Monday- What is Water?
Guiding Question to Discover Today: What is Water?
Story:
Sensory:
Expansion idea: If you have a bigger bin or water table, move materials to it for more play space. Add more PVC pipes for more building fun! The ones provided are from Lowes. I bought long pipes and cut them into pieces with PVC pipe cutters.
Science Experiment:
Need a Challenge? Before beginning, follow the scientific method like a real scientist! Record the method in your journal.
- Question: Which ingredients will dissolve in water?
- Hypothesize: Predict which ones will dissolve and which ones will not.
- Experiment: Conduct the experiment.
- Observe: Draw/write what you see.
- Analyze: Determine what dissolving in water looks like.
- Conclude: Tell which ingredients dissolved and which did not.
Not Ready Yet? Choose just 2 ingredients to dissolve instead of 5. Look, touch, and smell the mixtures in both cups. What do you see? How does the water feel? Do they smell the same or different?
Gross Motor:
Art:
Need a Challenge? Play around with mixing the colors. Can you make these colors? Orange. Lime. Violet. Jade. Pink. Brown.
Not Ready Yet? If your child is having difficulty using the pipette, provide them with a small scoop to mix the colors instead.
Make Paint Popsicles for Thursday:
- Combine the mixed colors to make seven paint popsicles (use 7 popsicle sticks provided.)
- If your child is anything like mine, you will likely have all brown colors when your child is finished. Empty some of these browns out and remake some colors for a more vibrant painting experience on Thursday!
- Add a couple extra drops of liquid watercolor to each cube to ensure the paint will show up on your child's paper on Thursday
- Put the ice cube tray in a rectangular dish before putting in your freezer
- Freeze overnight. Remove from ice cube tray and carefully place in another container or gallon sized plastic bag. Put back in freezer until Thursday. The ice cube tray will be reused on Tuesday.
great first day! So much fun!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad it was a great day!
DeleteWe had lots of fun, too. Quick question, how many drops of the watercolors for the frozen paints? Ours seemed to freeze funny and when I went to pull them out, all the color concentrated to center of the cube. It was almost like oil and water. They separated! Maybe we were a little too conservative with the drops. I treated it like food coloring and only put in a very small drop or two.
ReplyDeleteHmm... that is odd! I have done this project many times and I have never seen the colors separate like you describe! Sounds like a good science experiment to me. :)
DeleteI would add more drops and make sure you mix it. When you mix it the colors should be pretty vibrant. The more vibrant it is the the better they will show up on paper. I probably added at least 8 or 9 drops for a lighter color. A darker color would need at least 12 or so!
That would explain it! I think I put three-four drops total! :). I saw we needed the colors for several experiments, so I might have been a little too conservative.
DeleteWhat a great first day!! We had a blast!
ReplyDeleteLoved it! The PVC pipes are the new favorite toy in the house 😁
ReplyDeleteThe kids wondered what the water will do through the tubes and how it will move through the tubes. Zalen wondered how water makes bubbles. Both kids thought the sprinkles and flour would dissolve. Both kids thought the sugar and oil would not dissolve. Brynlee thought the salt would dissolve and zalen thought it would not. They liked making the water have different pressures in the tubes and noticed the more water you pour in the more pressure the water had. They put a ball in the tube and if you poured water slowly in the tube the ball had a hard time moving through the tubes but if you poured water faster it would move fast through the tubes.
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