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Tag Archives: measuring
All about animals
This is the closest I've ever gotten to a Madagascar hissing beetle.
Posted in Conferences Also tagged activity ideas, animals, assessment, classroom strategies, early childhood, elementary, insects, integrated, math, online resources, Philadelphia, resources, sessions Leave a comment
Science for all
My next-door neighbor is a lovely young woman, currently at the top of her junior class and gathering information on colleges. She’s interested in studying chemistry/chemical engineering (hooray!). I was reflecting on the opportunities she has that did not exist years ago when I was in her situation. Many colleges with strong science/engineering programs were [...]
Posted in SciLinks Also tagged activity ideas, biomes, ELL, Exploratorium, science for all, universal design 1 Comment
Pumpkin science
What’s happening in the early childhood world of Pumpkin Science? Have you planted and harvested pumpkins? Have you weighed, floated, cut-open, counted seeds, printed, or rolled pumpkins? Share your pumpkin science lesson here! Add a comment by clicking on the word “comment” below. Hint: write and save your comment in a separate document to cut [...]
Posted in Early Years Also tagged activity ideas, counting, early childhood teachers, math 3 Comments
Planting this fall for springtime blooms
I’m planning a fall gardening activity now, before school starts, and the first step is to mark my calendar to buy spring flowering bulbs before the end of September. Seasonal changes vary across the many climates in the United States. If you get temperatures below 40°F for extended periods of time, you can plant these [...]
Citizen science: collaborative projects for teachers and their class
I was excited to see a Monarch butterfly land on the Butterfly Bush in the yard (I hesitate to call it a garden). Does that mean that the Milkweed plant may yet become a home to Monarch caterpillars? I haven’t seen any eggs but there is still time. Maybe another insect has already staked a [...]
Connecting to the weather
Can you tell that it will rain soon by the way the air smells? Do you like the smell of snow? I like the way the air smells just as a badly needed rain begins—it makes me think of the earth exhaling as the water soaks in (but this could be a misconception on my [...]
Posted in Early Years Also tagged activity ideas, counting, math, nature of materials, weather 2 Comments
Classification
Snack sorting! It’s an interesting way to involve students in classifying and, while sitting together to eat, there is time to talk about why certain groupings were chosen. Children might sort by shape, create an ABAB pattern, and count the number of each snack shape. Classification is the theme for the March 2009 issue of Science and [...]
Posted in Early Years Also tagged activity ideas, assessment, counting, integrated, math, standards 3 Comments
Corn ears—examine and measure
“Why is corn used as a decoration in the fall in the United States?” asked a student’s grandmother. She is originally from Estonia where she said seasonal decorative include straw weavings, hung as symbols to bring a good harvest in the next year. I don’t know when it became popular to hang ears of multicolored [...]
Sink? Float? Try it with pumpkins
For an activity to explore buoyancy—what materials and which objects sink or float in water—I gave each child in a small group an object to hold. Then I explained that we were going to think about the objects and say where we think they will come to rest in a big tub of water—at the [...]
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