Science is fun! This St. Patrick's Day, get your little scientists ready for fun home preschool science activities. Check out below for the instructions for this floating letters science experiment.
People are always faced with different situations in which decisions must be taken to lead to success or failure. Regardless of the decision, there is still learning for future cases. The best way to learn is through your own experience. That's why María Montessori created a pedagogy in which children develop their skills through their own experiences.
Montessori designed materials and different situations to implement in the classroom, all of these based on reality; that is, the same conditions that children experience in their daily lives. With a difference, these activities are designed according to children's abilities. Montessori identified that the only way children learn is when they do the tasks themselves through experiential learning.
Children cannot understand abstract concepts at an early age, so it is not a good alternative to try to develop children's intelligence with a master class. The best way to do it is by involving the senses in their learning, transforming all perceived stimuli into knowledge concretely.
Learning depends on the child's interest and motivation. If this interest does not exist, learning will most likely turn into a memorization process that is often quickly forgotten. One of the best ways to motivate children to discover new knowledge is to observe and understand each method through experiments. With hands-on experience and observation, children develop logical thinking, self-confidence, and social relationships. Thus, children will strengthen each of their abilities and achieve integral development.
THEME: PRESCHOOL SCIENCE ACTIVITIES
HOW DO WE DO THIS ACTIVITY?
Topic: Experience-based education
Age: 4-6-year-old children
Goal: Through this preschool science activity, children will strengthen their exploration and motivation to discover new things, developing their intelligence.
Difficulty level: Intermediate. This preschool science activity is designed for children to carry out autonomously and independently with an adult's surveillance.
Skills:
- Precision in hand and finger movements
- Eye-hand coordination
- Focus
- Self-reliance
- Autonomy
- Confidence
- Motivation
MATERIALS
- A container with orbezz
- A spoon
- Water in a container
- A glass
- A tray
- St. Patrick's Day note
PRESCHOOL SCIENCE ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT (ADULT SUPERVISION)
Step 1:
Use the spoon to put the orbeez into a glass.
Step 2:
Put into that glass the St. Patrick's Day note.
Step 3:
Add water to the glass.
Step 4:
Observe what happens.
ACTIVITY RESULT
St. Patrick's Day preschool science activity experiment
FREE PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS
After doing preschool science activities, give kids new worksheets. Click the link below to download
Download the Free Printable Worksheets
HOW TO DEVELOP THIS PRESCHOOL SCIENCE ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN OF OTHER AGES?
CHANGES FOR CHILDREN UNDER 4 YEARS OLD
This preschool science activity can be done with younger children. To reduce the difficulty level, children can use a larger spoon or place the jelly balls into the glass with their fingers. Children will develop their creativity and also strengthen their fine motor skills. In this way, a preschool activity appropriate to children's development and capacities is carried out.
CHANGES FOR CHILDREN OVER 6 YEARS OLD
This preschool science activity can be done with older children. To increase the activity's difficulty level, you shouldn't change the materials; children can use different colored jelly balls to see if it has the same effect. In this way, it will be carried out a science activity appropriate to children's development and abilities.
WATCH THE STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS HERE
VIDEO DESCRIPTION – FLOATING LETTERS PRESCHOOL SCIENCE ACTIVITY
In this preschool science activity video, you will find detailed information about the "FLOATING LETTERS" activity, designed for 4 to 6-year-old children. Here, they will experiment with materials that can be easily found at home. This preschool activity will allow children to develop precision in hand and finger movements, hand-eye coordination, focus, self-reliance, autonomy, confidence, and motivation. The materials are jelly balls, a spoon, water, a glass, a tray, and a St. Patrick's Day note. (Adult supervision)
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