I need a quick science activity for 4-5 yr olds....anyone have any ideas?

Question

Needs to involve 4 -6 students per setting and be entertaining...help me please?

Answer 1

Have the children sit in a circle. Pass an ice cube around the circle as you play some quiet music. Children will sit anxiously waiting for their turn to hold it and pass it along. Every few minutes you stop the music and the child holding the ice will share with the group what is happening to it. Then you start the music again and it continues to go around the circle. This gives the children the opportunity to discover that ice will melt. You can then discuss why the ice melted  (heat) and what we can do so that our hands will not get cold. (wear gloves) I do this lesson with my class each year and they really enjoy it.

Answer 2

you can have a bowl of icecubes and use salt to let them stick together you can make wonderfull sculptures... then experience cause and effect as it melts. You can also add foodcoloring or poor warm water over the ise and wathc it melt....

Answer 3

Show them the effect of combining acids and bases...baking soda with vinegar.

Answer 4

try searching on the Internet for some idea and maybe a website that can help you.

Answer 5

have them go out side and get 3 different leaves  and show them that each leaf is different.

Answer 6

Milk of magnesia with different fruit juices. For example with cranberry juice is turns blue.

Answer 7

4-5 year olds want to know why.  They ask their parents why ALL THE TIME.  Exploring the five sensesis fun, easy and the kids can rotate to several small activities, or can spend a week tying it all together.  A table for tasting (stick to the sweet, salty, sour, and bitter it will make it easier for them to understand the difference between taste and smell later), a table for smelling (a small cloth soaked in a scent in a baggie does the trick, a tabe for seeing and one for touching.  As for hearing, do it all together at the end with several different sounds of different volumes.  Just help the kids associate each sense with its major organ and have fun, they will learn more that way.  You can also do one sense for ten minutes a day, wear a costume (comically large) version of the organ for each sense and talk about and show examples.  You can have the kids put a small sticker on or near their sense organ so they remember and it will help them to talk about it later. (There are some stickers like scratch amd sniff and fuzzy ones that can be germain as well).  Hope that helps.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Is it warm there? How about a scavenger hunt outside. Should be fun!

Answer 10

If you have an over head projector you can make a rainbow.

You need a square plastic or glass dish that is clear. put a sheet of paper on the upper lens.set the dish on the over head projector  and turn it on,it should show a rainbow on the ceiling.

Hope you have fun!

Answer 11

Do the starch-to-sugar thing. Have them each chew on a little bit of bread or saltines and have them notice how it will taste sweet in a minute as the saliva turns the starch in the crackers to sugar. Don't let them spit on each other though. ;-)

Answer 12

Make "Oobleck" all you need is cup of cornstarch and a few table spoons of warm water.  Kids LOVE feeling it.  It is a solid/liquid mixture.  When you let it sit in your hands it is very runny but when you start to form it, it turns solid like.  Oobleck can be made after reading Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss.  Try it out for yourself it is a lot of fun to play with.  I teach first grade and I made it to teach a lesson on solids and liquids.  What ever you choose make sure it is hands on.  Kids love it at that age.

Answer 13

Make toothpick masts and business card sails for matchbox boats and blow them along on a sea in a washtub.

Explain the effects of winds on sails, etc.

If you want art, too, you can color the sails beforehand.

Answer 14

http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/vide...

This site has lots of ideas. Just look for one age appropriate.  My class loved the mentos soda explosion.

http://www.everythingpreschool.com/

This site has science activities for any theme you are doing.

I hope this helps.

Answer 15

Trying mixing colors. Thats always fun for young children.

Answer 16

http://www.weatherwizkids.com/tornado1.h...

http://scienceclub.org/proj/kidproja.htm...

http://www.preschooleducation.com/scienc...

http://www.first-school.ws/theme/science...

http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexper...