Winter or other science activity for preschool class?

Question

I am looking for a fun and relatively easy science activity to do with my 4-5 yr. old preschool class. Does anyone have any good ideas?

Answer 1

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she has 20 yrs exp in education and had lived in hot and cold climtes. she also produces lesson plans once a week with different themes they are really great as they show circle,. story, science, sensory, fine, gross, art, music and how much they will cost. very complete give it a try. she lists about 4 arts within the plans as well as the rest.

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Answer 2

A wonderful and exciting activity is nature. Animals where do they find there food when most all the leaves , Berry's have gone. When they find it do they eat it all up ? So where do they put it ? This is for all types of wild life , Birds , Deer anything in nature yo can think of. Draw a picture on construction paper place each animal on it each child has 3 animals finding food and where to eat it up or where do they store it. Child must glue food examples , hiding places or say eat it up. Make the Construction paper drawing look as natural to nature as you can, draw pictures, gather glue grass have a great time being involved in nature during winter time. Can get Mom and Dad to help on ONE thing a facts sheet Books --Authors to prove the animals do eat these things and do actually hide them there or eat them up to not have any surplus.

Answer 3

How about freezing a big block of ice, have the children put salt on it and see if it melts faster than without salt.

I also do an experiment where I have two jars of water- one really hot the other super cold. Then I drop a dropper of food coloring into each and watch what each does.

( In the hot water- the color swirls quickly and disapates.

In the cold water it barely moves and it doesn't mix  up.)

It has to do with how molecules move faster in hot water.

Answer 4

we did a hot and cold unit - had a spring bunny that was brown and a white winter snow hare - we just covered square kleenex boxes with brown and white paper and added ears.  We cut a hole in the front and then had cards of hot and cold things - the children sorted them - the hot cards went in the spring bunny - the cold things went in the winter bunny.  cute!  

Put ice in your sensory table and then add food coloring with eye droppers  and some salt - it's amazing how it melts into the ice - our kids love it.

Answer 5

I taught mostly in san diego, ca and so no real winter there, but we always did both a winter unit in the "winter" and one in the summer (a little play on words and a really fun way to cool off) here are some of the favorite acitvities......

1) have someone truck in some "snow" if you dont have your own..(a local ice house brought us a bunch of shaved ice that was the greatest "snow" most of our children had ever seen....and it lasted several hours.

2) ice painting...with either ice and powdered paint (best this way for older children) or done with ice and food coloring or water paint, but can also be done with tempra paint.

3) making cold or frozen treats that they can eat later is always a fun task....Ive done frozen fruit sorbee (like shaved ice from fruit), sno cones, ice cream, and smoothies all are fairly easy to do and kids love them

4) there are tons of books like: snowy day, the mitten, frosty and other snowmen tales, the snow child, and stories of hibernation all of which can be done in felt or flannel board stories to some extent.

5) making snowmen and women can be fun too....try with cutting shapes (circles) and making "clothes" for them, there are some paper dolls (of snowmen/women) too, they can also be made with cottonballs, playdough(also fun to make), and in the "real" snow you may have or get.

6) and of course there are all of the hot/cold, melting experiments you can do both inside and outside

have fun

Answer 6

find some fallen leaves around the school, let the kids pick 5 leaves each.  then let them dry out and they can paint them or put them on paper and trace them.   or find some flowers, let them dry out and make a  small container, let them smell the scent....buy some seeds, either flowers, plants or food items, and let them plant them in a coffee can or jar and watch them grow