In your own program, observe children engaged in scientific inquiry in the sand center and the art center.Think about what the children are trying to figure out. What scientific concepts/principles are they investigating? For example:

• Are they exploring the proprieties of gasses, liquids, solids?
• Are the exploring the properties of plants, animals, people?
• Are the investigating weather and seasonal changes, e.g., the effects of rain, wind or snow?
• Are they exploring properties of light and colour, e.g., shadows, the use of magnifying glasses, or the use of prisms?
• Are the investigating the effects of using tools and machines, e.g., the effects of levers as in teeter-totters, inclines planes as in ramps, simple pulley, or densities of wood and the strength used in pounding nails?
• Are they investigating various effects that are due to gravity, magnetism, inertia, e.g., centrifugal force and centripetal force such as balancing blocks, winging, running up or downhill?

Note:Centrifugal force = the force tending to pull an object outward when it is rotating rapidly around a center. Centripetal force = the force tending to pull an object inward when it is rotating rapidly around a center.

When you provide examples, use the same format as used in the scenarios of Tyson (and the bubbles), Jasmine (and the worm), or Stevie (and the pumpkin).

Sand Play

What do you think this child was trying to figure out or investigate? What was the child learning from his/her scientific inquiry?

Art Area

What do you think this child was trying to figure out or investigate? What was the child learning from his/her scientific inquiry?