Category: Science

  • Shadow Puppets

    Your Child Will Learn

    Exploring light and shadow with puppets

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Turn a flashlight on and turn the lights out. Use your hands to make a shadow on the wall, and talk about what’s happening. (You can
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  • Building Fun

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to use different materials to build a structure

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather building materials from around the house (cereal boxes, cans, plastic containers, straws, egg cartons, paper towel tubes, etc.).
    2. Place the materials on
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  • Inside Our Bodies

    Your Child Will Learn

    Names of internal body parts and how they function

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Cut out the body part pictures (optional: your child can color them first). 
    2. Put a piece of tape on each of the pictures.
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  • Bubble Chase

    Your Child Will Learn

    To observe the effect wind has on bubbles

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Head outside with a bottle of blowing bubbles. Pick a starting point and put something there to mark it (a ball, a water bottle, etc.).
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  • Build-A-Track

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to build a simple machine that changes the speed and direction of objects

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather a bunch of materials to build a toy race track (examples: cardboard boxes, toilet paper/paper towel rolls,
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  • Three Little Pigs Building Challenge

    Your Child Will Learn

    Investigating characteristics of Earth’s materials

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Read or tell your child the story of the Three Little Pigs.
    2. Head outside to a park, backyard, or other green space. Bring a small figurine or
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  • Creature Scavenger Hunt

    Your Child Will Learn

    Observing the characteristics of animals and considering how they are similar/different

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Head outside to a park, backyard, or other green space. Bring a camera or smartphone if possible.
    2. Search for these (hint:
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  • Plant Scavenger Hunt

    Your Child Will Learn

    About the features of plants and trees

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Head outside to a park, backyard, trail or other green space.
    2. Search for these parts of trees and plants:
      1. Leaf
      2. Flower
      3. Trunk/Bark
      4. Seed/Nut
      5. Stem
      6. Fruit/Berry
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  • Baking Transformations

    Your Child Will Learn

    To observe the physical changes that happen to ingredients while baking.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Choose a favorite family baking recipe that’s special to your culture, such as making tortillas, pita or naan, or a special
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  • Cooking Rice

    Your Child Will Learn

    Observing how a non-living object can change

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather the supplies you need to make rice (using whatever method your family usually uses).
    2. Before cooking, observe the rice and the water.  Ask your
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