Category: Scientific Concepts

  • Snacks in a Bottle

    Your Child Will Learn

    Problem solving and fine motor skills

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Let me watch you put a piece of cereal or other small snack into a small clear container with a narrow opening (like a spice bottle). 
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  • Where Is It?

    Your Child Will Learn

    Object permanence: objects still exist even when they are hidden

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Move your face or a favorite toy behind a cover (like: your hands, a blanket, a box).
    2. Uncover your face or the
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  • Push and Pull

    Your Child Will Learn

    When more or less force is needed to move an object

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather a laundry basket/cardboard box and objects of different weights to put inside (books, cans, water bottles, toys, shoes, etc.).
    2. Ask
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  • Water Color

    Your Child Will Learn

    Making predictions and conducting a simple experiment

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Invite your child to draw with markers or chalk on a piece of paper.
    2. Fill a spray bottle with water, and ask your child to
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  • Fort Building

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to use tools and materials to solve an engineering problem

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Ask your child to think of what materials they would need to build a fort. Gather the materials from around the
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  • Let’s Make a Hanger Balance Scale!

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to measure weight with a simple balance scale

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Make your hanger scale. Use scissors or a hole punch to make two small holes on opposite sides of the top of a
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  • Kitchen Sensory Play

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to use all 5 senses to observe cooking ingredients

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Choose 3-5 ingredients in your kitchen that have different textures (examples: salt, sugar, rice, pasta, beans, lentils). Place each one in its
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  • Magnet Predictions

    Your Child Will Learn

    The scientific process and an introductory understanding of magnets

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Find a magnet (like one from the fridge). Gather a bunch of small objects made out of different materials (examples: stones, shells, coins,
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  • Night Sky Journal

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to make and record scientific observations by drawing

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Before bedtime, head to a window with a view of the night sky (or head outside). Direct your child’s attention to the sky.
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  • Night Sky Noticing

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to observe and describe things in the world around them

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Before bedtime, head to a window with a view of the night sky (or head outside).
    2. Direct your child’s attention to
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