Learning Experiences
Here on the Learning Experiences page you can browse lessons, activities, open explorations, learning games, and more. Many of the learning experiences are appropriate for the inclusive classroom, too. Use any or all of the drop-down boxes to describe the kind of learning experiences that you need. Go to the Ohio's Early Learning Content Standards page to browse the standards and lessons that address them. Remember, you can also find what you need using the search box at the top right corner of the page.
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In this Pre-K activity children name things or animals that fly, discuss how they move, and categorize them into groups such as size, speed, living thing or machine. The activity is related to Double Tibble Trouble from the Arthur PBS TV series.
Topics: Science — Physical Science, Forces and Motion
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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In this activity for 3 - 5 year olds, children grow bean plants and explore the basic needs of plants with parents or teachers. Related children's literature includes Clarissa is Cracked from the Arthur series and One Bean by Anne Rockwell.
Topics: Science — Life Science, Characteristics and Structures of Life, Needs of Living Things, Plants and Animals
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities, Parent Resource
Ages: 3-5
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This web page describes simple activities to use with children after seeing the TV show episode, Arthur's Mystery Envelope, or listening to one of the Arthur books about the senses. In the activities, children try to identify unseen objects by using their senses of touch, hearing, and/or smell.
Topics: Science — Science and Inquiry, Inquiry Process Skills
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities, Parent Resource
Ages: 3-5
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In this water displacement activity, the children devise a plan to help the crow in Aesop's fable, The Crow and the Pitcher, raise the water level in the pitcher. First the children experiment using marbles to raise the level of water in a container.
Topics: Science — Science and Technology, Understanding Technology, Equipment, Tools, and Materials, Scientific Ways of Knowing, Scientific Processes (e.g. questioning, predicting), Physical Science, Materials Exploration
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities, Parent Resource
Ages: 3-5
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In this activity children explore the properties of air through a variety of simple, but fun activities. Teachers or parents could easily provide these experiences, because they would be adaptable to a home or classroom setting.
Topics: Science — Science and Inquiry, Inquiry Process Skills, Physical Science, Materials Exploration, Forces and Motion, Making Things Move
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 3-5
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In this activity children explore the characteristics and needs of plants through a variety of simple, but fun activities. Teachers or parents could easily provide these experiences, because they would be adaptable to a home or classroom setting.
Topics: Science — Life Science, Characteristics and Structures of Life, Needs of Living Things, Plants and Animals, Heredity
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 3-5
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In this activity children explore the five senses through a variety of simple, but fun activities. Teachers or parents could easily provide these experiences, because they would be adaptable to a home or classroom setting.
Topics: Science — Science and Inquiry, Inquiry Process Skills
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 3-5
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Children work in pairs using straws and a small ball to explore forces and motion. The resource includes a summary of the lesson, a How-To section with complete procedures for the lesson, and an assessment in the form of a rubric for evaluating the students' ability to communicate what they observed.
Topics: Science — Physical Science, Forces and Motion, Types of Forces (Contact and Noncontact), Making Things Move
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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In this activity, children have an opportunity to explore Newton's second law of motion by making and then launching a "rocket" fabricated from two straws and a paper cone. Each child sends the cone and short straw flying by blowing air into the longer straw.
Topics: Science — Science and Technology, Understanding Technology, Safety, Physical Science, Forces and Motion, Making Things Move
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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Building on young children's intense interest and curiosity about animals, this lesson focuses on inquiry-based research. Through the use of nonfiction, children research and learn about animals, sorting and documenting their findings using graphic organizers.
Topics: Science — Science and Inquiry. Reading and Language Arts — Research, Investigations, Gathering Information
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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You Can Find Great Children's Books on ORC
In addition to the books in the REC Bookshelf, the ORC K–5 Literacy Bookshelf has some great picture books you can use to explore language concepts.
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