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  1. School Readiness Activity Box: Scientific Thinking
    Go to Record #6722  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.readyatfive.org/images/pdfs/scientific_...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities, Parent Resource
    Ages: 0-5
    Topics: Science
    Commentary: This PDF booklet of science activities is packed with scientific thought and inquiry experiences for children. These activities foster important skills such as asking questions, making predictions, using the senses to gather information, organizing information, talking about their investigations, comparing things by talking about how they are alike and different, and using words to explain why something happened...


  2. Monster Fun: Learning the 5 Senses
    Go to Record #10772  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.bravemonster.com/lessonplansenses.htm
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: Science — Physical Science
    Commentary: In this lesson, Ken Baker, author of Brave Little Monster, offers children and their teachers a hands-on way to experience the five senses and asks them to discus's the life and sensory experiences of the fictional Little Monster in the story.  The teacher provides such items as a whistle, sandpaper, furry material, perfume, and candy as a reference point with which young children can identify. I had trouble finding the picture cards mentioned in the lesson plan, but it shouldn't be too hard to make some or let the children draw their favorite parts and then share them with the group during the lesson.  (nmb) ..


  3. Use Your Senses: Use Senses to Play a Guessing Game
    Go to Record #1049  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://pbskids.org/arthur/parentsteachers/activiti...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities, Parent Resource
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: Science — Science and Inquiry, Inquiry Process Skills
    Commentary: 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...


  4. Let's Think About Five Senses
    Go to Record #1374  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://pbskids.org/jayjay/care.curr.cl.l10.html
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: Science — Science and Inquiry, Inquiry Process Skills
    Commentary: 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...


  5. Animal Diversity
    Go to Record #3441  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?Benchma...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: Science — Life Science, Diversity and Interdependence of Life, Habitats
    Commentary: This lesson exposes children to a wide range of animals and guides them through observation of animal similarities, differences, and environmental adaptations. This lesson can be used as part of a study of plants and animals...


  6. Magnify It!
    Go to Record #3509  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?Benchma...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: Science — Science and Technology, Understanding Technology, Equipment, Tools, and Materials
    Commentary: In this investigation, children make observations with a magnifying glass, draw pictures to record their findings, and compare their observations with others in an open, non-judgemental environment. They get to speculate about and experiment freely with the lenses at various distances and "see" how things look...


  7. My Senses Tell Me ...
    Go to Record #3528  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?Benchma...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: Science — Science and Inquiry, Inquiry Process Skills
    Commentary: In this promising lesson planned for Prek-2nd grade, younger children can also learn about their five senses. This lesson encourages children to explore their environment using their senses, first in an open-ended way, and then in a more reflective way...


  8. Sound Bingo
    Go to Record #6340  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.teacherquicksource.com/headstart/activi...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: Science — Physical Science, Sound and Music
    Commentary: In this activity, children play a game of bingo by listening to a variety of everyday sounds and matching the sound to a picture on a bingo card. When making the sound bingo cards, the teacher writes the word "dog" under the picture of a dog...


  9. Green Thumb: Grow Beans from the Ground Up
    Go to Record #1048  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://pbskids.org/arthur/parentsteachers/activiti...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities, Parent Resource
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: Science — Life Science, Characteristics and Structures of Life, Needs of Living Things, Plants and Animals
    Commentary: 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...


  10. Let's Think About Plants
    Go to Record #1372  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://pbskids.org/jayjay/care.curr.cl.l8.html
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: Science — Life Science, Characteristics and Structures of Life, Needs of Living Things, Plants and Animals, Heredity
    Commentary: 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...


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