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Gravity - Curriculum Planning Ideas - Coggle Diagram
Gravity - Curriculum Planning Ideas
Sensory
Play with Bubbles outdoors and try and catch them
Move magnets around to show how the ground holds us down
drop paint into shaving cream to show how it makes colours
Pom Pom water table play, where we will drop pom poms in the water and see them defy gravity and float.
Toss clothing pins into a large bucket and see how many go in. This shows the power of gravity
Make our own growing class plants to show how they grow up and defy gravity even though they are planted to the ground
show kids how to make a waterfall
Music
Play and dance to the Gravity song by Zorbits
Play Gravity Always Brings Me Down | PBS KIDS
throw balls and let them hit the ground making sounds
Sing space songs
dance and jump to the song Jump! by Patty Shukla
Exercise to the song Jump Up, Bend Down by The Learning Station
Drama Play
Pretend we are doing out own space walk
dress up as astronauts
Play Simon Says- space edition
Library and Listening
Teach children how butterfly's fly
Teach children how rockets fly
Read Gravity by Irene Chan
Ready how do we stay on earth by Amy Hansen
have a map with space planets on it
Have little stuffed stars around the carpet
have a round carpet that looks like the planet earth
Small Groups
Bring in a show and tell
Pretend to be a rocket and see how far you can jump as a team
Play the hot potato game
Play the parachute game
play as a group with a balloon and not let it touch the ground
Creative Art
Blow paint through a straw across a paper
Make a Paper Butterfly
Make Paper Planes
draw yourself how you would look as an astronaut
Shelf Toys
fit the ball down the tube toy
Toy pick up trucks
add soft books about the start in the sky
Box with little toy stars, spaceships, astronauts and balls