Week One Water Activities

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Week One Water Activities
During the first week, as Mary and Jane began predicting the direction of the long-term study, they focused on moving water.

Figure: Teacher notes that read, "Activity: Channeling Water I. Materials: Large playground blocks, water channel modules, hose, wading pools and large tubs, ping pong balls and small cards, buckets, cups, and watering cans. Initial Setup: Two stacks of blocks, one higher than the other, with one water channel module bridging the two stacks, set up hose at tope so that water is flowing downhill, have other blocks and channeling modules nearby for later. Put wading pool at bottom of water channel to capture water. Introduction: Ask children what will happen when they put balls or cars on the top of the channel with the water running downhill. Advise them when pool at bottom is full, the hose will be turned off and no more water can be added. Exploration and Scaffolding: Facilitate/supervise free play with structure until pool is full. Ask them how they will get water back up to the top so play can continue. Encourage adaptation, addition of additional blocks, channeling modules, and water capture tubs/pools to make more complicated structures with additional water. Prediction: Children will make use of buckets, cups, etc. to take water out of pool(s) and pour back in at top to keep play going. Channeling Water II. Materials: Same as Activity I, small whiteboards and markers. Initial Setup: hook up tubing and pump to existing structure. Intervention: Demonstrate operation of pump to circulate water from bottom pool back to top of structure. Exploration and Scaffolding: Experiment with different ways to add blocks/channels to structure and observe how water moved with assistance of pump. Encourage children to use whiteboards to draw plans for water circulating structures/systems. Use additional blocks/water channeling modules to replicate plans. Prediction: Children will begin to experiment with changing elevations, degree of incline for water channels, etc. Water Table. Materials: Spray bottles, tubing, funnels, ping pong balls. Initial Setup: Set up water table. Intervention: None. See what happens.

Document what happens Mary and Jane review their notes and the drawings done by the children.’

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