Experiences for children from three years. Does it sink or drown?
Sink or swim - these are fun experiments forfor children aged three and up and a great idea for playing in the bath. You and your child will experiment and explore - what objects and why can float or sink. Also check out the autumn experiment for children.WE WILL NEED:If you are not playing in the bathroom, take a large container for water. Two smaller containers for sorting (one for sinking things, the other for floating things, it is better to label them) A box with different objects (plastic bottle caps, wine corks, a piece of paper, a piece of corrugated cardboard, a pencil, a stone, a plastic toy, a dish sponge, an iron key, a cotton swab, a piece of fabric, a Kinder Surprise egg, a shell, a leaf from a tree, a twig, a plastic spoon). HOW TO PLAY:
- Place one item in water for a while. Does it float or sink? Place the object in the appropriate labeled container.
- Talk about why some objects sank and others do not.
- Discuss the weight, size and material of the object, and how this affects swimming abilities.
- Talk about why there were bubbles when some objects sank.
- Try to tie a stone to an object that has not drowned and see if it drowns with the stone?
- Look around the house for several objects to check if they can swim.
- Find and read books about floating and drowning objects and their properties.
HOW IS THIS BENEFICIAL FOR CHILDREN?
- Speech development: Use descriptive words to express your ideas and opinions.
- We can make a connection with real life experience.
- Scientific thinking is developed: we make predictions, observations, comparisons, reasoning, collect data, conduct research and evaluation.
- Motor coordination and control develops
- Understand the cause and effect
- Concentration of attention
Show interesting experiments to children and they will develop and learn while playing)
