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Cooking activities, even simple ones like this, are filled with great learning opportunities. Along with measurement and math skills, kids can develop problem solving and literacy skills as well. Also, by showing kids that they can make tasty drinks that are much more healthful than store-bought soda, you will provide an opportunity to talk about making healthy choices in their diets.
VIEW ACTIVITYHaving kids conduct test marketing for their sodas is a great way to work on oral and written literacy skills, data collection and analysis, tabulation and distinguishing characteristics of an object.
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Cooking activities, even simple ones like this, are filled with great learning opportunities. Along with measurement and math skills, kids can develop problem solving and literacy skills as well. Also, by showing kids that they can make tasty drinks that are much more healthful than store-bought soda, you will provide an opportunity to talk about making healthy choices in their diets.
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Having kids advertise their new creations will help them work on literacy and art skills, and also will cause them to think about the unique attributes of their soda. This kind of work is great for helping to develop critical skills like observing, distinguishing properties of materials, etc.
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Giving children the opportunity to get in touch with their senses can help make them better observers – a child who is tuned in not only to what they are seeing, but to what they are hearing, smelling, touching and tasting as well, is armed with a complete toolbox as they work to understand the world around them. Try this activity to help kids become more familiar with their sense of smell.
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At the beginning of the year, it’s always good to get an idea of where your students’ heads are. Having kids draw their silhouettes and then fill them in with their thoughts and ideas will not only give you insight into your students, but also will give them a chance to reflect on themselves and their own lives. Not only are children undergoing physical changes as they grow, but they are changing inside as well—repeating this activity at the end of the year, or even later, will give your students a chance to reflect on where they’ve been, where they are and where they’re going.
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Many of the activities in this curriculum rely on kids working together as a team. Engaging children early on in team-building activities such as this one can help to create a foundation for later team-based work in which collaborating together is critical to students’ success.
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Strawberries are an important (and delicious!) part of the summer harvest for the Wampanoag Tribal Nation. This activity introduces children to a recipe used by Native Americans in Massachusetts and across North America.
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In this activity, children will make beads out of scrap paper and string them together to make wearable art. These beads can be really beautiful, and aside from all that kids get out of this as an art activity, they will also be experimenting with patterns and shapes.
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Children’s bodies are undergoing constant change. By getting to know their own bodies better, these changes can be less mysterious. Children who are in tune with their own bodies can use all of their senses as tools as they explore and try to understand the world around them. This activity helps children learn more about their sense of touch, along with properties of objects, observation and descriptive vocabulary.
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Boston Children's Museum
308 Congress Street, Boston, MA 02210
617-426-6500
© Boston Children’s Museum 2024
Website Design by Jackrabbit