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The goal of Thing-Go Bingo is to have young detectives observe closely, look longer, make predictions and record their findings. This activity not only focuses on observing local environments and data collection, but also provides a chance for your students to build other skills like pattern recognition, problem solving, and communicating.
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Building and perfecting their own spinning tops provides a great opportunity for children to develop the kinds of skills that are so important in engineering and science discovery—problem solving, estimating, observing and more. In addition, this activity offers kids a chance to learn more about variables—things you can change in a design or an experiment that will change the outcome of that experiment. For more on variables, see Suggestions.
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With all of the expertise your students have gained working with tops, there is one more variable for them to experiment with—the weight of their tops. Will heavier or lighter tops spin longer? Only time (and some serious top-making) will tell!
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Now that your students have experimented with some of the basic design elements of homemade tops, they can play around with a new variable — the width of the plate used to make their tops. Will a top made with a wider plate spin longer, not as long or the same amount of time as a narrower top?
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Children get too few chances to experiment with materials and to design and build objects of their own creation. These Raceways and Roller Coasters activities allow your students these opportunities, and engage them on many different levels as well. Building these tracks and rolling marbles down them help children to develop problem-solving and teamwork skills and touch upon some basic principles of physics like energy, acceleration and momentum.
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Understanding basic circuits comes from experience, and many children haven’t had that experience. But once your students have mastered the basics of lighting a light bulb with a battery, there are limitless possibilities to the kinds of investigations they can engage in. This activity expands your students’ investigations by focusing on new ways of wiring and introducing a holiday tradition from the Southwest U.S.
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Children get too few chances to experiment with materials and to design and build objects of their own creation. These Raceways and Roller Coasters activities allow your students these opportunities, and engage them on many different levels as well. Building these tracks and rolling marbles down them help children to develop problem-solving and teamwork skills and touch upon some basic principles of physics like energy, acceleration and momentum.
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Children get too few chances to experiment with materials and to design and build objects of their own creation. These Raceways and Roller Coasters activities allow your students these opportunities, and engage them on many different levels as well. Building these tracks and rolling marbles down them help children to develop problem-solving and teamwork skills and touch upon some basic principles of physics like energy, acceleration and momentum.
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Much of the food we eat started out as something else. Bread comes from wheat, ketchup comes from tomatoes and butter comes from milk. The process by which these foods are created is often a mystery to children, and by experimenting with making their own versions of these foods, they can begin to understand and have a greater appreciation for the fuel they are putting into their bodies.
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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 will help children to get better acquainted with their heart rate.
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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