Children ages 3 to 5 years old are incredibly curious, inquisitive, enthusiastic bundles of energy who are so ready to absorb everything presented to them. If you plan exciting lessons, preschool-age children are always ready to learn. This is especially true of hands-on science experiments. Rather than teaching preschool-age children all the steps of the scientific process, I like to focus on teaching them two terms: prediction and observation.
For prediction, I ask the question “What do you think will happen if we (insert activity)?” Children can make whatever guesses they would like. As a teacher, you can record all the predictions on a marker board. For one or two children at home, you could record the responses on a chart (see below). For observation, I ask the question “What happened?” or “What did we see?” Again, responses can be recorded. Predictions and observations can then be compared. Were the predictions correct or incorrect?
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I love that anything we do with our child can be a learning experience. I also get nervous sometimes that I am teaching her bad habits too. 🙂 Oh motherhood is such a difficult job sometimes. haha
I totally agree – They are so ready to learn from us, we have to make sure we’re teaching them the right things, not the wrong things 😉
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