Last week we worked on the first part of our Water Cycle study which is all about water. The objectives of this study are the following:
- Define the states of matter using water
- Discover the properties of water
- Analyze the water cycle
WATER
Water illustrates the three states of matter: solid (ice), liquid (water) and gas (steam). The presentation includes a glass of water, a bowl of ice and a cup of hot water (steam is not visible in the picture). Mavi explored the three states, touching feeling and tasting (we waited for the hot water to cool down).
“Mom, they don’t have a taste!”
Yes, because water is tasteless, odourless and transparent.
EXPLORING THE PROPERTIES OF WATER
Then we discuss what makes the water liquid, solid and gas. I pointed out that temperature affects the state of the water. If the temperature is low (and freezing), the water turns into ice (solid) because the molecules that in the water does not move around as much. Thus they form into crystalline (rigid) structure which turns it into ice. As seen on the photos below, we made ice… and took a photo of before and after exposing the water to low temperature.
I asked Mavi to look for a spot in his body that can melt the ice easily. One, he ate some ice…. and then another he put some in his underarm LOL. Try this with your kids!
For water turning into gas, that’s because it is exposed to a hot or high temperature with molecules moving very fast with large spaces between molecules. Here I showed Mavi how to produce steam.
WATER CYCLE
I conducted a simple demonstration of how water cycle works. You can read about it here.
WATER PHASES SORTING CARDS
You can download our free water form cards which we used to sort out whether the water form is in solid, liquid or gas state.
Linking to:
Montessori Monday
TGIF Linky Party
Teach Beside Me
Preschool Corner
Teaching Mama
I Can Teach My Child
Home + School = Afterschool!
Share It Saturday
The Natural Homeschool
I love your water cycle study! The one we had during our weather unit was a HUGE hit, and still gets talked about. I think it's so funny that in a world of ice makers, it's a big deal for kids to be able to see the water turn in to ice in the ice trays lol :) My children thought it was the grandest thing! :)
ReplyDeleteHi Amy! Mavi also thought it was the grandest when we took out the ice tray and he sees ice instead of water :) A simple activity but it really is BIG deal for kids!
DeleteI love this so much! I really need to start adding more science activities to our tot school, but I can definitely adopt these ideas for my two year old! I'll be pinning and sharing on facebook :))
ReplyDelete