1. Spinning Tops
Concept: Use these toys as tools to explore motion.How to support exploration: Ask your child open-ended questions (questions with more than a yes or no answer). How hard do you have to push each type of top before it begins to spin? Are light or heavy tops easier to spin? Are tall or short tops easier to spin? Can a top with a penny taped to it maintain a spin?
from:http://families.naeyc.org/learning-and-development/music-math-more/toys-tools-everyday-science-experiences
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2. Magnifiers
Concept: Tools can extend our senses, allowing us to obtain more information than we would be able to on our own. Magnifiers extend our sight by making objects look bigger.
How to support exploration: This tool is fun to use to make the world look blurry and our eyes look huge, and to look closely at everything! Magnifiers reveal aspects of nature that are too small to see with just our eyes. Examine skin, coins, flower structures, and insects—all objects with small parts that make up the whole.
Variation: Fill a round, clear plastic jar with water and have your children look at their hands or a picture through the jar. Children often notice the change in apparent size. Ask them, “Did your hand look bigger?” Then let them examine it and ask, “Did my hand really get bigger, or did it just look bigger?” Take another look so children can be certain of their answer. Have your children pinch the lens of a magnifying glass between two fingers and gently run their fingers across it to notice that the magnifier is not flat but has a curved surface, just like the jar!
Where to purchase: Drug stores and discount stores sell inexpensive plastic magnifiers, or you can order them from a scientific supply company.
from:http://families.naeyc.org/learning-and-development/music-math-more/toys-tools-everyday-science-experiences
3. Balls
Concept: Use balls of the same size but differing weights to explore how the mass (what we feel as weight) of an object affects its motion.Where to purchase: Buy a variety of balls at toy stores, drug stores, and discount stores in the toy or sports sections.
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4. Mirrors
How to support exploration: Bounce light off of different
surfaces. A large plastic “baby” mirror, held freely, is especially good
for this. Have your children use mirrors to look behind themselves.
“Catch” some sunshine and reflect it to another surface outside or
inside. Children can use a mirror to examine their face to draw a
self-portrait. Children are more likely to draw from the observations
they see in the mirror and not from memory if they are encouraged to
focus on parts of their face they don’t usually begin with, such as
their nostrils. Ask, “Do you see the holes in your nose? How many are
there?”
Where to purchase: Buy mirrors at a pharmacy or dollar store.
“Baby” or designed-for-preschool plastic mirrors can be ordered from
preschool, or scientific, education supply companies.
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