Links to More Sound Activities
Pre-K Science: Sound (PreKinders)
Teaching the Sense of Sound: nine easy to follow sound explorations.
Playdough to Plato: Learning About Sound
Learning about sound in the home and classroom. Ideas and activities written by a homeschool mother.
The Science of Sound (Scholastic)
Fun activities to help children discover how sound travel and how our ears pick it up.
Peep and the Big Wide World: Preschool Educators
This three week curriculum was developed for preschool educators. Many of the suggestions are easily adapted for library programs: From week 1: Read and Discuss The Listening Walk (Showers), go on a listening walk; Read and Discuss Max Found Two Sticks (Pinkney), explore and play with chopping sticks. From week 2: Read and discuss Oscar and the Bat (Waring), sing loud and soft, high and low. Week 3: Music and Sound books suggestions and activities.
Vermont PBS: Sound Explorations
A series of exploration designed to “help children understand vibrations are responsible for the sounds we hear.” Many of the explorations can be adapted for older preschoolers. Information includes links to QuickTime video and handouts, materials needed lists and easy to following instructions. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
Links to More Light and Shadows Activities
https://www.mass.edu/stem/documents/preschoolcurricular/CEES%20Curriculum%20Light%20and%20Shadows.pdf
LIGHT AND SHADOWS (Clarendon Early Education Services Special Preschool STEM edition) Activities for explorations indoors and out doors using both natural and man-made light sources.
https://mcpl.info/blogs/oh-thinks-you-can-think/light-and-shadow-preschool-science-and-math
Light and Shadow: Preschool Science and Math (Monroe County Public Library)
Exploration of light, reflection, and shadows, promoting discussions which build children’s and knowledge of the world.
http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2014/02/preschool-shadow-science/
Preschool Shadow Science (ALSC Blog)
Ideas for three shadow explorations: Exploring Shadow Size; Telling a Shadow Story; Exploring with Light Through Shadows.
https://scienceinprek.si.edu/science-light-and-shadows
The Science of Light and Shadows (Science in Pre-K, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum)
Three pages of information and exploration ideas: The Science of Light and Shadow; Open Explorations (Outdoor Shadows); Explorations (Shadow Puppet Theater and Outdoor Sundial).
http://kindergartenbasics.blogspot.com/2012/02/whats-that-shadow-game-activities.html
What’s That Shadow? (Kindergarten & Preschool for Parents & Teachers)
Recommend this to families and/or try the explorations with groups of children. Includes activities and book suggestions.
http://www.peepandthebigwideworld.com/en/educators/curriculum/family-child-care-educators/15/shadows/node/440/#act-441
Peep and the Big Wide World curriculum: Child ren Explore the Science of Shadows. Each section includes instructions, vocabulary and key science concepts for:
Outdoor Shadows; Indoor Shadows; Shadow Puppet Theaters.
Pre-K Science: Sound (PreKinders)
Teaching the Sense of Sound: nine easy to follow sound explorations.
Playdough to Plato: Learning About Sound
Learning about sound in the home and classroom. Ideas and activities written by a homeschool mother.
The Science of Sound (Scholastic)
Fun activities to help children discover how sound travel and how our ears pick it up.
Peep and the Big Wide World: Preschool Educators
This three week curriculum was developed for preschool educators. Many of the suggestions are easily adapted for library programs: From week 1: Read and Discuss The Listening Walk (Showers), go on a listening walk; Read and Discuss Max Found Two Sticks (Pinkney), explore and play with chopping sticks. From week 2: Read and discuss Oscar and the Bat (Waring), sing loud and soft, high and low. Week 3: Music and Sound books suggestions and activities.
Vermont PBS: Sound Explorations
A series of exploration designed to “help children understand vibrations are responsible for the sounds we hear.” Many of the explorations can be adapted for older preschoolers. Information includes links to QuickTime video and handouts, materials needed lists and easy to following instructions. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
Links to More Light and Shadows Activities
https://www.mass.edu/stem/documents/preschoolcurricular/CEES%20Curriculum%20Light%20and%20Shadows.pdf
LIGHT AND SHADOWS (Clarendon Early Education Services Special Preschool STEM edition) Activities for explorations indoors and out doors using both natural and man-made light sources.
https://mcpl.info/blogs/oh-thinks-you-can-think/light-and-shadow-preschool-science-and-math
Light and Shadow: Preschool Science and Math (Monroe County Public Library)
Exploration of light, reflection, and shadows, promoting discussions which build children’s and knowledge of the world.
http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2014/02/preschool-shadow-science/
Preschool Shadow Science (ALSC Blog)
Ideas for three shadow explorations: Exploring Shadow Size; Telling a Shadow Story; Exploring with Light Through Shadows.
https://scienceinprek.si.edu/science-light-and-shadows
The Science of Light and Shadows (Science in Pre-K, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum)
Three pages of information and exploration ideas: The Science of Light and Shadow; Open Explorations (Outdoor Shadows); Explorations (Shadow Puppet Theater and Outdoor Sundial).
http://kindergartenbasics.blogspot.com/2012/02/whats-that-shadow-game-activities.html
What’s That Shadow? (Kindergarten & Preschool for Parents & Teachers)
Recommend this to families and/or try the explorations with groups of children. Includes activities and book suggestions.
http://www.peepandthebigwideworld.com/en/educators/curriculum/family-child-care-educators/15/shadows/node/440/#act-441
Peep and the Big Wide World curriculum: Child ren Explore the Science of Shadows. Each section includes instructions, vocabulary and key science concepts for:
Outdoor Shadows; Indoor Shadows; Shadow Puppet Theaters.
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