Detailed Guidelines for Use
List of activities
Topic |
Activity |
Schema |
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Introductory activities |
A: |
Money Matters | |
B: |
Painted Doors | ||
Teeth and eating |
1.1 |
Grouping Foods |
Classification |
1.2 |
Animals and Teeth |
Causality |
|
1.3 |
Sandwiches |
Combinatorial thinking |
|
Helping plants grow |
2.1 |
Are they Seeds? |
Classification |
Materials |
3.1 |
Clothes to Wear |
Relationship between variables |
3.2 |
Classifying Materials |
Classification, seriation |
|
Rocks and soils |
4.1 |
Classification of Rocks |
Classification |
4.2 |
Composition of Soils |
Concrete modelling |
|
Magnets and springs |
5.1 |
Sorting Magnetic and Non-magnetic Materials |
Classification |
5.2 |
Strength of Magnets |
Relationship between variables |
|
5.3 |
Exploring Poles |
Concrete modelling |
|
5.4 |
Potatoes |
Causality |
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Light and shadows |
6.1 |
Shadow Stick |
Causality |
6.2 |
Make a Shadow Puppet |
Causality |
|
Conservation |
7.1 |
Conservation of Volume |
Conservation |
Materials | |||
The Let’s Think through Science! kit contains some of the materials that teachers will need for the activities. However, most activities use common materials that you will already have or could obtain or make easily and, in order to keep the cost of the kit down, these have not been supplied. |