At Little Darlings we try to create an environment that enables scientific thinking as well as the opportunity to have time, space, and materials to exercise their curiosity. This environment results in children freely engaging in child-centered explorations, experimentations, and explanations.
This happened today when the children wondered how they could make the boats move faster in the water tray.
To answer this, the educator avoided giving facts or stating rules. The questions posed invited more reflective thinking and further experimentation on the children’s part. In fact the findings of the experiment were the children’s not the educators.
The children became engaged in investigation by using various materials to answer their question. One material was the spray bottle.
The children observed how the boats began to move when sprayed with water, they also predicted the boats would move quicker if they sprayed faster.
The prediction was tested and to the children’s delight it was correct.
Science can occur naturally in play based situations, In this area of play the children made observations and predictions, this developed the child’s ability to build theories and testing their theory.
This is what science is all about!
