Learning About Physics with Preschoolers
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This month's theme from Experience Early Learning (formerly Mother Goose Time) is Science Lab and this week the preschoolers are learning all about physics.
So far this week, we've talked about sound and light as well as force and friction.
Today's Experience Early Learning topic was gravity. They learned that it's an invisible “force.” We did several experiments with gravity.
One was dropping a rock and a pompom from the same height.
They all said the rock would hit first and they were astonished that they dropped at the same time!
We had fun dropping all kinds of things from the same height and from different heights.
They each made guesses as to what would hit the ground first. We also made pompom paintings by dropping them onto our paper.
It was another great week filled with lots of hands-on learning!
Don't forget to check back next week to see what we're up with our Science Lab theme from Experience Early Learning (formerly Mother Goose Time).