St Anne's RC Primary School - Reception Class - Our Science Learning Journey by Natalie Nickson https://padlet.com/natalie_nickson/rp059vxq7tnc Learning about magnetism, floating and sinking and properties of materials through Humpty Dumpty en-us 2017-11-19 15:34:54 UTC 2017-11-22 21:20:33 UTC hello@padlet.com 21.11.17 - What we know about magnets (during the initial carpet input): Only Charley said she had played with a magnet before - she said "you put things on a fridge with one". NN questioned whether it sticks to it or falls down and she said "sticks to it". When NN questioned whether every material was magnetic Zak said "no only some are". natalie_nickson https://padlet.com/natalie_nickson/rp059vxq7tnc/wish/209009362 2017-11-21 09:36:49 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_nickson/rp059vxq7tnc/wish/209009362 21.11.17 - What we know about floating and sinking (during the initial carpet input): Ava said that "when something sinks it goes right down to the bottom". NN questioned where something would be if it was floating and she said "near the top". The children did not have any knowledge that different ingredients could be added to water to cause something that sinks to rise and float. natalie_nickson https://padlet.com/natalie_nickson/rp059vxq7tnc/wish/209016335 2017-11-21 09:58:21 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_nickson/rp059vxq7tnc/wish/209016335 22.11.17 - What we learnt about magnets (final carpet input): When I held up an object that was part metal part plastic Archie pointed to the plastic part and said "that bit is not magnetic as it's not made of ..." (he couldn't find the word) - Ciara helped and said "it's because it's not metal". NN questioned whether their experiments showed that all metals are magnetic - all children shook their head/said no. NN asked which metal they tested that was not magnetic and Zak answered "foil". natalie_nickson https://padlet.com/natalie_nickson/rp059vxq7tnc/wish/209464500 2017-11-22 14:47:14 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_nickson/rp059vxq7tnc/wish/209464500 22.11.17 - What we learnt about floating and sinking (final carpet input): "If something sinks in water you can add salt to make it float" - Temi. natalie_nickson https://padlet.com/natalie_nickson/rp059vxq7tnc/wish/209465003 2017-11-22 14:48:35 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_nickson/rp059vxq7tnc/wish/209465003 21.11.17 - What we thought during the experiments (floating/sinking): The children thought that the oil was the most likely of all ingredients to make the egg float - in their reasoning they talked about it being thick and Mollie said "because you can cook eggs in it". They were all so excited to see the egg rise when we added salt. natalie_nickson https://padlet.com/natalie_nickson/rp059vxq7tnc/wish/209478150 2017-11-22 15:29:50 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_nickson/rp059vxq7tnc/wish/209478150 21.11.17 - What we thought during the experiments (magnetic/not magnetic): Skyla gave a good explanation of magnetic/not magnetic before the experiment. Most children were confident with the more obvious item of cloth not being magnetic but as expected most predicted that the tin foil would be magnetic so the misconception of all metals being magnetic (aluminium in this case) was addressed. Emil was especially surprised by the foil not being magnetic. natalie_nickson https://padlet.com/natalie_nickson/rp059vxq7tnc/wish/209478649 2017-11-22 15:31:11 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_nickson/rp059vxq7tnc/wish/209478649 21.11.17 - What we thought during the experiments (properties of materials): Most children predicted that the cotton wool would be the most protective. Micah said "the stones will be too hard". natalie_nickson https://padlet.com/natalie_nickson/rp059vxq7tnc/wish/209479389 2017-11-22 15:33:38 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_nickson/rp059vxq7tnc/wish/209479389 22.11.17 - What we learnt about properties of materials: Emilia was excited to tell me "I said that the rice would be best - I was right". We talked about the cotton wool being a little too soft, the stones being a little too hard and the rice being just right. natalie_nickson https://padlet.com/natalie_nickson/rp059vxq7tnc/wish/209483700 2017-11-22 15:49:01 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_nickson/rp059vxq7tnc/wish/209483700 Follow up in the continuous provision: Properties of materials - children selected different materials in the creative area to make a protective costume for Humpty Dumpty, using vocabulary such as "soft enough". Magnetic/non-magnetic - children explored and sorted a variety of materials in the tuff tray then extended this to testing items around the classroom and saying things like "it won't stick to the window as it's glass". Floating/sinking - playing with items in the water tray that float and sink as well as exploring water beads to observe absorption and mixing in salt and sugar to absorb dissolution. Items added that float and sink helped address the misconception that big things sink and small things float as we observed paper clips sinking and large pieces of wood floating. natalie_nickson https://padlet.com/natalie_nickson/rp059vxq7tnc/wish/209484574   ]]> 2017-11-22 15:51:40 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_nickson/rp059vxq7tnc/wish/209484574 21.11.17 - What we know about materials (during the initial carpet input): No-one knew what was meant by a 'material'. We discussed properties like soft and hard and Zak was able to point out the cotton wool I had "is very soft". natalie_nickson https://padlet.com/natalie_nickson/rp059vxq7tnc/wish/209486249 2017-11-22 15:56:27 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_nickson/rp059vxq7tnc/wish/209486249 New vocabulary we learnt: natalie_nickson https://padlet.com/natalie_nickson/rp059vxq7tnc/wish/209553001 Rise/rising - introduced when talking about the egg moving upwards in the water when salt was added.
Attract/attracted - introduced during the initial input and the magnets experiment when showing how it sticks to (is attracted to) magnetic materials.
Predict/prediction - introduced during each experiment - we talked about predicting being used when making a thoughtful guess in Science.
Experiment - introduced in the initial input as a Scientific test.
For some children we also introduced some new basic vocabulary to them such as the names of the objects and ingredients being used in each experiment. ]]> 2017-11-22 20:54:28 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_nickson/rp059vxq7tnc/wish/209553001