KG2 plan
Science plan
Unit 1:
Pepper and soap experiment
Materials: black pepper – soap – water – bowl or plate
Time: 30 min
Steps:
1. Cover the surface of the water with pepper.
2. Ask the students what they expect will happen when you drop
the soap in and why?
3. Then drip a drop of soap into the middle of the bowl (or put
soap on your finger and touch the middle).
4. The pepper swims away!
How interesting that adding soap to water can make it do something that
you didn't expect! Water has a surface that allows light-weight things to
float on it. This is how water bugs walk on water. But soap breaks this
surface tension, so when the water's "skin" scoots away from where it
was popped, the pepper goes with it!
KG2 plan
Invisible Ink with Lemon Juice
Materials: lemon (1/2) - Small Bowl - cotton swabs – Paper -
heat source (like a candle or an incandescent light bulb)
Time: 30 min
Steps:
1. Squeeze the juice of the lemon into a small bowl.
2. Using the cotton swab as a pencil,
write a secret message on the paper.
Then, let the paper dry completely.
3. Bring your heat source close to the paper and watch as your
secret message magically begins to appear!
Lemon juice is mostly made of a variety of sugars, acids, and water.
Normally, lemon juice is mostly clear, so when you dilute it even further in
water, and paint that mixture onto some paper, you can't see it. However,
heating up lemon juice causes some of its sugars to react with oxygen in
the air (oxidation), which turns these sugars
brown. Acids in the lemon juice can also react
with fibers in the paper to make more sugars,
which again turn brown in the heat. Your
invisible ink might seem like magic, but really,
it's all just chemistry.
KG2 plan
Unit 2:
Magnetic Treasure Hunt
Materials: Any metal toy or small tool (key/ coins/ paper pin) –
nonmagnetic objects – magnets - Basket to put treasure into - rice
Time: 30 min
Steps:
1. Put the materials together in the basket.
2. Let the student fish around with the magnetic in the rice to see what
they find.
3. s/he put the objects into her/his treasure basket.
4. When s/he pulled out 5 things ask him/her to count them .
Plant a seed in a bottle
KG2 plan
(seed germination experiment)
Materials: Paper Towels or cotton wool - Water - Seeds (sunflower, pea,
and green bean seeds) - Large jar or bottle
Steps:
1. Fill the jar with paper towels. Kids can fold them and push them down
into the jar. This is also great work for little hands.
2. Gently water your seed jar to wet the paper towels.
3. Carefully push seeds down into the paper towels around the edge of
the jar so they can still be seen. Make sure they are firmly held in place.
4. Put the jar in a safe place witch the sunlight can reach and check in
regularly to observe any changes.
KG2 plan
Unit 2:
Lava lamp
When you add the oil and water to your bottle, you’ll see that the water sinks to
the bottom and the oil sits on top. Try shaking up the bottle (don’t forget to put the
cap on) and see what happens. No matter how hard you shake, the oil and water
won’t mix together — they’ll always separate out again!
But there are ways that you can mix them up! Adding the fizzy tablet will create a
chemical reaction that causes carbon dioxide gas bubbles to form. Water droplets
will stick to the bubbles and hitch a ride to the top of the bottle. Once the bubbles
escape, the water droplets will sink back below the oil.
Materials: container - vegetable oil - water - food coloring - fizzy tablets
Time: 30 min
Steps:
1. Fill the container ⅘ full with vegetable oil.
2. Fill the rest of the container (almost to the top!) with
water. If the container is too full it might overflow
when you add the fizzy tablets!
3. Add a few drops of food coloring. They should sink to
the bottom of the container and color the water.
4. Break up a fizzy tablet (don’t cover the container)
and drop it into the container and watch your lava
lamp come to life!
KG2 plan
Observation of the seeds growth
What do you see in your seed jar?
You are looking for a root to pop out of the side.
Next, you are looking for a root to push down into the soil.
Then, you are looking for root hairs.
Next, look for the seed to push up while the root hairs push down.
Lastly, you are looking for the shoots to come up!
Our Seed Experiment Results
We started this experiment and within a few days started to see some
exciting things. It was also interesting to talk about what was happening
with the different seeds and how they changed over the duration of the
experiment.
Sunflower seeds were the fastest to pop a root but never made it out
of the jar.
Bean seeds took the longest to pop a root but finally did and made it
out of the jar.
Pea seeds grew rapidly once the root popped out and grew the tallest.
KG2 plan
Unit 4:
Baking soda and vinegar balloon
Materials: Large Balloon - White Vinegar - Baking Soda - Funnel - Spoon
Time: 30 min
Steps:
1. Before starting the experiment, you will want to stretch out the balloon
to make it more loose and easier to inflate.
2. Pour 1-2 spoons of baking soda into the opening of the balloon, using a
funnel. You’ll need to shake it a bit to get it down into the base of the
balloon.
3. Use the funnel again and pour some vinegar into the plastic bottle
4. Carefully stretch the opening of the balloon around the mouth of the
bottle leaving it hanging down until you are ready for the reaction.
5. When you are ready to see the chemical reaction happen, lift up the
balloon allowing the baking soda to fall down into the bottle
This is when the fun starts! Baking
soda and vinegar create an
awesome chemical reaction. The
gas from combining the two will
cause the balloon to inflate. The
more gas there is created, the
larger the balloon will get.