SCIENCE CONCEPT PLANNER

Classroom: Ms. Banks (Pre-K)

Date of Development: 2-22-16

Experience: Water with

soap and bubbles
OELDS: Motor
Development:
Demonstrate complex oral
motor skills.
Experience: Water, oil, and
food color mixing
OELDS: Approaches to
Learning: Develop, initiate
and carry out simple plans
for a goal.
Experience: Floating and
sinking different objects
OELDS: Approaches to
Learning: Ask questions to
seek explanations.
Experience: Activity with
solids, gases, and water
OELDS: Cognitive General
Knowledge: Collect data by
categories to answer simple
questions.

Experience: A bathing
station with dolls-brush their
teeth, wash their hair, etc.

Experience: A small dinosaur

world with underwater
animals.

OELDS: Approaches to
Learning: Use prior
knowledge to assess, inform,
and plan.

OELDS: Approaches to
Learning: Use imagination
and creativity to interact with
Experience: Polly Pocket
pool party.

Concept
Concept
Reactions:
-Floating
-Mixing
-Sinking
-Rust
-Mold

Concept

Uses: Swimming,
Science Topic bathing, drinking,
Water
cooking

Experience: Raining sponge

experiment.

Reference materials
are used to
Concept
identify/inform
the topic.
Precipitation:

Properties:
-Pouring
-Takes shape of
containers
-Can mix
-Phase between solid
and gas

Experience: Pouring with

different shaped containers
and seeing how it takes any
shape.
OELDS: Approaches to
Learning: Carries out project

OELDS: Approaches to
Learning: Engage in
inventive social play.

-Rain, snow,
sleet, hail, fog

Experience: Boiling and Freezing

OELDS: Cognition and General
Knowledge: Make careful
observations.

OELDS: Motor
Development: Regulates
reactions to external
sensory stimuli.
Experience: Cloud in a jar.
OELDS: Cognition and
General Knowledge:
Understanding of relative
positions.
Experience: Rain cloud
science experiment.
OELDS: Approaches to
Learning: Focus on activity
with concentration despite
distractions.