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Water |
The properties of water and the water cycle |
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Listen to a story about the water cycle (the story of a drop of water traveling through the sea, up into the clouds, falling on the earth, absorbed by soil, into aquifers etc) |
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Water |
Playing in water |
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Observe the differences between flowing water and stagnant water. |
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Water |
Playing in water |
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Observe different densities of liquid (oil, water, honey). |
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Water |
Playing in water |
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Read some of the sayings from the Tao Te Ching that describe water's power - how it flows around obstacles, wears down rocks etc. Discuss in what ways water is strong, even though it seems weak, and in which ways we are sometimes like water. |
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Water |
Playing in water |
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Song - Shimshai "Pure, pure like the water". |
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Water |
Playing in water |
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Add some soil to water - and shake it up - use it as a metaphor to discuss how sometimes our mind gets full of thoughts and muddy or cloudy - and then when we are peaceful, it settles and becomes clear and pure again. |
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Water |
Playing in water |
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Paint with watercolors on wet paper, mixing colors as they spread into one another. |
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Water |
Playing in water |
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Play with water, e.g. at a water-table, practice pouring, floating. Reuse water by giving it to plants. |
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Water |
Playing in water |
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Make a waterfall wall - with different tubes and funnels attached to a board that children can pour water through. |
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Water |
Playing in water |
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Create and break dams. |
