Series 271: Let's Find Out
Monday
Children are naturally inquisitive and want to know about the world around them. Experiences that encourage children to question how or why things happen are a science experience. This week in Play School we adopt a “finding out” attitude and explore our environment in a scientific way. Over the week we look at colours, magnets, batteries, flying, chemical reactions and movement. Through a mixture of play, observation, music and storytelling we “find out” together.
Children are continually developing skills in thinking, reasoning and observation. To help introduce science concepts and extend language skills, the presenters use appropriate science terms in a context to encourage their understanding. Open-ended questions are posed such as “What do you think would happen if...?”to extend thinking and encourage exploration.
Every day this week our resident scientist, Ruben, and a small group of children, conduct simple experiments - looking at how things dissolve, making a simple electrical circuit, making an object fly and observing chemical reactions and chain reactions caused by moving objects.
PRESENTERS
Andrew McFarlane - Emma Palmer
PIANIST
Peter Dasent
STORY
“Bears on Chairs” by Shirley Parenteau.
Used by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.
Copyright © 2009. All rights reserved Illustrations copyright © 2009 by David Walker.
Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA USA.
FILM
Baby Evangeline Has a Bath
(Play School, ABC)
ANIMATION
Here is the Sea
(Play School, ABC)
SONGS
Spots are Great
Composers: Peter Dasent & Mark Barnard
Publisher: Origin/Control
What Shall We Do?
Composers: Peter Dasent & Mark Barnard
Publisher: Origin/Control
All the Fish Are Swimming in the Water
Composer: Beatrice Landeck
Publisher: J Albert & Son
Splish! Splash! Splosh!
Composers: Peter & Robyn Mapleson
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
When I Was
