Explore Water – 3MB PDF
Designed for early childhood classrooms, this exploration unit invites children to explore water in the world around them. Indoors, use the water table to discover how water moves and the ways objects behave in water. Outdoors, explore puddles, raindrops, and waterways.
Watch the featured PEEP videos
After watching, encourage children to make connections between their own water discoveries and those shown on the videos. What ideas did the videos give them for new water explorations they might like to try?
PEEP story
The Fish Museum
Poor Fish Jr. wishes she could see the world above the water. Can Quack make her dream come true?
Kids Explore — Live-action videos
Making Rivers
A child creates a current of water by putting a hose into a pool. Then she observes how the current moves leaves and sticks.
Watching Water Move Things
In the woods, kids put different objects down a stream. At home, they create a stream with a hose.
Building Dams
Kids use bricks and sand to block a "river" of water.
Painting with Water
Kids paint with water on different surfaces and notice what happens to the water over time.
Making Things Float and Sink
Kids fill a wading pool and discover which objects float and which sink.
Making Boats
Kids make boats from everyday materials and watch them float. Then they figure out ways to make them sink.
Family Science Letters
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