Children draw pictures and dictate captions about watching things fall, slide, or roll. They then share and discuss their pictures during Circle Time: Wrap-Up.
Draw pictures that show how objects fall.
Label the drawings. Why did they fall?
Materials
- Drawing paper
- Markers, crayons, or colored pencils
Preparation
- Circle Time: Wrap-Up. Select several captioned pictures of objects moving and falling that children created in the Learning Center, as well as pictures they created during the I Can Be a Ramp activity in Guided Small Group sessions.
Directions: Lesson 2
Learning Center
- Encourage children to draw pictures that show examples of gravity making things fall, roll, or slide down.
- Invite children to talk about their pictures. Use discussion prompts such as: Tell me about your picture. What force is making the (object) move? Which way is it moving? Write the child’s response as a caption on the picture.
- As appropriate, invite other children at the Learning Center to join the conversation, ask questions, expand on their classmates’ ideas, and make connections to their own pictures.
Circle Time: Wrap-Up
- Show several pictures drawn by children during the Learning Center activity and/or the I Can Be a Ramp Guided Small Group sessions.
- Discuss children’s art and read the captions aloud.
- Ask children if the pictures make them think of:
- Other things they know, or would like to know about how things fall, roll, or slide
- How to make things move
- Experiences they have had watching objects fall, roll, or slide
