Name: Bailey Kavana

Activity Name: Will it roll? Age of Child: 3 years old

Setting: individual

Developmental Focus: cognitive

Key Content Focus: Science; physical science

Key Content Area Concepts: A ramp moves something from a high point
to a low point.

Key Content Area Skills: classifying, predicting

Learning Outcomes:
The child will be able to classify the different objects between whether or not
they roll.
11.A.ECd collect, describe, compare, and record information from
observations and investigations.
12.D.ECb explore the effect of force on objects in and outside the
early childhood environment.

Materials to collect/prepare:
Ramp
Pompom
Dice
Piece of sponge
Water bottle
Small bouncy ball
Quarter
Pen
Does roll/does not roll chart
Bee shaped eraser
Poem for warm up

Transition/warm up/introduction: My warm up is a poem about force. It

will talk about several types of force and what its used for. I may not do the
entire poem during my activity since it is quite long. I will say a line and have
the child repeat it after me.

Adult-guided Procedures:
1. First I will introduce myself and ask the child to repeat each line after I
say it of the poem.
 2. Next I will take out an object and ask if the child they think itll roll or
not.
3. Then I will have the child put the object at the time of the ramp and
observe if it rolls or does not.
4. Next I will have the child place the object on the chart under does roll
or does not roll.
5. Finally I will have the child draw a representation.

Child-guided Procedures:
1. First the child will repeat the lines from the poem after I say them.
2. Next the child will take one object at a time and tell me if they think itll
roll or not.
3. Then the child will place it at the top of the ramp and observe if it rolls
or not.
4. Then the child will place that object on the chart given under does
roll or does not roll
5. Finally the child will the child will draw a representation of what they
learned during the activity.

Conversation to Support Learning/Talking with Children:

What do you think will happen with this object when we put it at the
top of the ramp?
Can you tell what happened with that object?
Tell me about why you think this object did.
Tell me about why you think this object did not roll.
Could we do something to make it roll?
What will happen if we move the object this way?

Observations and Assessment: I will see the child classifying the different
objects into the categories does roll or does not roll on the chart given to
them.
11.A.ECd collect, describe, compare, and record information from
observations and investigations.
12.D.ECb explore the effect of force on objects in and outside the
early childhood environment.

Accommodations for individuals:

Scaffolding down: I will put the objects at the top of the ramp for
them if I see that they do not understand.

Scaffolding up: I will add a few more items that may not be as easy
to predict.

Resources:
Force Poem. (n.d.). Retrieved July 25, 2016, from
http://sciencepoems.net/sciencepoems/force.aspx#.V5Kv8JMrKGQ

Ramps in the Science Center - PreKinders. (2007). Retrieved July 25,

2016, from http://www.prekinders.com/ramps-in-the-science-center/

2013 Illinois Early Learning and Development Standards. (n.d.).

Retrieved July 25, 2016, from
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/ields/benchmarks.htm

Force
Push and pull,
Through friction of course,
To make things move,
You gotta' use force!
Forces, forces,
Are really first-rate,
They get objects moving,
Accelerate!
Forces are cool,
They work with a pulley,
Don't use it to fight,
Don't be a bully!
A rocket needs force,
To fly to the moon,
A car uses force,
To get us there soon,
A smile takes force,
To show off our teeth,
A knife needs some force,
To slice up some beets...
A horse uses force,
To win a horse race,
Without any force,
We're stuck in one place!