Topic outline
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KINDERGARTEN - EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCES
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An introduction to the Kindergarten package and its contents.
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A list of equipment needed for each activity within the PALMS Kindergarten package. To assist you with planning and preparations.
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Students explore rocks to learn about texture, size, colour, shape and buoyancy.
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Students make pet rocks and use them to tell stories and count with.
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A list of lovely tales about fossils.
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Students learn more about fossils by creating their own.
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Students create their own 'dinosaur eggs' from simple materials and then crack them open.
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Students create dinosaur tracks in their sandpit and learn more about the dinosaur trackways we have in Broome.
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Students produce their own crystals from saturated solutions of sugar, salt or Epsom salts. They examine their shapes and sizes.
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Students pan for 'gold'.
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In the first activity students break up friable rock to make sediments. In the second students turn sand into rock through the addition of an Epsom salts solution.
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Ideas for an exploration table to engage students with rocks, fossils and crystals.
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Students explore soil and learn more about what it is made up of.
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Students grow plants in sand and soil to see the difference in their growth rate and survival.
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Students learn more about worms through examining them, create their own using a variety of materials and creating 'worm' paintings.
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An experiment to show students that there is water contained within soils.
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An exploration table to engage students with soils including a range of soils, magnifying glasses, sieves, water, plants and artificial worms.
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An experiment to demonstrate what happens to puddles after it stops raining.
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An activity to get students thinking creatively, and quickly.
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A demonstration to show students that plants 'drink' water too.
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An investigation to help students work out if plants like salty water.
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Students will tell you they need water but who else does?
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How do we tell when it is night and when it is day?
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How big is your shadow? Does it change over the course of a school day?
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How do we know what season it is? What seasons do the local Aboriginal people recognise?
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Students build to survive their very own 'earthquake'.
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Students learn a little more about volcanoes through a candle wax demonstration (with GREAT care) and songs.
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Students design their own rockets to send them into space and are then treated to a classroom 'rocket' launch.
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Students explore for micrometeorites.
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Students learn more about the varying sizes of planets by standing on scaled models of them.
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Students clothe an astronaut and have a go at completing tasks using their gloves.
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A list of lovely space books.
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