Ball Run Fun For Preschoolers

 

This page features different books, activities, and other images that can help other individuals expand and reinforce on the concepts of gravity, motion, and force that are being taught.

 

 

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Art Center:

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                    Pendulum Painting                                                  Magnet Painting                                                                                                      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Music and Movement:

 

(https://www.cape.k12.mo.us/blanchard/hicks/News%20Pages/scienceforcepoems.htm)

 

Gravity (to the tune, “London Bridge is Falling Down”)

 

Chorus:

Gravity is pulling down, pulling down, pulling down,

Gravity is pulling down

All around you!

Take a ball and toss it high.

Will it stay in the sky?

Gravity will pull it down

All around you.

Chorus:

Gravity is pulling down, pulling down, pulling down,

Gravity is pulling down

All around you!

Jump up high and down you’ll go.

There’s a force down below.

Gravity is pulling down

All around you.

Chorus:

Gravity is pulling down, pulling down, pulling down,

Gravity is pulling down

All around you!

 

The Push-and-Pull Song (sung to the tune, “Row, Row, Row your boat!”)

Push, push, push your cart,

Gently through the store.

Fill it full of lots of things,

Then let’s add some more.

Pull, pull, pull your sled,

Gently through the snow.

Let’s get on and zip on down.

How fast can we go?

Push, push, push the boat,

As the wind does blow

Over the ocean and into the sails,

To make the sailboat go.

Pull, pull pull the flag,

As the wind goes by.

Pull the flag to make it flap,

Look how proud it flies!

Push, pull, to make it move,

Try it and you’ll see.

Things move with a push or pull-

Even you and me!

 

On the Move (to the tune, “Turkey in the Straw”)

If you want to move a ball

from here to over there,

You can kick it with your foot

and send it through the air.

If the ball’s too heavy,

don’t you despair.

Make a ramp, sent it rolling.

It will get over there.

Push it or pull it.

Move it everywhere.

Roll it down, throw it up,

high into the air.

Try a magnet or a lever

and your moving will improve.

 

 

 

Blocks:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dramatic Play:

 

 

 

 

Computers:

 

http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/forces-and-motion/force-and-motion.htm

http://www.wartgames.com/themes/science/motion.html

http://science.k12flash.com/forceandmotion.html

 

 

Sand and Water:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Outdoors:

 

 

 

 

 

 

            

Discovery:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Toys and Games:

                                                                                                                                     

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Sensory Experiences:

                                         Take Home Materials:

 

                                              - Small bag of different balls (sensory balls)

                                     -      Weblink on how to make a homemade bouncy ball and ball ramp:

                                       http://www.ksl.com/?sid=21626588

                                                  http://www.icanteachmychild.com/2011/06/homemade-marbledbouncyballs-ramp/