Let's Find Out (Tuesday)

Series 271: Let's Find Out Tuesday Children are naturally inquisitive and want to know about the world around them. Experiences that encourage children to question how or why things happen are a science experience. This week in Play School we adopt a “finding out” attitude and explore our environment in a scientific way. Over the week we look at colours, magnets, batteries, flying, chemical reactions and movement. Through a mixture of play, observation, music and storytelling we “find out” together. Children are continually developing skills in thinking, reasoning and observation. To help introduce science concepts and extend language skills, the presenters use appropriate science terms in a context to encourage their understanding. Open-ended questions are posed such as “What do you think would happen if...?”to extend thinking and encourage exploration. Every day this week our resident scientist, Ruben, and a small group of children, conduct simple experiments - looking at how things dissolve, making a simple electrical circuit, making an object fly and observing chemical reactions and chain reactions caused by moving objects. SYNOPSIS Alex and Karen are joined by Sofya to play Hide and Fish with magnets, make shadow puppets, find out about conducting electricity with scientist Ruben and take a look at a scrap metal yard through the windows. PRESENTERS Alex Papps – Karen Pang – Sofya Gollan PIANIST Peter Dasent TOLD STORY The Marvellous Robot (A story told by the Play School team) FILM Scrap Metal Yard (Play School, ABC) SONGS There is Something that is Hiding (There is Someone Who is Hiding) Composer: Henrietta Clark Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Rain Song Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing R.O.B.O.T Composers: Vanessa & Karina Johnston Publisher: Jingle Jam Pty. Ltd. What Do You Think My Name is? Composer: Warren Carr Publisher: ABC Music Publishing SCIENCE EXP