This week as we were building our background knowledge about water as a natural resource, we started talking about how water can become polluted. We learned a little bit about how oil spills impact ocean life. Then things got a little messy as I asked the kindergartners to try their hands at cleaning up an (vegetable) oil spill. Students were armed with spoons and tried to scoop out the oil. We found that even though we kept scooping and scooping, we were leaving a lot of oil in the water. We also found that it was really hard to get just oil out - we were getting lots of water in our spoons, too. After our exploration, we talked about how hard it is to clean up pollution in the ocean and what that means for ocean life.
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Mrs. McGrane
I love teaching kindergarten literacy at STEM! It is amazing to be a part of the reading and writing growth of a kindergarten student. You get to see kids move from knowing some letters and sounds to being enthusiastic readers and young authors. Archives
March 2016
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