Look and wonder
Notice, Think, Wonder
Study a strange little alien, then sort your ideas into what you notice, what you think and what you wonder.
Thinking sheet · Look and wonder
Puddle Watch
Trace a puddle’s edge in chalk, check it over the day and draw how it shrinks.
- Grades
- K–4
- Time
- about 15 minutes
- Topic
- Look and wonder
- Kids practice
- evaporation, observation over time, predicting
What kids do
“Where does a puddle go? Watch one disappear!”
- Morning
- Lunch
- Afternoon
- I think the water went…
- It shrank faster when…
How to run it
- Trace the puddle with chalk each time you check.
- Compare a sunny and a shady puddle.
- Introduce the word “evaporation.”
Talk about it
- Where did the water go?
- Which puddle dried first?
- Where will it come back?
Take it further
Try a cup of water on a sunny sill.
Pairs well with
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