Centre – Drip Painting Explicit / Intentional Teaching: Centre – Apple Gravity

The children will use the pipettes to drip drops of Mat session:
watercolour paints onto the paper towels, and they will Introduction
Experiment
discuss with the educator how the paint spreads out on Questions to ask children: The plastic gutters will already be set up outside at
the paper towels into big circles from the small amount - What happens when you push a toy car? different angles, but the children can rearrange them
that they dropped on there. - What happens when you get pushed on a however they wish. They will roll the apples down
Materials: swing? differently angled ramps and test how these angles
- Paper towels - What happens when you drop a bouncy ball affect the speed of that the apples reach the bottom of
- Liquid watercolours from really high? the gutters.
- Paint containers Introduce and read the book ‘Oscar and the Cricket’ by Materials:
- Water Jeff Waring. - Plastic gutters (clean)
- Paintbrushes Tell the children that they will be doing lots of different - Apples
- Paper towels activities involving force and motion. Also tell them - Tables (to create levels)
EYLF links: that they should talk to each other while they are doing - Chairs (to create levels)
- Outcome 1 the activities and share their ideas. EYLF links:
- Outcome 4 The children will then go to the learning centres to - Outcome 1
- Outcome 5 experiment with force and motion. - Outcome 2
- Outcome 4
- Outcome 5
Conclusion:
Centre – Bottle Rocket The whole group will go outside and play ‘tug of war’
Centre – Pendulum Painting
The children will make the bottle rocket (according to having multiple rounds and doing different teams. They The children will use the cup with a small hole in the
the directions on https://www.science- will then be able to have a discussion with the teacher bottom that will be swinging from a broom as their
sparks.com/making-a-bottle-rocket/) and, with help as a whole group about who you have to pull hard on paintbrush. They will put some paint in the cup and
from the educator, will pump them full of air. This will the rope to win. push and pull it in order to make it swing and move the
make the rocket shoot up into the air, and the children paint around the page. This can lead to a discussion
can discuss the force that make this happen with the with the educator about how the cup carried on moving
educator. to do the painting, even when it had been some time
Materials: since they moved it.
- Empty plastic bottles Materials:
- Cardboard (to make the cone and fins) - Foam or paper cup
- Corks - Scissors
- Water - String
- A pump with a needle adapter - Tape
EYLF links: - Chairs
- Outcome 1 - A broom
- Outcome 2 - White A3 paper
- Outcome 3 - Plastic tablecloth (as big as it needs to be to
- Outcome 4 cover the possible painting area to be placed
 - Outcome 5 on the floor)
EYLF links:
- Outcome 1
- Outcome 4
- Outcome 5
Centre – Gravity Splatter Art Objective/s: Centre – Reading Corner
The children will be outside for this activity, and they  As a result of this lesson, students will be able There will be books about force and movement in the
can dip the pom poms in the paints before they climb up to discuss how gravity affects the world in usual reading corner so that children can have them read
the small step-ladder to drop the pom poms onto the different ways to them. These books will include:
large piece of butcher paper that has been set up. They  As a result of this lesson, students will be able - And Everyone Shouted “Pull!” by Claire
can then have a discussion with the educator about to describe how pressure affects the force of Llewellyn
gravity and how they were able to make such a big movement that something has - Oscar and the Cricket by Jeff Waring
‘splatter’ from a small pom pom. - Equal Shmequal by Virginia Kroll
Materials: Materials:
- Butchers paper - Books
- Watercolour paints (diluted with water) - Bookcases
- Small step-ladder - Pillows
- Pom poms - Blankets
- Tin cans (to hold down the butchers paper) EYLF links:
- Paint containers - Outcome 1
EYLF links: - Outcome 3
- Outcome 1
- Outcome 2
- Outcome 3
- Outcome 4
- Outcome 5

Assessment & Recording: (What are we assessing? How are we assessing? How are we recording?)
What are we assessing?
 The students ability to accurately discuss how gravity affects the world around us
 The students ability to accurately describe the effect that pressure has on force

How are we assessing?

 Inquiry questions – the educators will assess the children’s knowledge through asking inquiry questions that relate to force and movement whilst the children are
engaged in play, allowing the educator to make assumptions about the children’s understanding of force and movement
 Observations – the educators will be observant of the children’s engagement in the lesson, their understanding, their participation and their overall interest in the
 learning centres

How are we recording?

 Inquiry questions – the educator will have a checklist of the inquiry questions to be asked, and they will ‘check off’ when each child has demonstrated an
understanding of the answer that they are giving
 Observations – the educator will write observations of what the children are saying and doing in their play, similar to a running record, in order to gain an
understanding of what is being learned

Highlight one or two outcomes specifically connected to your objective/s.