DEVELOPMENTAL DOMAIN CONCEPT MAP
PHYSICAL: Fine Motor
- Sensory tub – what does/does not
belong in the ocean (problem solving).
- Fizzy ocean science experiment.
- Icy ocean sensory bin and ice melt.
- Sea animals bi-carbonate soda and
vinegar experiment.
- Ocean slime.
- Sand slime.
- Ocean letter writing tray.
PERSONAL / SOCIAL /
EMOTIONAL
- I feel crabby when…? Feeling’s activity.
- Sea animal puppets.
- ‘Helping Hands’ octopus helper chart.
- Singing songs such as ‘A Sailor Went to
Sea’ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=nFxAiWkSePk
- Assign sea animals to emotions activity.
CREATIVE / AESTHETIC PHYSICAL: Gross Motor
- Playdough stamping with sea animals. - Ocean themed gross motor dice.
- Ocean sensory bottle. - ‘Sea animal dance’ activity –
- Seaweed art. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
- Ocean salt painting. v=t95UKJitjsI and/or
- Hand painting and turn into sea animal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
- Starfish craft. v=a3iJjUKWrkk
- Beach towel ball toss.
Concept: Under the Sea
COGNITIVE / LANGUAGE SPIRITUAL / MORAL
- Saltwater density experiment – predicting. - Ocean waves in a bottle.
- Shell sorting. - Yoga/meditation / Nibs the Octopus /
- Ocean sorting sensory play. Cosmic Kids Yoga –
- Sea animal counting craft. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
- ‘Letter of the Day’: “D is for Dolphin!”: spend the day v=hUBRoLRioiY
doing activities of words that start with the letter D - Giant sea animal collage – whole class
and make it sea/ocean specific. effort.
- Can you dissolve a shell? - Reading stories – The Mess that we
- Crystal seashells. made by Michelle Lord, Goodnight
Ocean by Mark Jasper and Harvey
Stevenson, Mister Seahorse by Eric
Carle.