ECD 133 Preschool SCIENCE Learning Plan Format Name Kelly Komnick

Activity Name: Salt Glue Watercolor experiment

Age of Child: Preschool

Setting: Individual

Developmental Focus: Fine Motor

Key Content Focus: Science and Art

Key Content Area Concepts: The child will use their pincer grasp to drop colors
onto the salt glue creation. They will also be exploring how the liquid is
absorbed.

Key Content Area Skills: The child will use their pincer grasp to drop colors onto
the salt glue creation. They will also be exploring how the liquid is absorbed.

Learning Outcomes: (what the child will know or be able to do) (Refer to Early
Learning Standards and/or other research-based standards – must reference at
least two)
The child will . . . The child will explore the technique of absorption and
experiment with dropping the liquid.
SCIENCE standards:
Standard K-5: The student will demonstrate the understanding that objects
can be described by their observable properties. (Physical
Science)

ELS:

K-1.2 Use tools (including magnifiers and eyedroppers) safely, accurately, and
appropriately when gathering specific data.

K-1.5 Use appropriate safety procedures when conducting investigations.

Materials to collect/prepare: (EVERYTHING you need to do the activity! – Please

remember that book titles must be underlined or in italics! – Words for
songs/poems/fingerplays must be included - Remember your clean-up
materials!))
• Bottle of white glue
• Table Salt
• Liquid food coloring mixed with a few drops of water
• Card stock
• Droppers
• Containers for the food coloring water mixture
• Baking dish shallow enough to hold your piece of paper
Transition/warm up/introduction: (You MUST plan for this! – May be a song,
poem, fingerplay, book, etc that relates in some way to what you are teaching.
You must tell how/what you will do with this!)

We will start off with the book Water By: Frank Asch

Adult-guided Procedures: (use as many or as few steps as needed)

After the transition/warm up/introduction, the adult will…
1. Collect all needed materials
2. Put the drops of food coloring into the different containers
3. Add in the drops of water to each color
4. Set up the paper and the baking dish
5. Call over the child

Child-guided Procedures: (use as many or as few steps as needed)

1. First the child will . . . squeeze the glue onto the paper into any designs they
would like
2. Next the child will . . . pour the salt over the glue
3. Then the child will . . . brush off the excess glue
4. Then the child will . . . use the dropper to drops the food coloring water
mixture to watch it absorb into the salt

Conversation to Support Learning/Talking with Children: (at least five (5) open-
ended, nonjudgmental SCIENCE questions that may be asked throughout the
lesson such as Tell me about . . ., How did you . . . ?, What would happen if . . .?

Tell me about what we just did?

What would happen if we didn't use the salt, and only used the glue?
How come the liquid disappeared?
What would happen if we used sand instead?
What would happen if we used more liquid?

Observations and Assessment: (how you will know the child knows or can do
something, what you will see the child do or hear the child say) (Must relate to
the Standards you selected for outcomes! You must put the related ELS/OTHER
STANDARD CODE in parenthesis after each possibility.)
The child will use their pincer grasp to drop colors onto the salt glue creation.
They will also be exploring how the liquid is absorbed. (K-1.2 Use tools
(including magnifiers and eyedroppers) safely, accurately, and appropriately
when gathering specific data.)

Accommodations for individuals:

Scaffolding down: To scaffold this down I would either help them place
the glue around on the paper or I would have a paper with lines they could use
the glue to trace.

Scaffolding up: To scaffold this up I would allow the children to get the
experiment ready themselves, I would involve them in the mixing of the water
and food coloring.
Resources: (At least two beyond course texts…Must be professional resources!
Pinterest is NOT a professional resource!)

Asch, Frank. “Water.” Barnes & Noble, The B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog, 30 Nov.
9279, www.barnesandnoble.com/p/water-frank-
asch/1102162052/2695672089699?st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Core Catch-All,
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9mran3AIVElcNCh0rVQvVEAQYASABEgKvmPD_BwE.

“Art Science = Salt Glue Watercolour Experiment | CBC Parents.” CBCnews,

CBC/Radio Canada, 12 Nov. 2014, www.cbc.ca/parents/play/view/art-science-
salt-glue-watercolour-experiment.