The Weather & the Seasons Level: Early Grades - Cross-curricular activities
Music
Pre-K
Music Playtime
Music Lesson Description
Group work
Active
Interactive
Audio-visual learning
Rain in a Bag
Materials needed: plastic food bags, soil, spoon, handful of grass with roots attached (pulled from the ground), water, clear tape, masking tape, marker pen, drinking straw.
- Each child puts a few spoonfuls of soil into a bag labelled with their name.
- Next they plant the handful of grass into the soil.
- Pour one spoonful of water over the grass.
- Put a straw in the bag (with most of the straw out of the bag).
- Seal the bag around the straw.
- Fill the bag with air by having the child blow into the straw.
- Pull the straw out of the bag and quickly seal it, keeping the air inside.
- Tape the bag to a sunny window.
Soon, they should see condensation begin to form and eventually it will roll down the bag into the soil, causing ‘rain’ to water the plant.
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