Paper Bag kite investigation with Pre-Primary (Nature and development of Science ACSHE013)
In our PrePrimary Class Science Journal the students compiled a list of the things that we see moving around on a windy day.
The students then listened to the story – Curious George Flies a Kite. Each pair of children were given a small tray of materials to take outside to investigate which materials the wind will and will not move such as – paper cup, small and large balls, feather, piece of paper. Then we returned to class record our findings on a T chart in the Class Science Journal.
In the next lesson the students constructed a paper bag kite. They took the kite outside to test it out in the wind. Some of investigation questions were – which is best a long tail or short tail? Is it best to walk quickly or slowly?
To conclude the activity Mrs Cogger’s shared one of her favourite poems is ‘Wind on the hill’ by A A Milne. It was a great poem to share with the children this week about wind and kites.
No one can tell me,
Nobody knows,
Where the wind comes from,
Where the wind goes.
It’s flying from somewhere
As fast as it can,
I couldn’t keep up with it,
Not if I ran.
But if I stopped holding
The string of my kite,
It would blow with the wind
For a day and a night.
And then when I found it,
Wherever it blew,
I should know that the wind
Had been going there too.
So then I could tell them
Where the wind goes…
But where the wind comes from
Nobody knows.
