When we went on our leaf hunt earlier in the week I asked the children to make sure they collected "two or more" leaves. After we figured out that this meant at least two leaves and that they could collect as many as they wanted as long as they had two, we went out and collected our leaves! What a great "teachable moment" for math!
The second leaf that they collected was for another science activity. We already learned that scientists observe different things. Today we became scientists to learn more about our leaves. We measured them using several different non-standard units.
At one station the children had to measure their leaf's length using cubes.
At another station they measured whether their leaf would sink or float and then measured how many pennies it would take to sink their leaf.
At another station the children measured the area of their leaf using pennies.
The station that they seemed to enjoy the most was where they measured how far they could count before their leaf hit the floor when dropped. They did it over and over, trying to see if they could count a little faster!
This was a fun way to integrate science and math to finish up our fall leaves study. The children enjoyed using different units to describe their leaves. Then they had to draw a picture of their leaf like a scientist: using the "real" colors.
Check out our little scientists!
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