{"id":6039,"date":"2011-03-30T06:21:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T12:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/?p=6039"},"modified":"2011-03-30T06:21:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T12:21:55","slug":"does-it-dissolve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/30\/does-it-dissolve\/","title":{"rendered":"Does It Dissolve?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s another fun hands-on activity to keep curious hands occupied and learning at the same time!\u00c2\u00a0 I read about this dissolving activity at Totally Tots<\/a>, and we did this one morning during Spring Break.<\/p>\n

Does It Dissolve?<\/strong><\/p>\n

First, I explained the definition of “dissolve”-when something breaks into pieces so small that you can no longer see it.<\/p>\n

Then I presented eight different substances for The Littlest Apple to experiment with (7 are pictured below, the 8th was instant tea).\u00c2\u00a0 Each substance was labeled with a post it note (I’m starting to work with him on sounding out words and word recognition).<\/p>\n

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The Littlest Apple had to predict whether each substance would dissolve or not.\u00c2\u00a0 Then he dumped it in to a pitcher of water and stirrred, stirred, stirred.\u00c2\u00a0 Dumping and stirring–right up The Littlest Apple’s alley!<\/p>\n

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Then we evaluated whether his prediction was right, and he moved the post it note label to another area of the counter with 2 post its labeled “dissolve” and “no”.<\/p>\n

The Littlest Apple had such a great time with this, and I was surprised at how well he followed along with the steps for the process (hypothesis, experiment, result).<\/p>\n

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The only thing I might change next time is to have a separate bowl\/cup\/container of water for each substance.\u00c2\u00a0 Once we put some of the things that didn’t dissolve into the water, it made it harder to discern which things were dissolving.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I’m hoping to share more “science” activities like this in the future!<\/p>\n

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Here’s another fun hands-on activity to keep curious hands occupied and learning at the same time!\u00c2\u00a0 I read about this dissolving activity at Totally Tots, and we did this one morning during Spring Break. Does It Dissolve? First, I explained the definition of “dissolve”-when something breaks into pieces so small that you can no longer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,49,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-motherhood","category-tot-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6039"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6055,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039\/revisions\/6055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}