Squishy Squashy Sponges Book Experiments Early Childhood

• This teachers guide 16 squishy, squashy activities with sponges, including matching, sorting, sponge printing, and soaking up water. Available separately is a discovery kit with sponges and children's books.
• Based on the four phases of the learning cycle: awareness, exploration, inquiry, and application
• Cross-curricular activities in literature, drama, writing, art, biology, and cooking
• Information for teachers on early childhood process skills, learning cycles, and inquiry-based science
• For pre-school children

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Forword
• Using This Book
• Part 1: Awareness
• Awareness 1: What Do Scientists Do?
• Awareness 2: Getting Excited About Sponges
• Part 2: Exploration
• Exploration 1: A Closer Look at Sponges
• Exploration 2: Matching Up Sponges
• Exploration 3: Sponge Sorting
• Exploration 4: Sponges Get Wet
• Exploration 5: Sharing Home Samples
• Part 3: Inquiry
• Inquiry 1: Soak It Up
• Inquiry 2: Looking at Holes
• Inquiry 3: Printing Holes
• Inquiry 4: I Wonder
• Part 4: Advanced Inquiry
• Advanced Inquiry 1: How Much Water?
• Advanced Inquiry 2: How Heavy is the Water?
• Part 5: Application
• Application 1: Spongy Cakes
• Application 2: Is This a Sponge?
• Part 6: Sponges Across the Curriculum
• Across the Curriculum 1: Creative Dynamics
• Across the Curriculum 2: Writing to Learn
• Across the Curriculum 3: Sponge Painting
• Across the Curriculum 4: Sponges and Seeds
• Across the Curriculum 5: Sponge Cooking
• Part 7: Science for Young Learners
• Why Preschool Science?
• Teaching wtih Learning Cycles
• Documenting Learning
• Part 8: All About Sponges
• Sea Sponges Are Animals
• References