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Grade: Elementary
Subject: other
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Thank you everyone for your great ideas. These plans came from ideas posted at the EC chatboard and on the mailring. We will be combining two classrooms and doing 4 activities in each classroom. Of course you could do this outside, but we live in a very windy and hot area and our bubbles will last longer in the classroom.Bubble Day
Activities:
1. Hula Hoop: body bubble
Materials: bubble mixture, hula hoop, small wading pool,
milk crate or small stool.
Procedure: place mixture in pool. In the middle of pool
place milk crate. Place hula hoop on bottom of pool with crate
in the middle. Student stands on crate. Draw hula hoop up
from mixture to form a large bubble around student.
2. Bubble Windows:
Materials for each window: plastic wallpaper tray (used for wetting
rolls of wallpaper), a wooden dowel cut to fit the inside of the
tray, string knotted on each end of the dowel, bubble mixture.
Procedure: Place bubble mixture in the tray (enough to cover dowel
and strings. Student draws the dowel straight up from tray.
Explore and discover: can you put your arm or hand through the
window? What do you think makes the window burst? Experiment
with wet or dry skin.
3. Dixie Cup Bubble Blowers:
Materials: bubble mixture, small Dixie cup, straight straw,
masking tape.
Procedure: Poke the straw in the side near the bottom of
the cup. Use the masking tape to secure the straw.Turn the
cup upside down and dip the opening into bubble solution. Blow
through the straw.
4. Bubble Frames:
Materials: Bubble solution, string, straws.
Procedure: Use a piece of string about 36 inches long and string the
two straws. Knot the ends. ( You can experiment using
different lengths of string and straw.) Place this in solution
using the straws as the top and bottom and the strings as
the sides. Wave in the air.
5. Bubble Prints:
Materials: bubble solution, small bowls, straw for each child, paint
(bio-color, tempera, or food coloring), paper (finger painting
paper works well.
Procedure: place different colors of mixture into
separate bowls. (plastic cereal bowls work well). Give each
student a straw and a piece of paper. Remind student to blow
into the straw and not suck (yuck!)
Child blows into the straw placed in the bowl and makes
bubbles. Place the paper on top of the bubbles and let the
paper break them. Move on to another color.
6. Discovery Table:
Materials: bubble solution and a variety of wands and
materials to make bubbles.
Procedure: Students experiment with different objects to
discover what kinds of bubbles can be made.
7.Bubble Skeletons:
Materials: bubble solution, bubble skeletons, hot glue, chenille stems.
Bubble skeletons: use hollow coffee stir sticks or pieces of
thin straw to make different shaped skeletons. Glue the pieces
to make more stable. Use pices of chenille stems as connectors.
These will be 4 dimensional polygon shapes with a handle.
Procedure: let the students explore the different shapes.
They can wave these around, but ask them to see what happens
as they pop the different walls made by the shape.
8.Wet Bubble Table-cars:
Materials: bubble solution, small cars, straw.(You can also add other
small objects for discovery)
Procedure: have student blow a bubble on a wet portion of the table.
Student explores with small objects. What can you place in a bubble?
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