Science and Technology for the Early Years

Introduction; PLANNED USE OF RESOURCE AREAS; Book corner; Sand tray; Water play; Scientific and mathematical equipment and artifacts; Writing area; Imaginative play area; Creative media corner; Construction kits and big toys; Computer and concept keyboard station; Food and cooking equipment area; Plants, animals and materials around us; Sounds and music; Games and group activities; PLANNED ACTIVITIES; A ALL ABOUT PEOPLE; Tommy Thumb; Make paper people; Do you have a happy face?; Can we hear you?; Are you Mr Tickle?; Different ways to move over things; Developing a sense of smell; Growing up; Are you well?; Memory games; B ANIMALS; Pets; Watch the tadpoles; Birds; Snails; Woodlice; What's in the pond?; Incy Wincy spider; Milk products; How many wings does a butterfly have?; Noah's ark and pairs of animals; C PLANTS, LEAVES AND FLOWERS; Leaves of all shapes and sizes; Recording leaf shapes; Growing plants from seeds; Jack and the beanstalk; Mary, Mary, quite contrary; Growing bulbs; Plastic bottle greenhouses; Make a seed mosaic; Our food; Harvest festival; D OUT OF DOORS; Look down; Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home; Look up; Can you see the wind?; Who lives at the zoo?; What is it?; Where does it live?; Where do you go for a holiday?; Make an underwater world; We're going on a dinosaur hunt; E EXPLORING MATERIALS; Water play; Bubbles; Can we mend the bucket?; Soaking up water; Natural materials; Make a touchy tortoise; Soft and hard; Smooth and rough; Are playdough and Plasticine the same?; Tidy up time; F JOINING MATERIALS; Sticking things together; Postman's parcels; Cutting skills; Working with wood; Puppet pets; A stitch in time; Who am I today?; Construction corner; Building site; Workshop corner; G CHANGING MATERIALS (FOOD); Sandwich making; Baking and making; Rainbow jelly; What do you like for breakfast?; Sweet or sour?; What did the three little pigs eat?; Chocolate crispies; Fizzy drinks; Dissolving - going, going, gone!; Classroom cafe; H VARIETY OF MATERIALS; Wash day; Put your foot in it; Hands and fingers; Hats on heads; Shoes and other footwear; Growing up and getting bigger; Tea for two; Party plates; Mechanics at work; Time out; I LIGHT AND COLOURS; Adding colours; Changing colours; Bottled colours; Moving colours; Looking through colour; Light and fire; Light and dark; Shining, luminous and dull; Mirror, mirror, on the wall; Elmer the elephant; J SOUND; Sounds and rhythm; Fast and slow, loud and soft; Bangers; Shaking sounds; Twanging sounds; Blowing sounds; Noises we make; Sounds we like; Warning sounds; Everyday sounds; K MOVEMENT AND FORCES;; Moving things; What can the wind do?; Mechanical toys; Moving things; See-saw, Marjorie Daw; People on the bus; Magnets; Pop-up cards - how do they work?; PE movement; Playtime; L ELECTRICITY; Things that use electricity; Using the computer; Toys with batteries; Torches; Shadows; Making a simple circuit; One wire or two?; What is a switch?; Static electricity; Decorative lights.