Let's Find Out (Friday) Play School : Season 271 Episode 5

Series 271: Let's Find Out Friday Children are naturally inquisitive and want to know about the world around them. Experiences that encourage children to question how or why things happen are a science experience. This week in Play School we adopt a “finding out” attitude and explore our environment in a scientific way. Over the week we look at colours, magnets, batteries, flying, chemical reactions and movement. Through a mixture of play, observation, music and storytelling we “find out” together. Children are continually developing skills in thinking, reasoning and observation. To help introduce science concepts and extend language skills, the presenters use appropriate science terms in a context to encourage their understanding. Open-ended questions are posed such as “What do you think would happen if...?”to extend thinking and encourage exploration. Every day this week our resident scientist, Ruben, and a small group of children, conduct simple experiments - looking at how things dissolve, making a simple electrical circuit, making an object fly and observing chemical reactions and chain reactions caused by moving objects. PRESENTERS Emma Palmer – Teo Gebert PIANIST Peter Dasent STORY The Rain Train Written by Elena de Roo Illustrated by Brian Lovelock Walker Books Australia FILM Building a Brick Wall (Play School, ABC) SONGS Build it up Composer: Peter Charlton Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Here’s a House Composers: John Fox & Warren Carr Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Wheels on the Bus Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing Choo Choo Vamos a Pasear Composer: Spanish Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing Listen Composers: Henrietta Clark & Warren Carr Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Driving in My Car Composers: Peter Dasent & Sophie Emtage Publisher: Origin/Control SCIENCE EXPERIMENT Today Ruben uses a ball to create a chain reaction to push a