Learning Areas: Science, ECSEL
What is this activity?
What skills are being enhanced? What knowledge is gained?
What do you need to prepare for this activity?
Step by step guide
What questions can you ask to promote ECSEL thinking and discussions?
How can you extend children’s thinking?
What skills are being enhanced and what knowledge is being gained through this activity?
Self-Awareness
Use the following materials to prepare for the activity:
Emotions Volcano
1. Secure the recycled plastic liter bottle to a tray using tape.
2. Support children in cutting out strips of paper.
3. Use school glue mixed with water to adhere the strips to the upright bottle, forming a volcano shape. Make sure to keep the bottle opening unobscured!
4. Paint the volcano once the glue is dry.
5. Once the paint on the volcano has dried, discuss children’s hypotheses about what might happen (see ECSEL prompts).
6. When the volcano has dried, pour vinegar into the bottle opening and add desired food coloring. Lastly, add baking soda and observe your student’s reactions as they watch what happens!
ECSEL prompts are helpful questions or statements you can use to promote children’s thinking about emotions. These prompts are related to this specific activity.
Make a hypothesis! What do you think will happen?
What does anticipation mean? What feelings do you have while you wait for the reaction?
What did you feel when the volcano erupted? Were you excited? Surprised? Scared? Nervous?
Did everyone feel the same emotions when the eruption happened?
What emotion does the eruption remind you of?
Was the reaction what you expected? Did everything go according to plain?
Use these questions and statements to extend children’s learning!
1. What emotion does the reaction remind you of? What else makes you feel that way?2. What is a reaction? Can you think of any other reactions?