Unit 7 Perd Task 1

Task 1:
Write a reflective account of TWO (2) activities or experiences you have provided in your setting which have promoted children’s understanding of science. Include in your account:

• What you have considered when organising the activities or experiences

• How your activities or experiences helped the children to investigate and understand scientific ideas

• A question you asked to encourage the children to investigate, understand and develop scientific thinking

• Evaluate your effectiveness in implementing the activities or experiences

P7.1 Explain what you considered when organising the activities or experiences

P7.2 Explain how your activities or experiences helped the children to investigate and understand scientific ideas

P7.3 Include a relevant question you asked the children

P7.4 Evaluate how effective you were in implementing the activities or experiences

In my placement I had to plan and provide two different activities to promote children’s understanding of science. I planned both of the activities under the headings:
Aim, Learning Outcomes, Resources, Inclusivity/Differentiation, Healthy and Safety, Links to ECM and Links to EYFS. My first activity was called Buttermilk, it was adding vinegar to milk to make plastic; my aim was to get the children to investigate why when you add vinegar to milk it turns to plastic. I wanted the children to ask lots of different questions to show that they are investigating; I would then ask them to see if they have gained some knowledge.

The activity helped the children to investigate because they had never seen a reaction before and they were interested about what was going to happen. The children had a hand on approach by putting the vinegar into the milk; they also smelt the vinegar beforehand. To make the plastic colourful, I got the children to add glitter and food colouring. After I mixed together all of the components as the milk was hot the plastic was formed, after

Links: to EYFS. My first activity was called Buttermilk, it was adding vinegar to milk to make plastic; my aim was to get the children to investigate why when you add vinegar to milk it turns to plastic. I wanted the children to ask lots of different questions to show that they are investigating; I would then ask them to see if they have gained some knowledge. The activity helped the children to investigate because they had never seen a reaction before and they were interested about what was going to happen. The children had a hand on approach by putting the vinegar into the milk; they also smelt the vinegar beforehand. To make the plastic colourful, I got the children to add glitter and food colouring. After I mixed together all of the components as the milk was hot the plastic was formed, after draining the rest of the milk that hadn’t solidified I showed the children, I asked them if they could tell me what had happened to the milk and one of the children said it changed colour and another said it turned hard. I thought this was pretty good as it is started to help the children understand solid and liquid as they knew a solid was hard. My second activity was called Electrical Static Ball, it was a plug in electrical static ball, my aim was to get the children to investigate why when they touch the static ball the electricity comes to them and doesn’t hurt them. I also wanted to teach them about the safety side of electricity so all of the children knew how to avoid it. I plugged the static ball into the computer and as soon as it went on the children