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Materials
Add to your ramp materials from last week:
- toilet paper and paper towel tubes, cutting some lengthwise in half to make open troughs; poster tubes; PVC tubes; and wooden molding of different lengths, if available
Key Science Concepts
- A ramp is a surface with one end higher than the other.
Directions
Introduce children to the new materials you’ve added to the indoor ramps learning center this week: tubes and half tubes. After they’ve had a chance to examine and play with the new materials, ask:
- What are some of the differences between flat ramps and tube ramps?
- What do you think you can do with a tube ramp that you can’t do with a flat ramp? And what does a flat ramp allow you to do that you can’t do with a tube or tunnel ramp?
- What about the objects you can roll down them—do you think some objects might work better on tube ramps or on flat ramps? Which ones? Why do you think so?
Explain that they’ll have many more opportunities to play and experiment with the tube ramps this week.
