LEARNING ACTIVITY PLAN

Name: Melissa Johnson

Site:

Chetek Kids Club

Description of Activity:
Fizzy Ice:
The children will witness what happens when vinegar and
baking soda are mixed together.

Type of Activity:
Science Activity
Age group: 2 to 3 year olds
Number in group: 13

Opening Question/Invitation/Prop/Finger Play:

While ringing my jingle bells I will sing:
Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring the bell
Ring it loud. Ring it clear.
To tell the children in the room.
That center time now is here
Please come gather around the table, we have a fun
experiment today!

Concepts & Skills:

Children will identify mixing baking soda
and vinegar will cause an affect - carbon
dioxide gas.
Children will repeat the steps to cause the
effect on their own.
Questions to ask:

What do you think will happen?

What will happen if you try?

Procedure:
1. Mix vinegar and food coloring to make colored
vinegar and put them in little cups.
2. Full up a large container/bucket with crushed ice
and make piles of ice. Add some baking soda down
into the mound and some more ice on top of it.
3. Use the medicine dropper to grab some colored
vinegar and squeeze the colored vinegar onto your
mounds.
4. Watch the reactions and chat with the kids about
what they see. Pick a new color to drop and add
that to the ice again. Have the children take turns
adding more baking soda to the ice and let the
children take turns dropping more vinegar onto the
mounds.

Materials Needed:
Crushed ice
Vinegar
Food Coloring
4 medicine droppers
Baking soda
4 small cups

Performance Standards:
Cognition and General Knowledge
C. Scientific Thinking
C.EL. 4 Forms explanations based on trial and error,
observations, and explorations.
Explores and formulates conclusions based on

Potential Guidance Techniques Needed:

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observation and past experiences.

WITC Instructor Use Only:

/2 Activity Plan is developmentally appropriate
/2 Activity Plan is comprehensive
/1 Professional presentation/spelling & grammar is correct