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Significant Activities per Age-Range and their Corresponding Tools for
Thought
Age Range
Activity
Thinking Tool
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Around 7 to 9 months babies have
begun to discover shadows. Help
them develop their visual tracking
skills by showing them their own
shadow as well as your shadow.
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See/Think/Wonder
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Use movement or hold up objects to
demonstrate to the babies that as
people move, so do their shadows.
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Change Key
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Infants
Make shadow puppets with your
hands
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Connection Key
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Explore different sources of lights
(including natural and artificial
lights)
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Wheel of Wonder
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Identify the colored light (yellow
light, blue light, red light, green
light etc)
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Create a Concept Map (Web)
and include each color they are
pointing out.
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Connection Key
Age Range
Toddlers and 2’s
Activity
•
Learn the letter S by singing S is for •
Shadow. Trace the letter and color
it. Count to 6 by counting the letters
of the words “shadow.” Develop
their vocabulary using the words
Thinking Tool
X Routine
Help them make observations of
real shadows, making
connections and descriptions.
Use the Thinking Routine to