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Böle förskola Piteå, Sweden

Eco Tweet: Little Scientists
Lesson Plan

Teachers: Karin Ceder and Carina Johansson

Age of students: 4-5 years old
Number of students: 13

Title: Water now and in the past
Category: science, language, history

General Purpose:
1. How do we get and how do we use water today
2. How did they use it in the past?
Specific objectives:
1. Learn more about water
2. By telling about the past, we learn to not take water in our houses for granted.

Methods and techniques: First we look at a Power Point of ways to use water today and in the
past, then we take a walk to Karin’s mother and look at a cold water spring and an outdoor loo!
Material: Computer,
Place: Inside and outside
Duration: One and a half hour

Description of the activity: We started by looking at a PowerPoint and then we took a walk to
Karin’s mother, there we could find a cold spring and also an outdoor loo. The children were
very active during the Power Point-presentation. They liked to see the pictures from the past
and they asked a lot of questions. Then we walked to Karin’s mother, who lives close to our
preschool. We went to the cold water spring, and we told the children about how they used the
spring in about hundred years ago and they all got to pump up the water. We went to the
outdoor loo. Many had seen one before, but not everyone.
Assessment: The children liked this activity very much! It was interesting for them to learn

about the past, and see with their own eyes how it was. Also it was good for them to see how
hard it could be for children in the past. The parents told us that their children liked this
activity very much, they have talked a lot about it at home!

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