In this story time program, children and their parents/caregiver actively listen to "Horton Hears a Who!" by Dr. Seuss. Before the story is read, children make paper "elephant ears" to wear. After the story, they use their sense of smell to explore scent molecules that are too small to see. (Nano)
Learning Goals
As a result of participating in this program, children will be introduced to the idea that there are very small things, too small for our eyes to see.
As a result of participating in this program, children will be introduced to the idea that our sense of smell can sometimes detect particles that are too small to see.
New Word: Nanometer-sized things are very small, and often behave differently than larger things do.
Prep Work:
Cut out ears
Make head bands (Cardstock and 12x18 construction paper)
Instructions:
Have kids sit at craft tables with their parents.
Color and cut out ears. Have parents assemble the ears into a hat using the white strips of paper.
Children go to storytime rug to listen to Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss.
Note: Review the story and plan how you will read it aloud. Horton Hears a Who is a long book, and can be difficult to keep the attention of our younger patrons. You might want to skip some of the pages to shorten the book.
Read the beginning of the book up to the part where Horton hears the voice (Read up to "Humpf" humpfed a voice....." Skip the middle of the book. Read the end of the book where all the whos make enough noise to be heard.
After Story:
Do you know what? There really are things that are too small to see. Horton can sense these things with his ears. We can use another sense to detect some of them. We don't have a long trunks like an elephant but we have noses. What do we do with our noses?
We smell with our noses! We can smell tiny little things in the air that are too small for your eyes to see. These tiny things are called molecules.
I am going to bass out something special that will let you use your nose to smell tiny things. (Pass out stickers).
Kids can put stickers on their headbands.
Material:
Horton Ears: On tool page printed on white cardstock
Head bands cut out using 12x18 white construction paper
Crayons
Scissors or tape
Stapler or tape to attach head band to ears
Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss
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