Bubble Festival: Presenting Bubble Activities in a Learning Station Format

by Jacqueline Barber and Carolyn Willard

Book Overview

This guide for grades Kindergarten-6 outlines twelve learning stations that encourage independent thinking and cooperative learning -- bringing fun and excitement to the classroom, while bubbling over with science and math. From Bubble Shapes and Bubble Measurement to Bubble Skeletons and Body Bubbles, intriguing and classroom-appropriate bubble activities are featured.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 091251180X
• ISBN13: 9780912511801
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Great Explorations
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 5 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 6

Customer Reviews

A fun learning tool for children

This book is based on using bubbles as a learning tool, which was originally presented at Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science. In other words -" Learning should be fun". Science should be fun; if it is presented appropriately, children will embrace it. The book of course is quite basic. My interest in this subject goes beyond the limits of this book, but if you are looking for a structured plan for young children to learn in, then this book will give you some ideas.I have one problem with the book, and that is they you pipe cleans formed in the shape of a square, cube, triangle, and then dip it into a bubble solution--They call this making a square or cubic bubble. It will of course cause a film to adhere to the shape made, but I would have rather seen instruction for actually blowing a cubic bubble by using a wand and straw. I thought that it would be nice if they showed how to make structures such as carousels or bouncing bubbles. This of course maybe too advance for the age of the children the book was intended for, but not for those teaching.