Big Science for Little Hands is Science World’s professional-development workshop series for Early Childhood Educators. We provide two-hour workshops where participants try out a variety of fun, hands-on science activities suitable for early learners.
There are three workshops to choose from.
Explore all the different ways that bubbles float and fizzy mixtures pop and explode!
Discover what is super special about YOU! Explore all that your body can do, both inside and out.
Have your early learners ever been fascinated by birds? In Feathered Flyers, you'll learn to help them explore how incredible birds are!
From learning how flight works to observing birds in the outdoors, you'll learn tools to help children 3 to 5 years old understand the world around them. By combining science, art, and movement, you'll learn to help early learners take simple measurements, chart their findings, and even choreograph their own bird dance!
Feathered Flyers is a hands-on way to introduce young explorers to STEAM, from a bird’s eye view.
Fees do not include GST
For more information and to request a workshop, email [email protected].
These free activities are meant to serve as a starting point for early-childhood scientific exploration. There are currently eighteen themed resources available for download from our website:
The Air Up There: Activities to explore wind and air.
The Air Up There II*: Explore floating and flying through the air, and never forget it's there.
Amazing Me: Discover the amazing things your body can do, both inside and out.
Balance This*: Practice your own acrobatics and build mini acrobats.
Bubble & Fizz*: Explore how bubbles are formed (and popped!).
Gadgets and Contraptions: Explore simple machines and how they work.
Mysterious Mixtures: Dissolving, separating, mixing and combining.
Reflections and Shadows: Activities to explore light, mirrors, reflection and shadows.
Rockin' Rocks*: Dig for fossils, or create your own.
Round The Circle: Circles and wheels, rolling and spinning.
Salt & Fresh Water*: Explore how salt affects water and observe the details of creatures that live in oceans.
Size Matters: Explore growing and shrinking.
Sticky Stuff: Velcro, glue and other sticky things.
Structures*: Explore what materials and designs are best for building.
Super Sleuths: Practice science process skills such as observing, comparing and contrasting and using tools like magnifiers.
Super Slueths II*: Use your senses in unsual ways.
Trees & Plants*: Activities to explore what plants are.
Wet & Dry: Wet and dry bags, sponges and sand castles.
*Produced in collaboration with the Nanaimo Science and Sustainability Society
Looking for more science ideas? Check out our favourite science websites.
Questions to ask while exploring science with preschoolers. Available in 8 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Farsi, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Punjabi.
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Artist: Jeff Kulak
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Michelle is a designer with a focus on creating joyful digital experiences! She enjoys exploring the potential forms that an idea can express itself in and helping then take shape.
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Michelle is a designer with a focus on creating joyful digital experiences! She enjoys exploring the potential forms that an idea can express itself in and helping then take shape.
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Artist: Ty Dale
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Artist: Ty Dale
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Artist: Ty Dale
From Canada, Ty was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1993. From his chaotic workspace he draws in several different illustrative styles with thick outlines, bold colours and quirky-child like drawings. Ty distils the world around him into its basic geometry, prompting us to look at the mundane in a different way.