Two of my favorite classroom activities are sensory bins and task boxes. So instead of using worksheets for kindergarten science I decided to create task boxes all about life science for our life science study. This past year with all of the Covid restrictions and needing supplies for individual children I decided to make individual sensory bins for the children to use to study the topics of life science. Before playing with the items in the sensory bins my students were to complete the everyday life science task box activity. This provided motivation especially if the sensory bin was one that they liked. My students could then use tools like tongs and scoopers to pull cards out of the sensory bins. This added an entirely new facet to the task box activities and increased their learning about life science. My students were excited to see what they would find in their bins each morning! These fun tongs are from Hobby Lobby. They always seem to have cute items for cheap when t...
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