💡 Preschool STEM in Action: Exploring Light Through Colored Water
This week in our preschool STEM corner, we dove into a magical world of light, color, and water! Using simple materials and a lot of curiosity, our little scientists experimented with how light travels through different colors—and the results were just as exciting as a rainbow!
🔍 What We Learned:
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Light can change color when it passes through a transparent material.
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Mixing colors of water shows how primary colors combine to form secondary colors.
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Observation skills were strengthened as we described what we saw using words like “glow,” “shine,” “bright,” and “colorful.”
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We practiced hypothesizing (“What do you think will happen if we mix blue and yellow water?”) and testing our ideas—just like real scientists!
Why It Matters:
STEM at the preschool level is all about playful exploration. Through this experiment, children learned about basic physics (light and color) while also building language, fine motor, and critical thinking skills.
🏠 Try It at Home!
This is a simple and fun activity to do in your kitchen or backyard. Ask your child to predict what will happen when you shine light through a certain color—and talk about what you observe together!
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