This September starts a new season with Creating with Books and I decided to recycle my first program presented in February of 2007 , Salt: What's Shaking?
I had 15 students mostly k-3 grades and a few 5th graders.
A good icebreaker is to introduce figure of speech that refer to salt like - salt of the earth. There are many sites that give reference to this and facts about salt.
I read experts from The Story of Salt by Mark Kurlansky. It is a very readable informative book on salt's value to all living beings, the impact salt had on historic civilization including settlements, revolution and war. We talked about salt as we know it today. We tasted crackers with and without salt.
I read
I had 15 students mostly k-3 grades and a few 5th graders.
A good icebreaker is to introduce figure of speech that refer to salt like - salt of the earth. There are many sites that give reference to this and facts about salt.
I read experts from The Story of Salt by Mark Kurlansky. It is a very readable informative book on salt's value to all living beings, the impact salt had on historic civilization including settlements, revolution and war. We talked about salt as we know it today. We tasted crackers with and without salt.
I read
We made mazes with salt and later made salt paintings.
The salt paintings originally were to be salt sprinkled on wet watercolor creating pattern bursts. The day before the program I experimented and it flopped, my husband is an artist and we exprerimented at home and found that you need to use high quality watercolor with actual dyes in the pigment. I moved to plan B, and that was to draw shapes on the watercolor paper with glue then sprinkle the shapes with salt, shaking off th excess and letting them dry. The kids then painted the pictures with watercolor paint and were happy to see how the salt asorbed the paint.
