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Hi,
I have struggled with the below questions, could someone please let me know if what i have written is correct!, not sure if i have answered the cause and effect part of the questions appropriately!! Thank you very much

10. Write down three (3) sensory experiences. For each experience, give two (2) different ways you could modify the basic activity to extend a two to three year old’s understanding of cause and effect.
Answer :
Children learn best and retain the most information when they engage their senses. Sensory experiences help the child to explore and it stimulates their senses of touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing, naturally encouraging them to use scientific process through play. Sensory Play benefits their cognitive development, language/speech development, social/emotional development, gross and fine motor skill development and their creative and imaginative development.
Example of sensory experience would be :
1. Setting up a music corner with drums, shakers, triangles etc. (Sound sensory)
- get the children to listen to the different sounds and differentiate between hard and soft sounds
- get the children to make different sequence of sounds, rythyms by listening and then repeating the sequence.
2. Making an Antartic ocean water table, using ice and water with plastic sealife creatures, coral etc. in the water table to create a sealife environment. (touch and sight sensory)
- Get the children to feel the ice, get them to describe how it feels and how it feels different to the water when frozen, talk to them about the process it has gone through from water to ice.
- Put some ice in a separate container to watch what happens to it when left out of the freezer, get them to observe it and ask them what they see.
3. Use different colours and fragrances of rice in a tray with coloured cotton balls and beads etc. (Touch and smell sensory), touching an filling up and emptying containers
- Get the children to sort out different colours in different pots, putting together colours of rice, cotton wool, beads in the same colour pot.
- Get them to smell the rice and tell you what they think it is and what it reminds them of or is similar to.

Your sensory experiences are good however you may need to re think the cause and effect part of the question.

Things happen for a reason: there is a cause for every effect. In science, the cause explains why something happens. The effect is the description of what happened.

Put some ice in a separate container to watch what happens to it when left out of the freezer, get them to observe it and ask them what they see.

This clearly explains cause and effect!

Here is some more information: Cause and Effect

Hope this helps,

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Lorina

Hi Lorina,
Thank you for your response, i have changed the cause and effects, do you think these are better??, if not, would you be able to give me an example.
Thank you so much
10. Write down three (3) sensory experiences. For each experience, give two (2) different ways you could modify the basic activity to extend a two to three year old’s understanding of cause and effect.
Answer :
Children learn best and retain the most information when they engage their senses. Sensory experiences help the child to explore and it stimulates their senses of touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing, naturally encouraging them to use scientific process through play. Sensory Play benefits their cognitive development, language/speech development, social/emotional development, gross and fine motor skill development and their creative and imaginative development.
Example of sensory experience would be :
1. Setting up a music corner with drums, shakers, triangles etc. (Sound sensory)
- get the children to listen to the different sounds and differentiate between hard and soft sounds, get them to bang hard on a drum and softly and ask whats the difference in noise and why the sound is different.
- Get the children to think of how to make their own musical instrument and see if they can make a similar sound to the musical instruments they already have, for example, using a spoon on another metal item can sound like a triangle, using a wooden spoon on a plastic container, sound like a drum, getting them to think about the use of soft on soft and soft on hard etc..
2. Making an Antartic ocean water table, using ice and water with plastic sealife creatures, coral etc. in the water table to create a sealife environment. (touch and sight sensory)
- Get the children to feel the ice, get them to describe how it feels and how it feels different to the water when frozen, Fill up a cup of water and place it in the freezer, when frozen talk to them about the process it has gone through from water to ice.
- Put some ice in a separate container to watch what happens to it when left out of the freezer, get them to observe it and ask them what they see and why it is melting.
3. Use different colours and fragrances of rice in a tray with coloured cotton balls and beads, tubes etc. (Touch and smell sensory), touching and filling up and emptying containers
- Get the children to put the rice through different size tubes, get them to see if the size of the tube makes a difference to how fast the rice comes out.
- Add the rice to a measuring jug of water, get the children to add different colours together and see what different colours they can make.

Thank you Lorina, you have been so helpful