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Wind Can Push Things

Wind and Air

Day 123of 180
Week 25of 36
15Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Understand that wind can move objects

2

Explore how wind pushes different lightweight items

3

Develop curiosity about God's creation of wind

📖 Scripture Connection

Ecclesiastes 1:6

“The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.”

— Ecclesiastes 1:6 (WEB)

Demonstrates how wind moves and changes direction, just like in our lesson about wind pushing things

📦 Materials Needed

  • Feathers
  • Pinwheel
  • Bubble wand
  • Bubble solution
  • Small lightweight scarf
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (3 min)

Welcome to today's BibleMouse science adventure! Remember how we learned yesterday that wind is moving air?

💭 Review Question: Can you show me how the wind moved things yesterday?
2Teaching (5 min)

Today we'll discover how wind can push things! God created wind to move objects in amazing ways.

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • Wind is invisible but very powerful
  • Wind can move light things easily
  • We can make wind by blowing or using a fan
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • What light things do you think wind can move?
  • Can you blow like the wind?
3Activity: Wind Exploration Station (6 min)
hands-on

Experiment with how wind pushes different objects

📝 Instructions:
  1. Blow a feather and watch it float
  2. Spin a pinwheel by blowing on it
  3. Blow bubbles and watch them move
  4. Wave a scarf and feel the wind you create
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Parent helps child blow or move objects

Challenge: Child tries to blow objects across a table

4Closing (3 min)

Let's remember how God made wind to move things in His wonderful world!

📝 Review Questions:
  • What did we learn about wind today?
  • What was your favorite thing that wind moved?

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll learn about different types of wind - some strong, some gentle!

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

Wind demonstrates God's creative power in moving objects

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Use gentle encouragement
  • Let child explore and experiment
  • Supervise closely during activities
🤔 Common Struggles:

Keeping focus and understanding abstract concept of invisible wind

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Child's excitement about moving objects with wind

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Use BibleMouse Printables Library wind-themed coloring page
  • Sing a BibleMouse song about God's creation

Ready for Tomorrow?

Great job completing today's lesson!

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