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Invisible Number Sensory Bin

STEM Lesson Plans

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Lesson plan developed by Aurora Tollestrup, BS Ed

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Activity:  

Invisible Number Sensory Bin

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Age Group:

• Toddler

Invisible Number Sensory Bin

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Objectives:  

Children will:

• experience a new sensory activity while becoming familiar with numbers.

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CDA Competency Standard:

II.4.3a

• Activities and materials encourage children to develop their senses.
  

a) Sight, sound, smell, taste and touch experiences are encouraged through a variety of developmentally appropriate materials and activities

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Materials: 

• hot glue gun
• parchment paper or cutting board
• colored dry rice
• large bin
• pptional: tools such as scoops, brushes, cups

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Procedure: 

• Prepare the materials by making numbers out of hot glue on the parchment paper or cutting board.
  
• When the letters are cooled and dry, peel them off and mix them in the bin with the colored rice.
• Invite the children to explore the sensory bin and discover the “invisible” numbers.
  
• Provide scoops, cups, brushes or other tools to move the rice around, if you desire.

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Assessment: 

Observe the children’s ability to recognize numbers that they’ve seen before. Did they know the names of the numbers?

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How to Support Math for Toddlers

Toddlers are busy and are at the perfect developmental stage for absorbing math concepts. It is important to support those budding math skills as much as possible. Some suggestions for supporting math for toddlers are: 

Play games ​
Play games that support math skill acquisition.

Help in the kitchen ​
Toddlers can help measure, pour, stir, and scoop in the kitchen. This teaches them about measurement which is an important math concept.

Shape play 
Talk about shapes, sizes, sides, and colors of shapes that you see all around. You can play a shape scavenger hunt game or I Spy. 

Give choices 
Give the toddler choices by asking questions (e.g. would you rather use the square block or the rectangle block?)

Solicit help ​
Solicit the help of toddlers in passing things out, organizing toys, placing things in the trash. This supports the development of spatial relationships.

​Talk about it ​
Talk about math concepts frequently. Point out shapes, numbers, patterns, quantities and more.

​Make it fun 
​Make math fun for toddlers. Praise them for their efforts and make math an exciting part of their day!

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