Science Experiments

Posted on by : Kasey Wade Tags:

Are you feeling like you’re spending a lot of time at home with your little ones in running out of new ways to keep them entertained? Well never fear, because I have plenty of great and time-consuming activity is coming your way! It is a little known fact that I was actually homeschooled up until my sophomore year of high school and while I don’t fit a lot of the stereotypes, I do love a good craft and a good science experiment. I have found that bringing these science experiments into kiddos homes during our speech therapy sessions prove extremely beneficial Not only in teaching new concepts but also in expanding vocabulary, following directions, and even practicing our sounds! There are so many fun experiments that require minimal shopping and have proven fan favorites time and time again! My two favorites include the skittle rainbow and Making a volcano. Below are a few ways that you could build speech and language into these simple experiments!

  1. Give your child a direction and see if they can follow it without you needing to repeat yourself or showing them with any sort of gesture what you were talking about.
  2. Have your child narrate what you are doing to get the experiment ready
  3. Ask them to predict what they think will happen when you perform your experiment
  4. Filled your speech sound practice into your activity, for example if you are practicing the sound “S” you might practice saying: skittles, slow, explode, baking soda!
  5. Take pictures of your science experiment and have your child put them together in a sequenced order to retell the experiment to a loved one over FaceTime!

If you need help finding experiments that will work for your child at any age or level, message us and we will give you a personalized recommendation! Follow the links below and check out our pictures to see how we do these experiments during our speech and language therapy sessions J

-Kasey

Skittles

https://www.science-sparks.com/skittles-experiment/

Volcano

https://www.sciencefun.org/kidszone/experiments/how-to-make-a-volcano/