DEVELOPMENTAL DOMAIN CONCEPT MAP
PHYSICAL: Fine Motor
- Making sediment jars
- Soil testing
- Making soil crayons
- Making paint out of soil
- Soil discovery table
- Rock painting
- Making soil
- Soil sensory tub
- Make a mini world
- Making shapes in wet soil
PERSONAL / SOCIAL / EMOTIONAL
- Painting with soil
- Creating pictures with rocks
- Outline of your body with rocks
- Planting
- Dirt foot spa
- Cooking with soil and rocks
- Exploring what is in soil – bugs,
leaves, dirt.
- Creating art with rocks and glue
CREATIVE / AESTHETIC PHYSICAL: Gross Motor
- Making paint with soil - Digging in soil
- Soil Playdough - Outdoor kitchen – cooking with
- Rock painting soil and rocks.
- Ice melting with rocks - Rock tossing
- Creating edible soil - Rock scavenger hunt
- Gardening
- Building with mud (soil)
Concept: Rocks and Soil Term: 3 Weeks: 1-4
COGNITIVE / LANGUAGE SPIRITUAL / MORAL
- Soil search with ABC’s - DIY soil worm farm
- Soil discovery table - Compost in a bottle
- Soil playdough – construction sensory play - Soil and worm sensory tub
- Counting with rocks - Pet rocks
- Alphabet letters with chalk and rocks - Exploring soil layers – How the
- Sorting and classifying rocks Earth is made.
- Made a mini world
- Reading literature (Soil, rocks,
the Earth)
- Meditation while exploring
soil.