Optional Activities
Optional Activities
Example sensory bin
Activities for Younger Learners
- Sensory Bin: Use any black base (black beans, dyed rice/salt, or black pom poms). Add scoops, funnels, and containers. As learners play, bring up the big ideas and discussion questions.
- Play Dough Singularity: Roll a tiny ball of play dough to represent the singularity. Have your learner squash it, then slowly pull and roll it into a long line to show the expansion of the universe over time.
Digging Deeper Activities
- Investigate an Interactive Timeline of the Big Bang
- Critically Think: Describe some scientific questions or unresolved issues scientists still investigate about the Big Bang. Here are a few articles Science.fm article and HowStuffWorks article that do not focus on a religious arguments.