Build Your Own Preschool Curriculum

Written by Mary Joyce


Putting together your own preschool curriculum can be accomplished in a variety of ways. Inrepparttar broad sense there isrepparttar 149048 option of purchasing a homeschool preschool program from one ofrepparttar 149049 many preschool curriculum providers.

Take onrepparttar 149050 approach of an everyday life experience with your preschooler. This is accomplished in a much less structured avenue. Lots of reading to your preschooler and exploring life and their world together emphasizing what they enjoy doing while they are learning. If you’re a bit stuck inrepparttar 149051 middle with what you prefer being a bit more onrepparttar 149052 structured side of a packaged preschool curriculum but your budget is definitely more in line withrepparttar 149053 latter, then why not design your own preschool curriculum!

Start with a rough outline of what your learning goals are for your preschooler. There are websites available with criteria that will help you with evaluating your child’s strengths and weaknesses. Just do a bit of searching on early childhood educational development evaluation criteria and you’ll find checklists that you can use.

After you have determined your learning objectives for your preschooler it is now time to searchrepparttar 149054 web for some ideas forrepparttar 149055 upcoming school year. At this young age a great tool to use for your topics and focus is right onrepparttar 149056 calendar! Userepparttar 149057 various seasons and holidays to develop broad theme type of learning material. At this agerepparttar 149058 learning is much more fun forrepparttar 149059 child and easy for you if you keeprepparttar 149060 overall environment colorful and relevant to what is going on in their life.

How does oil & dirt get washed away with soap?

Written by Dr. George Grant


We use soap each day in our lives inrepparttar form of detergents, shampoo, shower crème, hand soap or bar soap. We are so used to using soap that we rarely stop and wonder how this wonderful compound manages to help us clean ourselves day after day. Have you ever thought about what would happen if there were no soap? How else can we ridrepparttar 149047 dirt off our bodies or our clothes?

Most ofrepparttar 149048 time, dirt comes inrepparttar 149049 form of grease or oil which sticks itself onto surfaces and will not come off if only water is just used. This is because oil and grease are non-polar, which means thatrepparttar 149050 oil molecules are not charged and therefore are not attracted to polar substances such as water. Because of this, oil tends to stick with its own molecules or other non-polar substances.

Onrepparttar 149051 other hand, water is a polar substance which is made up of one positive and one negative charge, and therefore is a fragmented substance. With this, water dissolves salt easily because salt is made up of charged ions in whichrepparttar 149052 positive charge will be attracted torepparttar 149053 negative ions in water.

Due torepparttar 149054 fact ofrepparttar 149055 nature of oil and water, you will see that oil will not dissolve in water but remain clustered onrepparttar 149056 surface. Also, oil and grease will stick onto plates and cutlery during cleaning, and no amount of water can completely remove it. That’s when soap comes in. All it takes is just one layer of soap with water andrepparttar 149057 oil will be removed. How does this happen?

Well, soap is a unique substance of potassium fatty acid salts, produced through a chemical reaction called saponification. Its molecules are made up of a hydrocarbon chain, which is non-polar, as well as a carboxylate molecule which is polar. Therefore,repparttar 149058 non-polar part ofrepparttar 149059 soap –repparttar 149060 hydrocarbon chain, is not attracted to water but to oil (lipophilic). Onrepparttar 149061 other hand,repparttar 149062 carboxylate molecules which are negatively charged, are attracted torepparttar 149063 positively charged water molecules (hydrophilic).

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