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“Can You Fix It?” Science Center

By Karen Cox | Affiliate Disclosure

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This is a simple and safe activity for the science center for exploring electronics and how they work.

Can You Fix It: Flashlight Science Center

I bought a simple, inexpensive flashlight, took it apart, and placed it on the science shelf. Children put it back together like a puzzle through trial and error. Once they get all the pieces together correctly, the flashlight will turn on!

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  1. Darlene Moore says

    February 22, 2010 at 11:13 pm

    I loved the science ideas and will use them in my classroom! Thanks!!!

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  2. Elise says

    February 23, 2010 at 6:25 am

    I have just been looking through some of my books and the net trying to locate some science experiments to do with my three year old daughter. I was delighted to stop by here and see your great ideas. i really like the idea of trial and error with the flashlight.

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  3. shirley says

    February 24, 2010 at 8:39 am

    This is an idea withe simple science experiments! Great blog!

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  4. Eilis says

    February 24, 2010 at 7:56 pm

    I put out the flashlight activity today. I had a very small class because so many are out sick. Of course I am sorry that the kids are out sick, but the few of us that were there had such a great day. You can be so much more flexible with a small group! Anyway, after they very easily put the flashlights together, they took them to the puppet center, turned off the lights, and put on a shadow show. I loved their creativity!

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  5. Clemencia says

    February 24, 2010 at 8:40 pm

    what an awesome idea, I LOVE IT!!!!
    very simple and lots of fun for them 🙂
    thanks so much for sharing 🙂

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  6. Adrienne says

    February 25, 2010 at 11:47 am

    Awesome ideas! It is always good to see what other teachers are doing out in the field.Thank you

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  7. Amy Johnson says

    February 27, 2010 at 10:41 pm

    How often do you change out your centers especially your science center and your sensory table?

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    • Karen says

      February 28, 2010 at 1:19 pm

      Amy, I don’t have any set schedule for changing out the centers. As long as they are interested in something, I leave it there. If I see their interest waning, I change it. Typically, a sensory table might stay for about 2 weeks. In the science center, some things might stay 2 weeks, some might stay a month, but I have at least 4-5 different activities on the science shelf at a time. In the math & literacy center, I make sure I have some items related to whatever I’ve recently introduced, say if it’s patterns, I have materials for making patterns, but there are also counting activities, sorting, sizes, etc.

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  8. MARIA VILLASENOR says

    March 15, 2010 at 9:01 am

    What would be a good PK science project using a poster?
    Thanks

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  9. judy says

    March 17, 2010 at 1:16 pm

    I need to make a 4 year old learning center. Every idea I have come up with the teacher says be more creative. She says she wants to see something she has never seen before. I am lost………. can someone give me an idea.
    Thanks
    JD

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  10. Krissie says

    January 15, 2015 at 9:36 pm

    This is a great idea! Are there any other kid-safe and kid-accessible gadgets that kids can take apart and put together besides a flashlight?

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  11. Abby says

    February 18, 2017 at 9:48 pm

    When you do these types of activities how do you manage it? For instance, is the expectation that they put it together and then take it apart for the next person? Or are you working with them? Do the kids come back after the have done it once? I’m just curious. All of my center activities are open ended so I wouldn’t have any clue how to incorporate one with a final task! 😳 Thank you!

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    • Karen Cox says

      February 20, 2017 at 6:35 pm

      It’s not something that I manage, really, and there’s not a set expectation. I just let them put it together and take it apart as they choose. If one person leaves it put together then someone else can come along and take it apart. I set it up as shown and introduce it to the children, then it’s theirs to use without me regulating it.

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