Credit to Cikpuan Salleha Seth of Little Ibnu Sina.
I attended her workshop few years back while still homeschooling the children.
I love her ideas of introducing Science to children:
💡 Engage them with a story. Create characters. In this experiment, it was "Uncle Raisin."
💡 Skip the scientific term. Use simple words. Here, we used "zarah" in place of atom or molecules. Bonus ~ 💫 the word 'zarrah' is mentioned in the Quran, so it fits nicely with QLS.
To deliver the lesson, we incorporate The Whole Brain Teaching:
🎣 Less talk, more action.
So, where's the science in this activity?
1. Water is Allah's creation.
In water we see SIGNS of Allah's greatness.
2. The arrangement of zarah in water differs from solid and liquid.
3. In soda drink, we have the gas zarah + water zarah. They work as a team.
4. When Uncle Raisin, a solid, jumps into the pool of soda, he sinks and screams for help.
5. It is fitrah to help and care about others. The gas zarah is quick to help. Together, the gas zarah (carbon dioxide) attach themselves to Uncle Raisin to push him up.
6. This is an effort to reach a state of balance. Perfection. Equilibrium. (You can skip this big word if you like. For senior students, I exposed them to terms like this).
7. Only The Creator is The Most Perfect. The Most Stable. We can work hard towards being the best, but we can never be the best.
8. So, when Uncle Raisin hit the surface, does he live happily ever after like in fairy tale?
Other things happen.
New challenges arise.
9. The gas zarah pops, and Uncle Raisin drowns again.
10. The struggle continues. He goes up and down with the help of gas zarah in the water.
This is life.
Phew! Deep, indeed.
No pun intended.
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