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Instructional Leadership and)[ Instructional Leadership and](a. Instructional Leadership and)[ ](a. Instructional Leadership and)Academic Curriculum, College of Education, University of Oklahoma  \nArticle Info  \nReceived: March 30, 2024  \nAccepted: June 30, 2024  \nPublished: July 13, 2024  \n 10.46303/tpicd.2024.7  \nHow to cite  \nBeisly, A., & Moffitt, A. (2024) . Mixing it Up: Exploring Fizzical-Science through Play. Theory and Practice in Child Development, 4 (1), 108-117.  \n[https://doi.org/10.46303/tpicd.2024.7](https://doi.org/10.46303/tpicd.2024.7)  \nCopyright license  \nThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4 .0) .  \nABSTRACT  \nYoung children have many opportunities to investigate physical science and chemistry concepts through play and exploration. While formal chemistry lessons are not within the scope of an early childhood classroom, there are ways to encourage children to engage in the processes of chemists. This article presents a framework for how to structure science lessons in the classroom that build upon children’s theories and prior experiences. With a focus on mixing and how physical objects transform, we then present a variety of activities based on the framework, where children may deepen their knowledge of materials and interact through child-led explorations. We provide examples of how this can be done across many spaces (i.e. outdoors, the arts center) to honor the important work of play in early childhood classrooms and to highlight the many ways that children engage in science and theory-building throughout their day.  \nKEYWORDS  \nScience; play; chemistry; sensemaking; inquiry.  \nINTRODUCTION  \nStudies have explored children’s images of scientists by asking children to draw a scientist (see Ferguson & Lezotte, 2020 for a review) . Many children draw a mad scientist—someone with wild hair holding a beaker of glowing liquid that is bubbling or on the verge of explosion. The scientist is often in a lab wearing a lab coat and goggles or glasses. These images of scientists are pervasive in American media references- Doc Brown from Back to the Future, Doctor Frankenstein, and Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty) . Many books marketed towards children and teachers talk about science as magic, for example, Science Magic Tricks for Kids: 50 Amazing Experiments that Explode, Change Color, Glow and More! or The Science Spell Book: 30 Enchanting Experiments for Kids. This kind of marketing suggests that science is a mystical, mysterious process and that only the magician (i.e., the teacher) knows how to do science (with the sleight of hand) . As adults, we understand that scientists often do not work in labs or create toxic potions; scientific work takes many forms. How do we communicate the work of science to young children? Children are often described as natural scientists or naturally curious, and yet, how children see scientists and even how teachers introduce science can shift children’sideas about what science is and who can do science. This article will present a framework and activities that honor children’s curiosity and process of engaging in science, while also focusing on the practices and content that help children learn science.  \nChildren as Scientists  \nWe position our ideas about how children learn science from an inductive stance. Instead of science as a body of knowledge consisting of facts to memorize, we imagine science as a process children use to make sense of the world around them (Worth, 2010) . From this perspective, children gather data from birth and come to early childhood spaces with background knowledge built upon a rich network of experiences (Fragkiadaki et al., 2023) . Children go about the world trying to make sense of objects, animals,","cbCaigrW5rIWOMeD","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigrW5rIWOMeD","pdf",536959,"English","# Introduction\n## Children as Scientists\n## Science as Meaning-Making in Play\n# Framework for Fizzical-Science Activities\n## Mixing and Transformations\n# Activity Examples Across Learning Spaces\n## Outdoors and Arts Center","[{\"question\":\"What is the article’s main goal for teaching young children about physical science and chemistry?\",\"answer\":\"To present a framework for structuring science lessons that builds on children’s theories and prior experiences through play and exploration.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the framework emphasize children’s learning?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on processes of inquiry and sensemaking, especially mixing and observing how physical objects transform.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of activity settings does the article suggest for implementing these science experiences?\",\"answer\":\"It offers examples across many spaces, including outdoors and the arts center, to support child-led explorations throughout the day.\"}]","Mixing it Up: Exploring Fizzical-Science through Play - read online free | PDF",15]