Why is the sea and sky blue?

Date: 24th August 2015
Day: Monday
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Rainbow Colours
Teacher: Ms Yeong

Why is the sea and sky blue?

From the blue song that I played on last Friday, some of the children did ask why the sky is blue and why the ocean is blue as well? But when they observe their own water in their water bottle, it isn't blue in colour.

Therefore, today, I played them a video to explain why the sky and ocean is blue. Hopefully they could understand the scientific explanation given in the video.

Video Sharing: Why is the Sky Blue?

From the video, we learned that we could use some cellophane paper to observe the sky or even ocean (if we could) to see the changes of colours to it. I found some cellophane paper from the art corner and get the children to draw me some shapes on the cardboard so that I could paste the cellophane paper onto it for them to observe the changes of colours when they looked up a blue blue sky.