Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 (Version C)

Lesson
Compressed Air and Bernoullis Principle
Title/Focus
Subject/Grad
Science Div II (4,5,6)
e Level
Unit

Air and Aerodynamics

Date

November 20

Time
40 min
Duration
Teacher

Miss Kleckner

OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES

General
Learning
Outcomes:
Specific
Learning
Outcomes:

65
Describe properties of air and the
interactions of air with objects in flight
Provide evidence that air is a fluid and is capable of being compressed, and
identify examples of these properties in everyday applications.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Students will:
1. Identify defintion of compressed air
2. Explain new concepts
3. Demonstrate crititical thinking through predictions

ASSESSMENTS
Observations:

Key Questions:

Products/Performanc

observe students as they fill out their investigative report. Are they
making thorough predictions which include an educated guess and a
reason?
What is compressed air?
What are examples of compressed air in our daily lives?

es:

LEARNING RESOURCES CONSULTED

Elementary Science Program of Studies

AIr and Aerodynamics Edmonton Public
Schools

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

paper plate
balloon
tape
paper
book

PROCEDURE
Prior to lesson
Introduction
Attention Grabber

-Blow on a piece of paper taped to a book (air pressure)

Time
1 min

Assessment of Prior
-Review of air pressure
Knowledge
Expectations for
-Expectation that students stay in their seats except for when the
Learning and
demonstration is occurring as they may need to get up to see.
Behaviour
Transition to Body
Body

Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe

Time

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Learning Activity
#1

Review of Air Pressure

-Ask students what happened to the piece of paper when I blew
across the book.
-Begin by asking students what happened in the experiment
yesterday.

10 min

-Why did the balloon inflate or not inflate?

-Ask students to give real-life examples of air pressure at work.
Eg. drinking from a straw.

Teacher Notes:
Assessments/
Differentiation

Learning Activity
#2

-thumbs up, thumbs down if you know what air pressure is

Compressed Air
-We will discuss what compressed air is and then come up with
examples of compressed air in real life
-Ask: what is compressed air? What are examples in everyday
life of compressed air?
-I will begin by asking what is compressed air? to the whole group
-Once we have generated an idea of what compressed air is, I will
get the students to come up with a list of everyday examples of
compressed air. They all need to come up with examples as I will
be picking random students with popsicle sticks to provide an
answer

20 min

-Next I will draw an example on the board of how air moves

through spaces depending on how wide or narrow they are.
-Students will then be introduced to the Air Powered Rocket
experiment.
-Students will make predictions about what will happen when the
air is released from the balloon. They will write these predictions
down as well as other information about the experiment
(materials, observations, conclusions). I will then pick random
popsicle sticks to get students predictions.

Teacher Notes:
Assessments/
Differentiation

Consolidation of
Learning:
Feedback From
Students:
Feedback To
Students

-After the demonstration students will discuss what happened

and fill out their conclusions
-Popsicle sticks to assess students individually
-Experiment chart with information (shows their predictions,
observations and conclusions)
Closure

-quick assessment of students knowledge of compressed air

using red light, green light

Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe

Time

5 min

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Transition To Next
Lesson
Sponge
Activity/Activities

-Put your papers into your binders and get ready for recess

-Activity package

In this lesson I performed another demonstration for students to teach them

about compressed air. At the beginning of the lesson I reviewed air pressure
to refresh students minds about the last topic we had discussed. I also read
the comments that students had written on their exit slips last time without
giving any names. The kids were really interested in hearing what their
fellow classmates had written on their exit slips. We also started off the class
by coming up with examples of compressed air in real life in a large class
discussion. For this particular lesson, I introduced an investigative chart in
which the students had to fill out question, hypothesis, materials, procedure,
Reflections from the
observations, and conclusions. I was surprised to find that the students were
lesson
all very enthused when it came to this chart. Some students were confused
about what procedure and hypothesis meant so I explained these more
thoroughly for the class. Its a little difficult to do experiments where the
whole class gets to perform there own due to not being able to obtain all the
materials, but I would like to find an experiment to do with little materials so
each of the students can perform it themselves. After the experiment
students finished filling out their charts. I drew an example of compressed
air on the board to better help students understand how air moves in wide
spaces, versus narrow.

Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe

Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 (Version C)

Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe