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Date: 10/13/2015
Grade: First
Title of Unit:
All About Matter
States Standards Met:
S.K-2.C.1.1.1: Describe basic changes to properties of matter (e.g., formation of mixtures and solutions, baking and
cooking, freezing, heating, evaporating, melting).
S.K-2.A.1.1.1: Identify a scientific fact as something that can be observed using the five senses.
Next Generation Science Standards Met:
2-PS1-1. Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable
properties.
2-PS1-2. Analyze data obtained from testing different materials to determine which materials have the properties that are
best suited for an intended purpose.*
Objectives:
DOK L1: Students will be able to identify a change of matter.
DOK L2: Students will be able to describe how folding, tearing, cutting, and breaking change the properties of matter.
Essential Question(s):
How can matter change?
Materials Required:
Construction paper, scissors, molding clay, crackers, aluminum foil, a piece of bread, worksheets, pencils, aprons, napkins.
Vocabulary:
Cutting, folding, breaking, tearing, matter, change.
Summary of Lesson:
Changing the properties of matter.
Procedure:
Before: (approx. 15 minutes) Anticipatory Set
The teacher will introduce the lesson title.
The teacher will ask the students how they think matter can change. The students will think pair share and then
share out loud with the class. (Elaboration)
The students will look at the picture handout.
The teacher will have the children brainstorm answers to the question How were the foods changed to make the
palm tree and the sailboat? (Explanation)
The teacher will ask them to identify the foods used to form the pictures, and describe what was done to the foods
to shape it.
*Remind children that active readers make texts their own by marking them to writing notes to help
them understand what they are reading. Encourage children to use pencil to make annotations and to
feel free to change their marks and notes as they read. The goal of annotation is to help children
remember what they have read. (Engagement)
During: (approx. 30 minutes)