5 Es

Lesson

Explore

Learning Experience

1. Gauge Students attention by showing the Short Movie

compilation that the students created in the engage lesson.
2. Gather students onto the group mat and explain the Erupting
volcano experiment.
To do this experiment we need to:

Assessment

Formative
Assessment

Cross Curriculum
Literacy &
Numeracy

Literacy

Dig a small hole in the sand to fit the bottom of the bottle.

Build up sand around the volcano to cover the bottle to look like
a volcano.

Fill of the bottle with vinegar.

Add 5 drops of red dye.

Numeracy

Add 4 drops of detergent.

Then add 2 tablespoons of baking soda which will make the

volcano erupt.

Collection,
representation and
interpretation of
data from
investigations.

4. Ask questions while setting up the experiment.

- What does the bottle in the sand represent?
- What are we going to put in our volcano first?
(Add of the bottle with vinegar)
- What else to we need to add?

Erupting volcano experiment

Understanding how Resources for experiment:

scientific
- Clear 1L water bottle
knowledge is
- Vinegar
produced (Explore,
- Red food colouring
analyse and
- Detergent
communicate).
- Baking soda
- Sandpit

3. Ask students to collect their hats and line up at the door. Walk
students down to the sandpit in two straight lines. Ask students
to sit on the edge of the sand pit and in a position where they
can all see where the experiment will take place.

Resources & ICT

Science journal/pencil

(add 4 drops of detergent and 5 drops of red dye)

Why are we using red dye? What does it represent?

5. Before we continue the experiment, ask students to form pairs

and predict what they think might happen when the baking soda
is added into the bottle (volcano).
6. Add 2 tablespoons of baking soda into the bottle and wait for it
to explode.
What came out of the volcano when it erupted?
7. Ask students to stand up quietly into 2 straight lines and return
to the classroom.
8. Once students are back in the classroom they will take out their
science books and write down the process of the experiment and
some observations of what happened at different times during
the experiment. Students can also draw a representation of the
experiment. Remind students to use terms such as Erupting,
lava, volcano, etc).

Justification for the Explore lesson

The purpose of the Explore lesson is for students to be able to participate
in open investigations to explore the phenomenon of volcanoes.
Exploring and inquiring questions that students may have is done
through the Erupting Volcano investigation. Students are given the
opportunity to predict what may happen and have their predictions
either confirmed or denied through their observation of the experiment.