Change!
Date: 6/25/15
Class: KIN 355 3rd Grade
Equipment: handouts with different scenerios of
Time: 8:30 am
changes in matter.
Term: Summer
Targeted NASPE Standard(s): NASPE Standards 1, 2, 4, 5, 6
Specific Objective: By the end of this lesson, the students will be able to
demonstrate the ability to correctly identify the way molecules move in a solid,
liquid and gas and demonstrate how they change from one state to another.
Concomitant Objective: The students will stay physically active.
Time
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Minutes
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30
Seconds
3
Minutes
Procedures Followed
Warm Up: NONE NEEDED
Transition:
- Students sitting in their seats to begin.
Set Induction:
- How many of you have ever eaten a Popsicle
before? How about on a hot day? What happened to
the Popsicle? It melted! That is called a change in
matter.
Learnable Piece:
- Today we are going to learn how to represent what is
happening to the states of matter, solid liquids and
gases, when they change.
- Lets review what is matter?
o Matter is anything that takes up space, and
has mass!
o It cannot be created or destroyed.
o Matter is found in three forms- solid, liquid and
gas.
- Alright, can I have everyone hold up their fist. Your
fist today is going to represent a molecule!
- Solids
o Have a defined shape.
o The molecules are tightly packed together,
there is very little room for wiggling- and
molecules like to wiggle!
o Take your two molecules (two fists) and stick
them together and wiggle. This is a solid!
o Thumbs up if you understand!
Materials
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Seconds
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Minutes
Liquids
o Take the shape of their container.
o The molecules in a liquid slide past each
other, they have more room to wiggle!
o Take your two molecules, and slide them past
each other.
Gas
o Take no shape.
o Molecules in a gas are wild! They move very
fast in all directions!
o Now stand up and move an arms length away
from the person next to you, take your
molecules and move them around quickly up
in the air! This is a gas!
Now we are going to take what we know about these
states of matter and you are going to be given a
scenario and you will have to show me with your
bodies what happens when a state changes!
Transition:
- Now, Im going to put you into four groups and give
you a piece of paper. On your piece of paper there is
a scenario describing melting, freezing, evaporation
or condensation.
Guided Activity Time with Corrective Feedback:
- With your group, you will identify which one it is and
together with your bodies being a molecule, how you
can represent the two different states that occur.
- We can do an example. Looking back at the Popsicle
we were talking about earlier, it started out as a solidso the molecules were wiggling close to each other.
When it was in the sun it melted, so the molecules
are now in a liquid moving past each other.
CHECKING FOR UNDERSTANDING:
As a group, what will you do first?
Then?
- What are you going to use to represent a molecule?
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Minutes
Possible Modifications:
- Add in Sublimation or Deposition
Have each group demonstrate all four kinds of changes.
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Minutes
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Minutes
It rained and puddles were all over the ground. When the
sun came out, the puddles were gone. What is this change
in matter?