Teacher: Lauren Murray

Lesson Idea Name: States of Matter

Content Area Addressed: Science
Grade Level(s): 2nd grade
Content Standard Addressed:
S2P1. Students will investigate the properties of matter and changes that occur.

Technology Standard Addressed:

3 – Knowledge Constructor

Selected Technology Tool:

Flocabulary.com
Login: username- pinellas
Password- pinellas

URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable):

https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/three-states-of-matter/

Bloom’s Taxonomy Level(s):

☒ Remembering ☒ Understanding ☒ Applying ☐ Analyzing ☐ Evaluating ☐
Creating

Levels of Technology Integration (LoTi Level):

☐ Level 1: Awareness ☐ Level 2: Exploration ☐ Level 3: Infusion ☒ Level 4: Integration
☐ Level 5: Expansion ☐ Level 6: Refinement

Universal Design for Learning (UDL):

This tool is easily accessible and there is an app; it can be accessed both at school and at home. This
instructional software incorporates fun and engaging music videos to help teach various content areas.
The music videos include tons of visuals to aid understanding. Additionally, there is a link to lyrics to
the music videos/transcripts. At the end of the videos, you can choose to play interactive games and/or
take a quiz that gives immediate feedback.
Lesson idea implementation:
The entire lesson will take 30-40 minutes; the Flocabulary video is just the introduction to the
material and it serves as an attention-grabber. The teacher will begin by relating what the
students will be learning to their background experiences involving the states of matter:
showing the class images of unfrozen popsicles, frozen popsicles, and steam. While
introducing key vocabulary, the class will have a brief discussion about the characteristics and
the teacher will remind students of what they learned the year before about the states of matter
found in weather. Then, the teacher will lead this into the Flocabulary video.
The video will be played two-three times. The teacher and students will complete a
graphic organizer divided into three parts: solids, liquids, and gasses. The students will work
with their groups to identify as many of the states of matter as they can from the video.
Students will be assessed at the end of this graphic organizer activity as they share their
answers with the class. Additionally, the Flocabulary video quiz will be used to quiz the class
as a whole. Feedback will be given immediately which is very convenient. The Flocabulary
video will serve as a visual to teach and relate the content to. The song is very catchy and
engaging.
I would conclude the lesson by doing a science experiment- making a Coca Cola Float.
Students will be shown the icecream, the coke, and the reaction the two make: bubbles. As a
ticket out the door, students will identify the items and the corresponding states of matter from
our experiment.

Reflective Practice:
These activities would impact student learning by showing the students that learning is fun and
exciting. With this lesson, the students would be able to enjoy the song about the content relevant to
our lesson. Ideally, the students would share what they learned about the app with their families and
they would explore the educational tutorials on the app even more at home. This activity was designed
as an introductory activity to a unit on the states of matter. Next, we would discuss physical and
chemical changes. It would be really cool to find some sort of simulation relating to this material- I’ll
have to look more into this.