Enduring Essential Question Focus Question Science Idea Learning Activities Assessment

Understanding Competency Strategies

The uses of What are the What TEACHING

are ObjectsMATTER (GRADES
may also Group1-2)objects that Objective: Group objects Students will be given
matter are different properties different ways of be described as to are hot or cold, that are hot or cold response cards
determined by of matter? describing their hotness or heavy or light, Activities: "Hot and cold" indicating "hot" and
their properties. objects? coldness, brittle or not, easy Kids Songs & Nursery "cold" to match with
heaviness or or hard to bend, Rhymes by Little Angel more example of
lightness, hard or soft, -Illustrate what are hot objects presented by
brittleness, ease of attracted or not and cold objects using the teacher. - product
bending, hardness, attracted by a the "classification board" based assessment:
ability to be magnet using the and given pictures at the find and list 3 hot and
attracted by a senses and simple front, while allowing 3 cold objects that
magnet, and ability tools like magnets, students to participate in you can see inside
to get hot. and pliers. sorting the hot and cold and outside the
pictures of objects. house, draw and color
them in the drawing
book.

The uses of How does the What are

Objects may be Sort objects
matter are structure of matter different ways of
classified according according to color,
determined by determine its describing
to color, odor, taste, odor, taste, size,
their properties. properties and objects? size, shape and shape and how
uses? other they feel to your
characteristics such touch.
as hotness or
coldness,
heaviness or
lightness.
Classification of What are different What are objects Objects around us Identify different Objective: short quiz
matter is based ways of classifying made out of? (e.g., scissors, materials in Given an object, identify process-based
on physical and matter? bags, and shoes, familiar objects the materials it is made assessment-
chemical toy) are made out (e.g., bag, chair, out of. think of any object
properties. of one or more bicycle). Activities: that is useful in a day
materials (metal, - teacher shows objects to day life, present it
rubber, plastic, that includes Wooden to the class and
wood, and leather). Table, Water in a bottle, describe what is it
and helium gas in the made of.
balloon to illustrate the
states of matter -solid,
liquid and gas while
allowing students to
touch and observe the
objects. -Allow students