Lesson Plan

Teacher Candidate: Alexandra Date: 03/06

Group Size: 23 Allotted Time: 30 min Grade Level: Kindergarten

Subject or Topic: Science: States of Matter

Common Core/PA Standard(s)

Standard - 3.2.K.A3
Describe the way matter can change.

Learning Targets/Objectives
Students will be able to explain what a liquid is by completing an experiment and exit
ticket.

Formative Assessment Approaches Evidence observation or method of collection

1. Exit ticket 1. Collect exit tickets

Assessment Scale for any of the assessments above if needed

Summative if applicable
Subject Matter/Content to be taught in the lesson

Prerequisites
- N/A
New Key Vocabulary
- Liquid: a state of matter that does not have one shape
- Melting: to change from a solid to a liquid (usually through heat)
Content/Facts
- What is a liquid?
- A state of matter that does not have one shape
- a liquid has loose particles, meaning that it moves around a little bit and does
not stay still
- loose particles
- Particles that are tight together, but do not stay in one place like a solid
- Students will be asked to spread their arms out, but to stay still to show how
loose particles are
- What does it mean to melt?
- Melting is when a solid turns into a liquid
- this is done with heat (fire)
- an example: when ice turns into water
Introduction/Activating/Launch Strategies
- Start the students by warming up to a song about the states of matter
( Move Like a State of Matter | Science Song for Kids | Solid, Liquid, Gas | Jack
Hartmann )
- Review what we learned the day before: What is a solid?
- a solid is a state of matter that has one definite shape
- a liquid can become a solid when it freezes
- A solid has packed particles: have the students curl up into a ball and stay still
to show the particles, they do not move
- state that we will be learning about liquids today

Development/Teaching Approaches
*teacher will use presentation during this*
1. Ask the class if they know what a liquid is
a. Explain that a liquid is a state of matter that does not have one shape
b. give examples of a liquid ( water, the ocean, juice)
2. Explain how a solid can become a liquid
a. Melting: when a solid becomes a liquid
b. this is done by the use of heat
c. give examples of when they see this (when an ice pop starts to melt, ice cube
turning into water)
3. Explain that a liquid has loose particles
a. Unlike solids, liquids have loose particles
b. they are tight together, but do not have one shape
c. have the students spread their arms out to show how loose particles are
4. Have water in a container that is reading to be used
a. have different containers that the teacher can put the water in
b. have the containers and water set up on a table on the carpet
c. have students stand around the table
d. move the water into the different container to show the class that liquids take
the shape of the container that they are in
*teacher will be adding to anchor chart from the beginning of the week with facts about
liquids*

Closure/Summarizing Strategies
- Hand out exit ticket to students to complete at their seats
- exit ticket will have questions about what a liquid is
- teacher will read the questions to the class and the class will have to choose
their answer on their own individual papers
- have the students hand in their exit tickets to the teacher when they are done

Accommodations/Differentiation

- Ask questions to help prompt students

- have certain students sit in the front of the class to keep them on task
 - word content differently

Materials and Resources:

- Move Like a State of Matter | Science Song for Kids | Solid, Liquid, Gas | Jack
Hartmann
- different containers
- water
- exit ticket: Liquid Exit Ticket
- Slide show presentation:States of Matter Unit
- anchor chart
Name ____________________

Liquid Exit Ticket

1. Does a liquid take the shape of its container?

a. Yes

b. No

2. Does a liquid have loose particles?

a. Yes

b. No

3. Does a solid turn into a liquid by freezing?

a. Yes

b. No