Presenters: Michael Zurbo and Sara Hulka

Date: 3-14-12

GLCE: E.FE.02.13 Describe the properties (visible, flowing, melting, dew) of water as a liquid (lakes, rivers, streams, oceans).

Engage:

Get the class together and read the book Water Dance by Thomas Locker. This book shows different bodies of water, such as lakes, rivers, oceans, etc. so that students can see that water comes in various shapes and sizes.

Explore:

This would consist of 3-4 activities depending on how in depth you want to go into the properties of water. This would take roughly one to two days depending on how many activities you plan on doing. As well a worksheet will go along with it to be sure the students are paying attention to what is happening in each activity. The activities we choose in this particular case were:

Act 1: Shape of Water

Water poured into different containers

Act. 2: Frost/Dew cans

Two tin cans, crushed ice, water, salt, and something to stir with

Act. 3: Penny drop – surface tension and visibility

Penny, Eye dropper, water

Act 4: Flow

Tube, sand, water

These activities each touched a different property of water and represented it well, and that’s why we choose to use them.

Explain

After completion of the explore activities we would bring the class together and discuss what they observed from their explore activities and as a class make a list of the water properties from what they observed. Following that we would give them new vocab words, such as dew and frost.

Elaborate To get the students to elaborate on what they just learned we would have them record via journal on where they can see water, draw a picture, tell which body of water it could be, such as lake, river, stream, pool, etc. Identify each property at least once, such as dew, flowing, and possibly which phase solid, liquid, or gas. Ex) I swam in my pool today, body of water is pool, flowing, liquid. Discuss what they’re seeing in small groups, and then come together as a class for further discussion.

Evaluation

To evaluate the students we would look on what they said within their journal, as well as look at their explore worksheets they filled out during the activities.

References http://www.homeschooling-ideas.com/water-experiments.html http://www.weatherwizkids.com/experiments-frost.htm http://water.epa.gov/learn/kids/drinkingwater/upload/The-Water-Sourcebooks-Grade-Level-K-2.pdf