Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Understand that materials can be classified into different states and begin to use simple practical enquiries and scientific evidence to support findings.
Activities
- Identify what they know and what they want to know about states of matter.
- Discuss and explore the properties that make a material a solid or a liquid.
- Use these features to classify different materials.
- Explain understanding of the properties of a solid or liquid to another by using a simple practical enquiry and straightforward scientific evidence.
Investigation - sorting and classifying
Identify misconceptions and classify materials into solids, liquids and gases.
Vocabulary
Solid, liquid, state, matter, particle, grain, category, classify, group, evidence, question, discuss