Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Understand that water is a material.
• Explore the properties of water by looking at puddles in the playground.
• Talk and write about the best ways of observing and measuring how puddles change over time.
• Measure and observe the changes in puddles and make predictions.
• Make paper cut outs of the puddle over time for a class display.

Activities

1. Understand that water is a material.
2. Explore the properties of water by looking at puddles in the playground.
3. Make predictions about the puddles and record them using chalk and paper cut outs.

Investigation - exploring, observing over time
Create puddles in shallow containers or plastic sheets.
Drawing chalk lines around the puddles at different times, measure and observe the changes and make predictions.
Create a simple chart, or series of diagrams, to show how the puddles change.

Vocabulary
Water, puddle, evaporation, bigger, smaller, materials, properties