Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Continue to explore puddles and observe changes
• Consider what makes a difference to how puddles dry up and the rate at which they do
• Create a simple chart, or series of diagrams, to show how the puddles change
• Use scientific vocabulary such as water, bigger, smaller, drying up, rain, changing, evaporation
• Create dances, portraying the changes in a puddle and a block of ice over time, and perform The Puddle Dance and The Ice Dance to an audience

Activities

1. Explore puddles and observe changes and exploring own ways of recording puddle changes
2. Use scientific vocabulary such as water, bigger, smaller, drying up, rain, changing, evaporation
3. Represent their observations and understanding through dances and role-play and through speaking to an audience about what they have learned

Investigation
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. (Exploring, observing over time).

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