Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Explore a number of different materials and classify them as solids or liquids.
- Discuss and decide what properties make a solid and a liquid.
Activities
- Actively explore the properties of a range of materials, discuss them and classify each as either a solid, a liquid or a “hard to classify material” (Yrs 3&4).
- Either create a set of sorting cards that describe the properties of liquids and solids (Yr 4) or explain the properties of 5 “hard to classify materials” (Yr 3).
- Begin to understand why solids and liquids behave differently by looking at a simple explanation of how particles are arranged in each (Yrs 3&4).
Investigation - exploring, observing, classifying and indentifying
Meet the staff at the Dartspring Museum. Will you agree to help? Make sure you know the difference between solids and liquids. How can you explain this to visitors? Can you devise a sorting task or quiz to help them learn?
Year 3 - Classify a variety of materials and describe the features of each.
Year 4 - Make a list of properties of solids and liquids and devise a visitors task
Vocabulary
States of matter, material, solid, liquid, gas, natural, manmade, classify, molecule, atom, bonds