Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Understand that water is a material (Yr1).
- 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 (Yr2).
- Draw chalk lines around the puddles at different times, measure and observe the changes and make predictions.
Activities
- Explore the properties of water by looking at puddles in the playground (Yr1).
- Talk and write about the best ways of observing and measuring how puddles change over time (Yr2).
Investigation - exploring, observing over time
Create puddles in shallow containers or plastic sheets. Drawing chalk lines around the puddles, measure and observe the changes and make predictions. Discuss evaporation.
Year 1 - Understand that water is a material.
Year 2 - Talk and write about the best ways of observing and measuring how puddles change over time
Vocabulary
Water, ice, melts, frozen, observe, materials, properties