Tyler Burke

ELED 3221
10/30/14
edTPA Indirect Instruction Lesson Plan Template
Matter Properties and Changes
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Central Focus/Big Idea: By knowing how to measure and compare weight and volume of water
in different containers students will discover that the amount does not change when it is frozen
then melted back to a liquid.
Subject of this lesson: Matter: Properties and Change
Grade Level: 2nd
NC Essential Standard(s): 2.P.2. Understand properties of solids and liquids and the changes
they undergo.
Next Generation Science Standard(s): What K-5 performance expectation is addressed? Please
list the full code (i.e. K-PS2-1) and the statement. The NGSS are located here:
http://www.nextgenscience.org/next-generation-science-standards.
21st Century Skills:
Initiative and self-direction
Academic Language Demand
Language Function: In the table below highlight the one most important language
function for your lesson. I chose these skills because I felt they were most within their
academic level. Describe allows them to make observations of scientific phenomenon
which they will do a lot when they test hypotheses and predict gives them experience
forming reasonable hypotheses.
AnalyzeArgueCategorizeCompare/contrastDescribeExplainInterpretPredictQuestionRetellSumma
rize
Solid, liquid, gas, volume, mass, graduated cylinder

Instructional Objective: 2.P.2.2 Compare the amount (volume and weight) of water in a
container before and after freezing.
Prior Knowledge (student): know what liquid is, know what solid is, know what gas is, know
what water is, know what it means to freeze something, know what it means to melt something

Content Knowledge (teacher): They should have a solid understanding of properties of matter.
Know how water can change to and from each of its three states (solid, liquid, and gas). Know
measurements well enough to teach them how to measure volume and weight of water.
Knowledge that the amount does not change
Accommodations for special needs (individual and/or small group): What will you do for
students with special needs (ELL, ability, etc.)?
Materials and Technology requirements:
Scale or balance
Container that can be frozen
water
food coloring to make the water easier to see.
Sprite
Apple Juice
Total Estimated Time:
30 min
Source of lesson:
https://sites.google.com/site/mscarltons2ndgrade/lesson-plan
http://www.wheretomorrowbegins.org/climb/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/2P2-PhysicalScience-Unit-Matter.pdf
Safety considerations: Only use the materials for their prior purposes. Don't play with the
materials.

Content and Strategies (Procedure)

Engage: Review to the students the properties of matter. What are the three properties of water?
How do we change water from a liquid to a solid? How do we change water from a solid to a
liquid?
Explore: Ice cube shuffle is the name of this activity. A specific volume of water will be measured
in a freezable container. Students will write down the volume and weight of the container with the
water in it. The water in the container will be given time to freeze; once it freezes the students or
me will melt the ice back into water. Before they give it time to freeze they will predict whether
they think the weight will increase, decrease, or stay the same by the time it is melted back into
water. Have students write any observations in their science journals. The weight should not have
changed by the end of the experiment. What color is the ice with the food coloring?
Explanation: What you should have discovered in the experiment is that weight or amount does
not change when water is turned back into a liquid. In the upper grades you will learn how to
explain this result but for now you need to know that this is what results.
Elaborate: Now let them practice taking measurements of weight and volume of other liquids.
Apple juice will be one liquid and the other liquid will be a cup of sprite. The older they get they
will be measuring greater sized objects so practicing their skills of measuring liquids will prepare
them for the harder measurements down the road.
Evaluate: Students will answer four questions in a short essay using their science journals. These
questions will relate to properties of solids, liquids, and the changes they undergo. When you
weigh water and then turn it into ice and turn it back into water does the weight change? What are
the properties of water? How does water change from a solid to a liquid? How does it change
from a liquid to a solid? Students must include answers to all four questions in order to meet the
assessment objective.
To be complete after the lesson is taught as appropriate
Assessment Results of all objectives/skills:
Reflection on lesson:
CT signature/confirmation: _________________________________ Date: ________________