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Procedure:
Students will work in groups of 4-6 students, assigned by their current tables. Students
will work in pairs within those groups.
Ask the students what they think might happen to their hands when they go into the ice
bucket.
Ask the students how they think they can keep their hands warm in ice water.
2-3 members of the table will put the blubber glove on one hand and the natural glove on
the other and immerse up to the line on the glove in the ice water. Hands should only
stay in a for a few seconds so they dont freeze
Partners will record the results of warm or cold for the blubber glove hand on a sticky note
as their teammates report it to them and then proceed to place the sticky on the bar
chart on the white board.
Bar chart will have the class count of 18 on one axis and blubber hand warm and
blubber hand-cold on the other axis. Students will place their sticky on warm or cold on
the bar chart.
Switch partners and repeat procedure.
Assessment:
Walk around the room to assess scientific thinking and questions and help those that
need it.
Call children back to the front of the room.
Review our read aloud book again from the pre-assessment session.
Ask students how they think products in our human world that help keep us warm are
modeled after this natural world heat retention principal?
Did your hand stay warm?
Review their bar chart and ask them how they would interpret it. Which hand was
warmer and which was colder? Did everyone come to the same conclusion, what can the
bar chart tell us?
What are some of the things we use to keep us warm?
Make notes in your science journals
Helpful Hints/Suggestions:
In a whole class discussion, make sure children understand their jobs as team members.
Make sure children are aware of any safety concerns prior to conducting the experiment.
Make sure to give children a brief outline of what is going to happen during the activity and
our expectations of them during this time. Speak with the classroom teacher beforehand to
ensure that the groups and partnerships make sense to her and that students within those
groups should be able to work together. Make sure to keep tying back the experiment to the
real world. By the end of the period students should be able to make the connection that
animals have physical characteristics that help them to adapt to their environments (blubber
for animals in the arctic to help keep them warm). Make sure that the bar chart is easy to
read and make sure that all children in the classroom understand what it means and how to
read it.