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DIXIE STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION UNIT PLAN TEMPLATE Elementary Semesters 3 & 4
Teacher Candidate: April Talbot Grade Level: 2nd Grade Step 1 DESIRED RESULTS A. Contextual Factors
Contextual Factors: 26 Students 15 Boys 11 Girls 3 IEP 6 High Level Learners 2 ELL 2 Speech 6 Low Level Learners Classroom Environment: Desks are arranged in groups of five or six. They are placed randomly throughout the classroom. Whiteboard is on the east end of the room. The rug instruction area is on the west wall. Technology available.

Content Area: Science: Matter

B. Utah State Core or Common Core Curriculum Standard Standard 3: Physical Science. Students will gain an understanding of Physical Science through the study of the properties of Materials. Objective 2: Compare and contrast the differences in how different materials respond to change. a. Model physical changes of various materials. b. Investigate and provide evidence that matter is not destroyed or created through changes.

C. Enduring Understanding/Big Idea Matter cannot be destroyed or created through change. Materials respond differently to change.

D. Essential Questions/Guiding Questions What is matter? What are the three states of matter? How do you tell if something is a solid, liquid, or gas? What is physical change? How do materials respond differently to change? How can you describe solids, liquids, and gas?

E. Concepts Students can recognize matter. Students will know the three states of matter. Students will be able to recognize and sort, solids, liquids, and gas. Students will understand the physical change in matter. Students will understand that matter cannot be destroyed or created through change. Students will be able to describe the characteristics of solids, liquids, and gas. Students will be able to understand how particles/molecules react in the different states of matter. F. Skills Explain how matter changes from one state to another. Identify and write the characteristics of solids, liquids, and gas. Listen to informational books of matter and the three states. Observe and record what happens when ice melts. Observe and record what happens when water boils. Classify solids, liquids, and gas. Draw pictures of particles/molecules in each of the three states, solid, liquid, and gas. Step 2 ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE 1. Pre-Assessments Pretest: Assessment worksheet: 5 multiple choice questions (Accommodations will be made for ESL and struggling students by reading the questions). Questioning (Targeted questions for high level learners and ELLs)

2. Formative Assessments/Evidence Graphic organizer Observations during discussions Questioning during discovery and exploring activities

3. Summative Assessments/Evidence Post-Test: Assessment worksheet, same as a pre-assessment Students will predict, observe and record in a graphic organizer what happens when ice melts and when water boils. Students will draw pictures of particles/molecules in each of the three states of matter.

Step 3 Lesson Objectives with Instructional Strategies Lesson 1: I will be able to identify matter and the three states, solid, liquid, and gas. Unit Pretest View PowerPoint presentation on matter Mystery Box

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Lesson 2: I will be able understand the physical change in matter. View PowerPoint presentation. Read, Joe-Joe the Wizard Brews up Solids, Liquids, and Gases by Eric Braun. Group activity building with Legos, Play-Dough and self-portrait. Observe and record the changes that occur. Lesson 3: I will be able to demonstrate how particles/molecules react in each of the three states of matter. Watch video of how particles/molecules react (3.5 minutes). View PowerPoint presentation. In groups students will demonstrate the movement of particles/molecules in each of the three states. Students will draw pictures of particles/molecules in each of the three states of matter. Lesson 4: I will be able to observe and record the characteristics of solids. I will be able to predict what will happen when ice melts. Read aloud, Matter: See it, Touch it, Taste it, Smell it by Darlene Stille Observe and record the characteristics of the solid icemen. Predict what will happen as the ice snowmen melted. Lesson 5: I will be able to observe and record the characteristics of liquids. I will be able to predict what will happen when the liquid from the melted ice snowmen is placed on a stovetop to boil. Observe and record the characteristics of liquid water. Predict and write down what will happen when the liquid from the ice snowmen is heated to a boil. Buddy share-predictions Lesson 6: I will be able to observe and record the characteristics of steam/gas. Complete observations on steam and the graphic organizer of the characteristics of the three states of matter. Review/Group discussion/Play a game of Jeopardy. Unit Post-test
Adapted from: McTighe, J., & Wiggins, G. (2005). Understanding by design, 2nd ed. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.; Ainsworth, L. (2003). Unwrapping the standards: A simple process to make standards manageable. Denver, CO: Advanced Learning Press.