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Science Lesson Plan

TCNJ SOE Lesson Plan Format


Student Teacher: Kayla Taylor
Self-Contained Preschool

Title of Lesson: Monster Slime

Lesson Essential Question: What happens when we mix a solid and a liquid?

Standards:
• 5.1.P.A.1 Preschoolers display curiosity about science objects, materials, activities,
and longer-term investigations in progress.
• 5.2.P.B.1 Preschoolers explore changes in liquid and solids when substances are
combined, heated, or cooled.

Learning Objectives Assessments

Students will explore solids and liquids in


Students will be able to identify solids and the opening activity. While making
liquids. monster slime, teacher will ask students
which materials are liquids and which are
solids.

Teacher will watch as students mix the


Students will explore what happens when a slime together using their hands. Teacher
solid and liquid are mixed together. will ask whether the mixture feels like a
solid or a liquid.

Materials:
• Opening Activity Materials: Bowl of water (one per set of partners), block (one per
student),
• Main Activity Materials (for all three groups): School glue (1.5 cups), Borax powder (3
teaspoons), hot water (4.5 cups), glitter, googly eyes, neon food coloring, liquid measuring
cup, teaspoon, wooden spoon, medium bowl, zip lock bags, marker
• Materials for monster slime will be pre-measured for each group.

Pre-lesson Assignments/Prior Knowledge: Students will have been introduced to the day’s
science theme through a book about a monster. Students have no prior experience with solids and
liquids from class.

Lesson Beginning: Students will explore liquids and solids with help of the teacher. The teacher
will give each pair of students a bowl of water, and each student a block. Teacher will show
students that when the block is hit against the table it makes a hard noise and does not change.
Teacher will show the students that the water can splash, does not make hard noise when put on
the table, and changes when taken out of the bowl.

Instructional Plan: Students will be split into three groups of two. The groups will be rotating
through centers. The following steps will occur within each group at the monster slime center:
i. The teacher will do the opening activity with the students, allowing them to explore
liquids and solids.
ii. The teacher will tell the students that they will be making monster slime using solids
and liquids. The teacher will name each of the materials for the students and
explain that we will be mixing together solids and liquids to create slime.
iii. The teacher will ask one student to put the borax into the hot water in the liquid
measuring cup. First, the teacher will ask students whether the borax is a liquid or
solid and whether the water is a liquid or solid. (For some groups, the teacher will
tell the students that borax is a solid).
iv. The teacher will add the food coloring to the water and borax mixture.
v. The teacher will have a student pour the pre-measured water into the bowl.
vi. The teacher will have a student help squeeze the glue into the bowl.
vii. The teacher will have a student add glitter to the water and glue mixture.
viii. The teacher will pour the borax and water mixture into the bowl with the glue
mixture and have the students mix with their hands. Teachers will ask the students
what the mixture feels like.
ix. The teacher will remove the slime from the bowl and allow the students time to play
with the slime by adding googly eyes to it and exploring its properties with their
sense of touch.
x. The teacher will do the closing activity.

Lesson Questions:
• What happens when the block hits the table?
• What happens when the water hits the table?
• What happens if we move our hands on the block?
• What happens if we move our hands in the water?
• Is our slime a liquid or solid? What happens when it hits the table?

Closure: The teacher will ask the students the students if the slime is a liquid or solid, then
explain how it’s a “silly slime” and has properties of both liquids and solids. Finally, the teacher
will put each child’s slime in a zip lock bag and write his/her name on it. The children will put
the slime in their backpacks then go to the bathroom to wash their hands. The groups will rotate
and the teacher will do the activity with all three groups.

Safety Precautions: None of the materials are hazardous, however the students will be
encouraged to keep their hands out of their mouths.

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