Lynn Early

Mimosa Elementary TAG / 2nd Grade Collaboration

Collaboration Lesson Plan

School:
TAG Teacher:
Reg.Ed.
Teacher(s)
Date:

Mimosa Elementary School

Lynn Early
Conrad

Subject:
Standards:

2nd Grade Science

Essential
Question:

How can I make connections, understand key details, and

generate insight into the properties of matter, and changes to
matter through research, reading, writing and illustrating.

Hook:

November 18, 2016

Physical Science S2P1. Obtain, evaluate, and

communicate information about the properties of
matter and changes that occur in objects. a. Ask
questions to describe and classify different
objects according to their physical properties.
(Clarification statement: Examples of physical
properties could include color, mass, length,
texture, hardness, strength, absorbency, and
flexibility.) b. Construct an explanation for how
structures made from small pieces (linking cubes,
building blocks) can be disassembled and then
rearranged to make new and different structures.
c. Provide evidence from observations to
construct an explanation that some changes in
matter caused by heating or cooling can be
reversed and some changes are irreversible.
(Clarification statement: Changes in matter could
include heating or freezing of water, baking a
cake, boiling an egg.)

Kahoot Pre-assessment: https://create.kahoot.it/?

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Procedures:

Nearpod:
https://app.nearpod.com/library/preview/lesson-L379476
Read and take notes using a variety of informational texts about
forms of matter and their properties.
http://www.slideshare.net/MakeMegenius/states-of-matter-forkids
http://www.chem4kids.com/files/matter_intro.html
What Is the World Made of? By Zoehfeld
Kahoot Post-assessment:
https://create.kahoot.it/#user/77258d6f-1a44-4b0e-89db29e54e254f71/kahoots/created
Discovery Education Matter Content File
Safari Montage Matter Playlist
Teacher note have a visual chart of the properties of solid,
liquid, gas
SCAMPER Activity
Work in pairs using your notes from the informational texts,
videos, and slide show plus creative and critical thinking to
answer the SCAMPER questions. Most questions can be
answered in sentence or list form with illustrations.
Substitute If you could substitute one form of matter for
anothera liquid for a solid, a solid for a liquid, a gas for a solid,
etcwhat substitution would you make and why?
Draw a picture of your change and describe how it would effect
the thing you are changing. For example, if your Legos were
made of lemonade, what would that look and feel like? How
would that effect your Legos? If your bed were made of water??
Combine A mixture is a combination of two or more

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substances that are not chemically changed. (A chemical

change produces new substances. Like wood burning or sour
milk.) What forms of matter can be mixed or combined to meet
an everyday need? Draw a picture of your combination. Hint:
Water is a combination of hydrogen and oxygen. Does water
meet a need?
Other common mixtures:
Air (oxygen + nitrogen + other gasses)
Cement (sand + water + gravel)
Ocean water (water + salt)

Adapt Water is a special type of matter that can change easily

from a liquid to a gas. It can also change easily from a liquid to
a solid and back again. It can change its state. A change in
temperature is what usually causes matter to change its state.
Because the earths temperature is changing we are
experiencing changes in our weather and the amount of liquid
matter we have available. We are in a drought in Georgia.
Define the word drought and describe what adaptations
(changes) we need to make because we are in a drought. Draw
what a drought looks like, the effects of a drought, and label
examples of the changes we need to make because of the lack
of liquid matter!
Modify Think of one form of matter (solid, liquid, or gas). If
you changed the properties of a form of matter what would
happen? For example, if the molecules of your table were not
tightly packed together, what would happen to your table? If
you could pour your chair??
Put to other use
[NASA is developing a machine that purifies human urine
to recycle the water for astronauts to drink.
Moisturize dry skin. Simply smash a banana into a bowl
and smooth it on your skin.
Dog owners collect their dog waste in a special
biodegradable bag and throw it into the digester - an

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air-tight cylindrical container, where the dog feces are

broken down by anaerobic bacteria. This produces a gas
(methane), which can then be released through a valve
and burnt as fuel. In this case it is being used to power
an old-fashioned gas-burning lamppost in a park.]
Can you think of a new way to use a form of matter that is not
typical or expected? Does your new use solve a problem? Use
your imagination!
Eliminate If you had to eliminate one type of matter and
could no longer use it (for example: no more solids, liquids, gas)
which one would you eliminate and why? Draw a picture of you
in your classroom to show what that would look like. Would you
be able to survive without this form of matter?
Rearrange/Reverse -Most things in nature are mixtures. Look
at rocks, the ocean, or even the atmosphere. They are all
mixtures, and mixtures are about physical properties.
You can separate components of a heterogeneous mixture (e.g.,
sorting candies in a bowl). If you have a salad, you can see
different sizes and shapes and types of vegetables. Mixing
together two solids, without melting them together, typically
results in a heterogeneous mixture. Examples include sand and
sugar, salt and gravel, a basket of fruit, trail mix, and a toy box
filled with toys.
Think of your favorite mixturethe ocean, a tree, pencil, cereal
and milk, root beer and ice cream, popcorn and peanuts, peanut
butter and jelly, etc. Now rearrange the matter in your mixture
to make something new. Exampletake out the peanut butter
from a Reeses Cup and add Skittles! Draw a picture and
explain how you rearranged your mixture.
Concluding Activity / Assessment
Each pair of students will pick the SCAMPER questions that
interest them the most and makes a short oral presentation of
their ideas and answers.

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Formative student focuses on one of the SCAMPER questions

and clearly states ideas and answers. Student generates
innovative and creative ideas.