Solids & Liquids
Addendum to the Written Curriculum: "Matter Soup" Party! & "Solids and Liquids I-Spy Museum"
Students will share the experiences and learning that they have gained from the investigations of solids and liquids. Students will display their Science Journals and give oral explanations of what has been discovered about solids and liquids from this kit.
3. Lesson set up and Management
- IP05 2.1.5 Record and report observations, explanations, and conclusions using oral and written expression.
- Solids and liquids can be described in many ways.
- Solids, liquids and gases make up matter.
- Solids and liquids are everywhere in our daily lives.
3. Lesson set up and Management
Materials:
- Copy Handout 1, Letter to Parents about Matter Soup
- 9x12 piece of construction paper for each student to make museum pieces.
- Magazines for cutting out pictures
- Digital picture of each student to attach to their museum piece
- Crockpot, ingredients for a favorite vegetable soup, paper bowls, spoons
- Pitcher of water with a powdered juice mix, cups
- Invitations to come to the Solids and Liquids Museum. (Have students decorate the invitation with a "What's the Matter?" illustration.)
- Sparkle Jars from previous investigations
- Students' "What's the Matter?" Portfolios
- Plan a date for your Solids and Liquids Celebration. Let your students choose an item they would like to contribute for Matter Soup. Send home parent slips. (See Handout 1, link above) I have also included a soup recipe I like to use.
- Have a "museum-making" day.
- Making Museum Display Boxes: Use different colors of 9x12 pieces of construction paper; fold the construction paper in 1-½ inches on all sides. Cut in 1-½ inches on each corner. Fold the corners over and staple to make a box. Hint: Have a parent fold, cut and staple the boxes ahead of time.
- Planning the "I Spy" Riddles: Make lists of rhyming words to help students choose pictures for their collage before they start to cut. Have students use magazines to cut out pictures of solids and liquids to match the words in their riddlges. Glue into the bottom of the "box" in collage fashion.
- Have students write a two-line or four-line riddle in "I Spy" form. Have them write their final copies neatly on clean paper. Display the riddle with the Museum Box on a bulletin board or on students' desks on Matter Soup Day!
Example: I spy a solid my dad likes to ride,
Two solids that after dinner I dried;
A liquid that's tasty, a liquid that's not,
And a liquid that's cooked in a very big pot.
If this is too difficult for your class, your students could just write riddles that name objects.
The other students can tell if the object is a solid or liquid.
Example: I spy a bike, some orange juice, a rake,
Two buttons that match, some dish soap, a cake;
A milkshake with strawberries, a soda pop,
A can of oil, and a sign that says STOP.
• Take digital pictures of your students to glue onto the Museum Boxes.
*On the morning of the celebration, have students add the ingredients to make Matter Soup in the crockpot. Discuss what solids, liquids, and gas are in the Matter Soup. Let the soup cook on High until lunchtime.
Have the "What's The Matter?" Portfolios on students' desks, and the Sparkle Jars and I Spy Museum Boxes displayed around the room. Invite families and/or another class to walkabout the displays. Have your class be the experts in explaining what they have learned about Solids and Liquids. Afterwards, enjoy Matter Soup and a pitcher of water with a powdered drink mix together. Don't forget to sing the matter song and chant the poem!
Math Support:
Make a T-Chart with the headings "Solid" and "Liquid". Have students give evidence supporting whether they believe toothpaste is a solid or a liquid, and record the evidence students give under the correct heading.