LESSON PLAN FORMAT

Intern: Ashley Brake Blair

Date: 9/21/15

Objectives Students should be able to identify the three different states of matter and
relate their characteristics to everyday objects.
TEKS 2.5 A.B.C.
ELPS (if applicable) 74.4( c) 1A,C

Focus/Anticipatory Set Students will watch a short clip from discovered.com to

engage students in the subject of matter and to introduce vocabulary.

Relevancy Students need to know the different states of matter and that matter is part
of their everyday life.

Explanation/Teaching Strategies & Modeling Students will assist the teacher with
filling out an anchor chart with the vocabulary and definition of the different states of
matter. They will also give example of everyday objects that are either a solid, liquid, or
gas. The teacher will then ask students to stand up and make a solid out of their bodies
by squeezing into a huddle. Then she will ask students to make a liquid by spreading
out but still holding hands. The she will ask students to make a gas by freely roaming
around the room, quietly.

Teaching: Checking for Understanding Students will do a group sort with the three
categories as solid, liquid, and gas. The students will each get one card that has a
picture of an everyday object that classifies as different states of matter. They will add
their picture to the sort one at a time. Then, the teacher will make sure the pictures are
in the correct category.

Questioning strategies: What have you touched today that was a solid, liquid, or gas?
Can you touch gas? Can matter change from one state to another?

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Guided Practice Students will do the Fruit Loop w/s to review what a solid, liquid, and
gas looks like. Fruit loops very close together represent a solid, Fruit Loops slightly
spread out represent a liquid, and Fruit Loops spread way out represent a gas. The
teacher gives examples beforehand and checks on students as they work.

Closure Now, I want you to think about everything we have talked about today. I am
going to put ice cream and soda in two different cups on your desk. I want to think about
what types of matter they are. Then you will add them together and fill out your Float
Frenzy worksheet on your own.

Independent Practice Students add their coke to their ice cream and observe what
happens. Then, the students label their observations of each state of matter on their
Float Frenzy worksheet by themselves.

Materials Fruit Loops, glue, Fruit Loop worksheet, Float Frenzy worksheet, ice cream,
soda, cups, napkins, spoons, pictures of everyday matter examples, achor chart x2,
discoveryed.com video

Duration 45min 1hour

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