Experimenting Solids

Name: Eden Peters

Date: Wednesday February 22, 2017

Placement: Thornhill Public School

Purpose

I completed this task because the classroom teacher needed to work with the grade 1 students, therefore I was asked to complete the science experiment with the grade 2s.

Task

In response to completing this science experiment, I hope to plan a science lesson with the children where they close their eyes and touch different objects and then they will describe how they feel. I will have them close their eyes rather than having them open because I feel that their sense of touch will be increased and they will be able to focus more on what they are touching.

Label

Science experiment with the grade 2’s – touching and describing solids

What are your objectives

• To enhance the children’s understanding of solids (what they are, what they can be made of)

• To expand their descriptive vocabulary by discussing what the solids feel and look like.

Materials:

• Rock

• Sand

• Salt

• Sugar

• Spoon

Step by Step

As I took out each item, I chose one child to touch it. While they were touching the item, they described what it looks like, feels like, and what it is made of. Each child would have a turn to give their input, and as a group they would agree on a descriptive word for the item.

When we were finished with one object, we would move onto the next until we were finished exploring all of the items.

Reflection

I feel that this activity went really well. All of the children had a chance to look at and feel all of the objects and they used different describing words as well. I feel that they all enjoyed doing this experiment rather than doing a traditional lesson and during the activity, they seemed to be more engaged and focused on the task at hand. If I were to do another experiment with this group of children, I would have them close their eyes (as mentioned above) and have them guess what the object is.