Format
Here is a brief outline of this program:
1. Introduction
2. Seasons, why?
3. What forms can water take?
4. Snowflake Bentley
5. Geometry (symmetry, hexagon)
5. Review and Wrap Up Game!
Objectives
As a result of this interactive lesson, students will:
1. Describe solids, liquids, and gas forms
2. Identify hexagons and lines of symmetry
3. Describe why we have seasons
Standards Alignment
National Standards
Language Arts-Grades K-12
NL.ENG.K-12.3 Evaluation Strategies
Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).
NL.ENG.K-12.4 Communication Skills
Students adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual language (e.g., conventions, style, vocabulary) to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes.
NL.ENG.K-12.5 Communication Strategies
Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
NL.ENG.K-12.6 Applying Knowledge
Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation), media techniques, figurative language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and nonprint texts.
NL.ENG.K-12.7 Evaluating Data
Students conduct research on issues and interests by generating ideas and questions, and by posing problems. They gather, evaluate, and synthesize data from a variety of sources (e.g., print and nonprint texts, artifacts, people) to communicate their discoveries in ways that suit their purpose and audience.
NL.ENG.K-12.8 Developing Research Skills
Students use a variety of technological and information resources (e.g., libraries, databases, computer networks, video) to gather and synthesize information and to create and communicate knowledge.
NL.ENG.K-12.11 Participating in Society
Students participate as knowledgeable, reflective, creative, and critical members of a variety of literacy communities.
NL.ENG.K-12.12 Applying Language Skills
Students use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes (e.g., for learning, enjoyment, persuasion, and the exchange of information).
Technology-Grades K-12
NT.K-12.1 Basic Operations and Concepts
• Students demonstrate a sound understanding of the nature and operation of technology systems.
• Students are proficient in the use of technology.
NT.K-12.2 Social, Ethical and Human Issues
• Students practice responsible use of technology systems, information, and software.
• Students develop positive attitudes toward technology uses that support lifelong learning, collaboration, personal pursuits, and productivity.
NT.K-12.4 Technology Communication Tools
• Students use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences.
• Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences.
State Standards
Kindergarten Science Indicators
Earth and Space Sciences Standard
5. Observe and describe seasonal changes in weather.
Scientific Inquiry Standard
4. Use the five senses to make observations about the natural world.
10. Make new observations when people give different descriptions for the same thing.
Grade One Science Indicators
Physical Sciences Standard
2. Investigate that water can change from liquid to solid or solid to liquid.
3. Explore and observe that things can be done to materials to change their properties (e.g., heating, freezing, mixing, cutting, wetting, dissolving, bending and exposing to light).
Scientific Inquiry Standard
1. Ask "what happens when" questions.
2. Explore and pursue student-generated "what happens when" questions.
Scientific Ways of Knowing Standard
2. Demonstrate good explanations based on evidence from investigations and observations.
Grade Two Science Indicators
Earth and Space Sciences Standard
4. Observe and describe that some weather changes occur throughout the day and some changes occur in a repeating seasonal pattern.
5. Describe weather by measurable quantities such as temperature and precipitation.
Scientific Inquiry Standard
1. Ask "how can I/we" questions.
2. Ask "how do you know" questions (not "why" questions) in appropriate situations and attempt to give reasonable answers when others ask questions.
3. Explore and pursue student-generated "how" questions.
10. Share explanations with others to provide opportunities to ask questions, examine evidence and suggest alternative explanations.
Grade Three Science Indicators
Scientific Inquiry Standard
2. Discuss observations and measurements made by other people.
6. Communicate scientific findings to others through a variety of methods (e.g., pictures, written, oral and recorded observations).
Scientific Ways of Knowing Standard
3. Explore through stories how men and women have contributed to the development of science.
4. Identify various careers in science.
Grade One Math Indicators
Geometry and Spatial Sense Standard
1. Identify, compare and sort two-dimensional shapes; i.e., square, circle, ellipse, triangle, rectangle, rhombus, trapezoid, parallelogram, pentagon and hexagon
Grade Two Math Indicators
Geometry and Spatial Sense Standard
5. Create and identify two-dimensional figures with line symmetry; e.g., What letter shapes, logos, polygons are symmetrical?.
Grade Three Math Indicators
Geometry and Spatial Sense Standard
4. Draw lines of symmetry to verify symmetrical two-dimensional shapes.