WILL IT SLIDE

Name: Adrienne Woolbright Date: February 13, 2012 Grade Level/Subject: Kindergarten/ Science Prerequisite Knowledge: Students will need to know penguins slide on their bellies from previous literature read and discussed in the class. Approximate Time: 30 minutes Student Objectives/Student Outcomes: Students will be able to make a prediction about which items slide on ice or not. Students will be able to record predictions and outcomes in a logical way on paper. Content Standards: Illinois State Standards: 11.A.1a Describe an observed event, 11.A.1e Arrange data into logical

patterns and describe the patterns.

Materials/Resources/Technology: A tub of ice for three groups, cotton balls, paper clips, penguin, paper, eraser, yam, Will it slide? Worksheet, pencil Implementation:

Time
5 mins

Opening of lesson: (Objectives, hook, behavior expectations) Students will be on the carpet for the teacher to explain the activity. The teacher will explain that students will be predicting what slides and what doesnt and then will test their hypothesis using a tub of ice and the given material. Students will be reminded of their expectations when working with groups: each group member gets a turn, only touch materials on the table when told to do so, do not work ahead of the teacher. Students will be shown all of the objects and allowed to touch the objects and feel them before starting the activity. This will allow them to feel the objects to determine if they think the object will slide or not Procedures: Include critical thinking questions and accommodations for individual needs Students will now start to predict if they think each object will slide or not and will record their predication on their worksheet. Critical thinking question: Why do penguins slide on their bellies? What about them allows this sliding to happen? Do any of these objects display these same qualities? Once students have gone through and made predications about each object one at a time they will take turns testing each object starting with the cotton ball and working though the worksheet. They will need to record the outcome on their worksheet.

15 mins

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Summary/Closing: Once everyone has finished testing each object we will come back together as a group to talk about our findings. We will discuss which items slid on the ice and which items didnt. Why do you think the cotton ball did not slide? Why do you think the paper clip did? This discussion will lead into friction and the effect of friction and the items sliding on the ice. Student Assessment: I will collect the work sheets and make sure students made a prediction and recorded it along with the outcome on their paper. Did their prediction seem logical? What items did they think would slide that didnt? After our discussion of friction did they understand why these items wouldnt slide?