Science Lessons for Inquiry-focused Instruction
1. Identify the Scientific Concept: What scientific concept/principle should students learn
from this lesson? Use indicators from the Standards, including both skills and processes.
2. Identify a Real-World or Practical Application Related to the Concept:
It can be
a problem students can solve or
a decision students can make or
a question students can answer
Posing the challenge is the heart of the Engagement. Students become motivated as
activities are described. Students access prior knowledge. Motivational activities
include: a demonstration by the teacher and/or student, a reading from a current media
release, a science journal, literature, analyzing a graphic organizer, etc.
3. Provide Opportunities for Students to Explore, Collect and Record Information:
Students may gather information from: a) lab work, and/or b) books/journals and/or, c)
interviews and/or d) the internet, etc.
The Exploration will be activities designed so students can collect information and build
skills they will use to complete an Extension activity. Students will read for information
and perform an investigation.
4. Students Develop a Series of Questions based on the Exploration Activities: Students
answer these questions through opportunities to design investigations and implement the
set of procedures they write.
5. Students Evaluate Data and Provide Explanations: Help students analyze
data, guide their thinking as they develop meaning and understanding, compare class data
and ideas, and critique conclusions.
Teachers should modify explanations as required, add information to enhance
understanding, or move to a related, more complex concept.
6. Evaluation Occurs Throughout the Lesson: Evaluations provide
opportunities for students to demonstrate and check their understanding of the
concepts. Scoring tools developed by teachers and students target what students must
know and do. Consistent use of scoring tools improves learning. A final evaluation of
important concepts, skills and processes may conclude the lesson.
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Unit/Lesson Plan Title:
Primary Subject
Integrated Subjects
Grade Level
Length of Unit/Lesson
Research Sources
Science
Unit/Lesson Summary
-This lab show how energy is transferred (heat) from small unfrozen
liquid ( freezy pops) to a salt ice mixture.
-showing matter changing from one form to another, phase change.
-metal, phase change, conduction, heat, energy, Insulators, Insulation
Key Vocabulary
Essential Standards/NCSCOS
6.P.2.2 Understand the structure, classifications and physical properties
of matter
6.P.3 Understand characteristics of energy transfer and interactions of
matter and energy.
Essential Questions
What are other ways to freeze liquids?
What would you predict will happen to the temperature of the ice when
salt is added?
Materials/Resources Needed
Gallon size baggies, icees, ice (multiple sizes of ice: cube, shaved,
sonic) salt (multiple salts: Rock, table) Vernier LabQuest, Vernier
Temperature Probe, Graph paper/lab sheet, gloves
Engagement activity: Teacher walks in with frozen ice pop singing the
ice pop song and each student has an unfrozen ice pop. What can we
do to get everyones ice pop frozen? (Discussion starter)
Assigning jobs for cooperative learning. Recorders, time keepers,
shakers, probers, team leader. ESOL/EC shadow high functioner for
language struggles.
Math: Measurements, comparing, graphing
Writing: graphing and explanation of information
SS: The change of life allowed with the invention of refrigeration.
Science: Insulators
PB: Lab performance based on rubric.
Summative: Rubric on Scientific Method
Exploration/Engagement
Activities
Accommodations for
Differentiated Instruction
Cross Curricular
Integration
Assessments:
•Performance-based
•Formative
•Summative
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Extension Activities
Day 2: Student choice of variables.
Refrigeration and insulation topics
Timeline for refrigeration
Icebox vs. refrigeration
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Kathy Boyd, Greg Stienbarger Dinna Johnson
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