Chase Kirkpatrick
# of Students: 19
Subject: Science
Unit Title: NA
September 28, 2010
Grade: 5
Lesson Length: 30 minutes
Lesson Title: Three States of Matter
Context
Academic Context
Students have been learning about the three states of matter through their literacy newspapers.
They should know what matter is and several of its physical characteristics. In this lesson
students will learn about the three states of matter.
Essential Questions
What are the three states of matter? How do molecules move in the three states? What shapes
can the three states of matter take on?
Objectives
1.
2.
3.
4.
Students will be able to identify the three states of matter.
Students will be able to define the three states of matter.
Students will be able to explain how molecules in the three states move.
Students will be able to describe the shapes that the three states of matter take and
examples of each.
Connections
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Students will explain how matter, including water, can be changed from one state to another.
Materials can exist in different states--solid, liquid and gas. Some common materials, such as
water, can be changed from one state to another by heating or cooling. Resulting cause and effect
relationships should be explored, described and predicted.
DOK 3
Resources, Media and Technology
 5 small pieces of wood
 5 balloons
 5 (clear) cups filled with water
 Youtube video
o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-KvoVzukHo
 Worksheet (on overhead sheet)
 Science notebooks
Procedures
1. Review concepts about what matter is and some of its physical properties. (2 minutes)
2. Students will be reminded that matter exists in 3 states. They will be asked to try to
remember from previous years about what they are and come up with a list on the board.
(1 minute)
3. Get into lab groups and wait for instruction. (1 minute)
4. At each lab station students will have a block of wood, a glass of water and a balloon
filled with air. Students will quickly be asked to identify which is a solid, liquid and gas
(and be told to worry about the water and the air and not their containers). (2 minutes)
5. Students will then be asked to brainstorm a definition with their groups on what makes
the three states of matter different and record their definitions in their science notebooks.
(4 minutes)
6. After they finish that task they will be asked to think and talk with their group members
about the way that the molecules move in each of the states. (2 minutes)
7. As a whole group we will discuss different ideas and record predictions on the board. (3
minutes)
8. The students will then be asked to discuss in their groups and make predictions about the
shapes that the different state of matter take on. (2 minutes)
9. As a whole group again we will discuss the prediction and record them on the board. (3
minutes)
10. We will watch a short video clip that will help to describe the movement of particles and
their shapes. (1 minute)
a. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-KvoVzukHo
11. We will compare the predictions that we made with what we learned from the video and
right the correct responses on the board and in their science notebooks. (4 minutes)
12. We will have a quick review and the students will take a matching quiz about the
different states (on an overhead) and their forms, shape and movement. (5 minutes)
Assessment
Objective
Number
Type of
Assessment
Assessment Description
Depth of
Knowledge
1
Formative
DOK 1
1, 2
Formative
3, 4
Formative
Students will work in their group and quickly
identify that a block of wood is a solid, the water is a
liquid and the air in the balloon is a gas.
Students will write informal definitions of what they
think makes a solid, liquid and gas in their science
notebooks.
Students will make predictions as to how they think
molecules move in the three states of matter and the
shapes that they take in different containers.
1, 2, 3, 4
Summative Students will complete a quiz about the three states
of matter, their movement and shapes they take.
DOK 2
DOK 2
DOK 2
Name _________________________________
Date ________________________
Directions: Write which state of matter is being described by each of the pictures or statements.
Takes on
shape of
container
1. ________________
2. ________________
Free surface
to take on
shape of
container
3.__________________
Fixed Volume
(2 answers)
4._____________________
7. ____________________
5. _____________________
6. ___________________
Holds shape
of container
Volume of
container
8. ___________________
9. ____________________