Practicing Science : H ands-on Activities

1. Practicing Science:Hands-on Activities Grades K - 5 Observing, Sorting, Measuring and Comparing Matter Embedding the Florida Standards Division of Academics - Department of Science

2. Can you Guess my Button? Look at these buttons. Listen as I describe a button. Here are my clues: Its shape is a circle. It has 2 button holes. Its size is small. Its color is yellow. This is my button. What do my clues describe about buttons? properties What properties did I use? Number of Division of Academics – Department of Science

3. We use our Senses Sight - Looks Color Number of Holes Shape Size Touch – Feels (texture) Hear – Sounds when dropped Smell – Odor Taste Eyes Hands and Fingers Ears Nose Mouth How do we tell buttons and other objects apart? to describe each object’s properties Division of Academics – Department of Science

4. Let’s listen to The Button Box tolearn more properties that can describe buttons Properties We Found Division of Academics – Department of Science

5. Properties of My Button Division of Academics – Department of Science

6. Reflection • Can a button have more than one property? Explain. • How did you discover the properties of each button? • Did you use all of your senses? Why or Why not? • Which of the five senses were important to your observations of buttons? Division of Academics – Department of Science

7. What are Properties? A property is something about an object you can observe with your senses. Color, shape, and size are properties. How something feels is a property. How can you describe a ___________? We use our sensesto tell about its properties. Division of Academics – Department of Science Excerpt from Scott Foresman Gr. 1 Quick Study

8. How Can We Sort? We can use our senses to sort matter in different ways. We can group matter by how it feels. Some matter may feel hard or bumpy. We can group matter by shape. Matter can have many different shapes. (Gr. 1 Scott Foresman Quick Study) How can we sort these buttons? We can sort by color: blue - red – green – yellow Matter can be different colors. We can sort bysize: large - medium – small Matter can be different sizes. Division of Academics – Department of Science

9. Practicing ScienceSort, Group, Classify • Observe the objects in your basket. • Discuss their common properties. • Decide on a way to sort your objects. • Sort the objects. Name your groups. • Talk about why you classified them as you did. • Can you sort your objects in another way? Try it. Division of Academics – Department of Science

10. Claim Evidence (CE) Assignment: Think like a scientist to write an answer to this question: How do you learn about the properties of objects? Claim:(A sentence that states how you learn about properties of objects.) Evidence: (Examples of what you do to learn about properties of objects.) Division of Academics – Department of Science

11. Getting Started First think about: Use your resources: Classroom charts, word walls and bulletin boards Science notebook Observations from hands-on activities and videos Reading passages Your textbook • What is a possible claim? • Where can you find your evidence? • What science words will you want to include? • Where can you find science and other words to help you write? Division of Academics – Department of Science

12. You can look for help in your textbook. Let’s read. Science words Claim: I use my senses to… Evidence I can see … I can feel… Division of Academics – Department of Science

13. CE Samples Claim: I use my senses to learn about properties of objects. Claim:I know I can use my senses to learn about properties of objects. Evidence: Here is how I found my pencil’s properties. First I used my eyes to look at my pencil. My pencil’s color is yellow. Its shape is long and round. Second I used my hands to feel the pencil. It is smooth. Then I used my ears to describe the sound it made when I dropped it. It sounded like a plop, plop. Last I used my nose to describe its smell. It smells like wood. Evidence: My button I use my to look Color – green Shape - circle Number of holes – 4 I use my Feels - smooth I drop it and use my I hear – click, click Division of Academics – Department of Science

14. CER Sample Claim: I know I can use my senses to learn about properties of objects. Reasoning: Here is how I used my senses to observe my pencil’s properties. First I used my eyes to look at my pencil. I can see my pencil’s color is blue with yellow stars. Its shape is long and round like a can. I can see one end is sharpened with a point. Next I used my hands to feel it. It feels smooth and hard. Then I used my ears to describe the sound it made when I dropped it. It sounded like a plop, plop. Last I used my nose to smell it. It smelled like wood. Using my senses helped me learn properties of my pencil. Evidence: Pencil’s properties: Color: blue and yellow Shape: long and round like a can with one end sharpened and the other end with an eraser. Feels: smooth and hard One end feels sharp and the other end feels rubbery. Sounds when dropped: plop, plop Smell: woody

15. Grades 2 - 5Practicing Science Like a Scientist Observation, Measurement and Investigation Stations • Observe a Rock • Classify Rocks • Measure a Rock’s Length • Weigh a Rock 5. Measure a Rock’s Volume (Gr. 4 & 5) 6. Bubbles and Fizz (Gr. 4 & 5) Division of Academics – Department of Science

16. Practicing Science:Teacher Reflection How didyou see the Florida Standards being integrated in the hands-on activities? Division of Academics - Department of Science