Physical
Science Kit Resources
Solids
and Liquids: Tips for Teachers
The following Tips for Teachers were generated to better serve
the Elementary teacher s of the Vancouver School District.
If you have any of your own Tips, please send them to me (Kris
Skrutvold at the following email address: kskrutvo@vansd.org)
and I will post them on the Kit Resources web-site. (Currently
being developed)
Kit Needs and Concerns
Lesson 1-5
Need more prep time for charts, colored objects, etc.
Need space for rolling
Lesson 6
Keeping track of the 20 objects
Need sinks in classrooms
Lesson 8-13
Double bag liquids
Need sinks in every classroom
Help with opaque, translucent, transparency
Lesson 14-16
Get Borax for extension ideas
Liquid Lasagna
Neat ideas from the book Simple Science Concoctions
Bird feather dipped in oil and try to clean off
Management of clean up without sinks
Make and manipulate oobleck
Kit Modifications
Lesson 1: Observing and Describing Two Solids
Use trail mix to help show mixtures
Identify the difference between solids: example: screw, Popsicle
stick, plastic tube, which one does not belong?
Have a scavenger hunt
Lesson 2: Observing Properties
Difficult to arrange the hardness of 20 objects
Identify additional solids that share the same properties and
put in a
sorting circle
Lesson 3: Comparing Solids That Roll with Solids That Stack
Use a shallow box to collect rolling objects
Lesson 4: Rolling Solids
Define stack, roll and slide
Lesson 5: Testing the Hardness of Solids
Lesson 6: Investigating Solids in Water
Put more focus on floating and sinking
Place objects in water more than one angle
Lesson 7: Testing Solids with a Magnet
Lesson 8: Guess My Reason
Lesson 9: Investigating Two New Solids
Lesson 10: Observing and Describing Two Liquids
Double bag any liquids
Don't put any liquids in mouth
Label spoons with name of liquids
Lesson 11: Investigating Liquids
Opaque/Translucent/Transparency very vague
Lesson 12: Flowering Liquids
Lesson 13: Drop Races
Lesson 14: Mixing Liquids
Have centers to extend mobility and viscosity
Lesson 15: Investigating Two New Liquids
Lesson 16: Comparing Solids and Liquids
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