Natural Science Lesson Plan Essay

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Lesson Plan: Introduction to Matter
Educator: Jessica Burde
Grade: 8
School Name: Boost Educational Support Centre

1. BACKGROUND INFORMATION:

a. Student and Classroom Characteristics

This Natural Science class consists of 27 students who are engaged in science learning for approximately 45 minutes, 3 times a week. Students are seated at tables. There are six groups of four students at each table and one table of three students. During Natural Science, students are expected to work collaboratively on hands-on or inquiry based projects/ assignments. Throughout various natural science lessons, students are expected to use observational skills as well as they are required to utilise the steps to the scientific method. When students are engaged in the science lesson, they make observations, inferences, and record data in either their workbooks or lab sheets. At …show more content…

Students will be evaluated based on their performance in the lab activity as well as evaluated by their peers during the learning centre activities.

b. Content

In this lesson, students will learn about the six main examples of the physical properties of an object, which are thermal conductivity, state, density, solubility, ductility and malleability.
Students will define important terms such as physical property, density, and physical change.
Furthermore, they will apply these terms and concepts to hands-on learning activities on determining the densities of various objects while incorporating previously gained knowledge of mass and volume.

c. Introduction

At the front of the room, students will observe a density column filled with corn oil, water, shampoo, dish detergent, and maple syrup. Students will need to respond to the question: “What do you think causes the liquid in this container to look the way it does?”

d. Learning

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