A 5-day lesson plan exploring the states of water, dissolving, temperature, and mixing. Kids explore yellow colour tower-building, sifting, and transferring ice cubes.
What children learn
- Identify ice as solid water and liquid water as shapeless, and observe melting and freezing changes.
- Compare hot, cold, and room-temperature water through safe observation.
- Observe how food colouring and layers of hot and cold water move and mix at different rates.
- Predict and test which powders dissolve in water and distinguish dissolved mixtures from slurries.
- Compare how quickly sugar dissolves in warm and cold water.
Key activities
- Passing and observing ice before exploring melting and changes of state
- Transferring ice cubes with spoons and tongs
- Comparing food-colour movement in hot, cold, and room-temperature water
- Layering hot and cold coloured water in jars
- Testing salt, sugar, flour, pepper, and sand for dissolving
- Comparing sugar cubes in warm and cold water and singing a water rhyme
You’ll need
water, ice cubes and bowls, spoons and tongs, glasses and jars, hot, cold and room-temperature water, food colouring, salt, sugar, flour, pepper, oatmeal and sand, sugar cubes, strainers, yellow flashcards and craft materials
Structure: 5 days; each day includes a Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, GMD, Cognition/Literacy, FMD, and Numeracy activities.