Lesson plan for teaching the three states of matter (Science)

This was done quite sometime ago.

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Class: Primary 4-8 Number of pupils: 40 Date: 26th March 2008 Time: 9am to 10am		Topic: The three states of matter (Science) Ability: High Duration of lesson: 1 hour (2 periods)
Prerequisites	At the end of the lesson, the pupils will be able to 1) Identify matters. 2) Define the characteristics of matter.
Specific instructional objectives	At the end of the lesson, the pupils will be able to 1) State the three states of matter. 2) Identify characteristics of liquid and gas.
Activity Type	Tuning in: (20 minutes) Resources: States of matter powerpoint 1. Go through corrections for previous activities. 2. Redo the experiment for inverted cup in water as demonstration. Get students to feel the air coming out of the hole and at the same time see that the water does not enter through the small hole. 3. Recap the concepts taught for matter.
	Development: (20 minutes ) Resources: Box, packed air, textbook. 1. Get students to watch the video on the states of matter in the powerpoint. 2. Ask students the questions “How many states of matter did you see in the video?”; “What are the different states of matter?” 3. Discussion on the states of matter that they see on the video. 4. Go on to the slides with the different states of matter. 5. When discussing about solid: - Get students to see and touch the solid objects and see that the shape cannot be altered easily and has a definite shape and volume. 6. When discussing about liquid: - Get students to pour liquids into different shape containers, to see that liquid takes up the shape of the container. 7. When discussing about gas: - Get one of the students in the group to blow up a balloon and tie the balloon up. Pass the balloon around the group and get the students to squeeze the balloon to see whether they can alter the shape of the balloon. - Ask the students what is inside the balloon. - Note: Warn the students not to burst the balloon and blow the balloon to its maximum size. 8. Tell the students that they are going to be doing a science activity to investigate whether a liquid and a gas can be compressed.
	Application (Science activity) : (15 minutes ) Resources: Plungers and coloured water. 1. Get students to complete pg 27 and 28 of their activity book. 2. Students are to finish up their activity book during the lesson.
	Summary of lesson: (5 minutes) Resource: video clip on 4 states of matter. 1. Reinforce the definition of matter. 2. Get feedbacks from students on whether they think whether air is matter.

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