This lesson will be taught in a Pre-K ESE classroom with 19 students. They are between the ages of three to five years old. Nine of the children are developmentally delayed (with speech delays, ADHD, and/or Autistic tendencies). Two students are English language learners. 17 students are dual language learners.
Physical Science Physical Development
D. Fine Motor Development
1. Demonstrates increasing control of small muscles
Social and Emotional Development
A. Pro-social Behaviors
3. Joins in group activities and experiences within early learning environments Language, communication, and emergent literacy C. Vocabulary 1. Shows an understanding of words and their meanings
Cognitive
A. Mathematical thinking
f. Measurement
3. Represents and analyzes data
B.
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The students will identify whether each item sunk or floated and draw their own representations of each item in the corresponding column of the the simplified graph (labeled sink and float). Then, they will identify how many items are in each column and which one is higher.
The students will learn what floating, sinking, and predictions. I will explain to the children that objects that are not heavy, or light, will float and objects that are heavy will sink.
I will ask open-ended question such as: Why do you think the _________floated? Why do you think ____ sunk? Why was your prediction correct/incorrect? Which objects are the heavy? Which objects are the light? Which column do you think will have more items?
In the literacy center, I will have a copy of the book called Sink or Float so the students can look through it.
In the science/discovery area, I will set more pencils, sticky notes, Legos, pegs, etc. so the children can recreate the Sink or Float experiment on the water table.
Also, I will display pictures of the students completing the Sink or Float experiment.
In the computer center, I will leave the CBeebies’ Sink or Float video on, so that the children can re-watch it during their free