Jackson

The Lab Safety activity allows students to cut and paste titles, pictures, and descriptions to the inside of a lab coat. It is an excellent way to begin the year, introducing basic lab safety to elementary students. It is also helpful in establishing expectations for cutting, pasting, and note-booking.

Students will learn the basics of matter through the following lab activities: What Am I? Students will identifying characteristics of matter. Matter ClassificationStudents will use their observations to group objects based on their characteristics. Mass Matters:Students will measure the mass of objects and compare them. Don't Be So Dense:Students will observe the ability of objects to sink or float. Each interactive lab enables students to communicate as pairs, as table groups, and as a whole g

The following activities are included in this packet: 1. Vocabulary Acquisition - Students will use words, pictures, and definitions to learn vocabulary. 2. Solid Density - Students will predict the density of 6 objects - Students will observe whether the objects sink or float. - Students will create a table of their results. - Students will write an open-ended response (OER) explaining the lab. 3. Liquid Density - Students will observe what happens when three liquids are pou

Students will observe the transformation of ice from a solid to a liquid and then to a gas. Students will measure the mass of ice at each stage, illustrate their observations, and describe what happens during each stage. At the end of the lab, students will draw a diagram that represents each state of matter. They will also write an open-ended response (OER) that applies what they have learned about the states of matter to chocolate. I have provided students with Hershey's kisses to demonstrate

Students will be introduced to 20 pieces of lab equipment and will have the opportunity to infer the purpose of the equipment based on their observations. Students will then classify the lab equipment based on their inferences. The packet includes: 1. two sets of 20 tool cards (one unlabeled set, one labeled set) 2. two jigsaw charts (one blank, one key) 3. one set of Four Corner activity labels 4. instructions for 4 student-centered activities (Jigsaw, Four Corners, What Am I?, Headbands)