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still thinking
By b

okay, so i'm still sitting here trying to think of how you can do this for your kids. i have just completed this lesson with my lessons on physical property/matter with them. it took us awhile, and i'm going to reinforce
it all year long....
i might not make sense here because i'm just typing whatever pops into my brain!! sorry
but i might have another idea...what if you spent a few days talking about solids, liquids, and gases with the kids. you pick and object that is a solid. and then describe the physical properties, do the same for liquid...and gas is just difficult. i was very brief with my kids

on this.

so for example: we would talk about a book. it's an example of matter, a solid, and then go on to list hte physical properties of that book.

do the same for a liquid. show how liquids change shapes by pouring the same cup of colored water into different shaped cups...then have them describe the physical properties of water.

gas was very difficult concept for the kids to get. i told them if i could color the air, we would see that it filled up the whole room and takes up all the space it can....still tricky. so then i used a helium balloon to show them....

OKAY, so now for the assessment part of it...what if they made a collage of just solids and liquids? they would cut out pics from magazines and then glue them on the correct side of their chart paper. they can do this in groups and work together. my kids loved this part of it.

i almost like the idea of doing just matter and physical properties only. the kids seemed to enjoy it. and we took a long time for it....

when is your observation by the way???