Students will participate in multiple hands on activities with states of matter over several days.

Science Instructional Plans (SIPs) help teachers align instruction with the Science Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the content and the scientific and engineering practices found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.

Science Instructional Plans (SIPs) help teachers align instruction with the Science Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the content and the scientific and engineering practices found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.

Students are given the scenario: You want to start a new summer business while you are off from school, you want to make and sell snow cones at your local playground, but you don’t want them to melt on the walk there. Can you design and create a container that will slow down the rate at which your snow cones will melt?  Criteria include the size of the container and the determination of the temperature.

Students investigate what affects evaporation as they plan their own investigation with teacher guidance.  The data book outlines the development process.  This investigation helps lead students to going beyond a ‘cookie-cutter’ investigation and guides them to designing their own original investigation.