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How might you use this information as a new teacher?

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How might you use this information as a new teacher?

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This information is used to know what is taught before and after the topic you need to teach. Knowing what students have already learned and what you need to prepare them for allows you to know what you need to teach them.

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2nd Grade:
In second grade the students think in a concrete mindset, and are unable to visualize abstract concepts. Which is why they are only expected to identify the states of matter of certain objects, because identifying states of matter allows the students to observe the concrete example.

5th Grade:
In 5th grade the students cognitive developmental ability has progressed to abstract thinking. They can now visualize concepts they might not be able to Physically see. For example, when a liquid is transforming into a gas we are unable to see that process. They acquire the ability to understand that the liquid particles evaporate into the air and become a gas without the need of a concrete example.

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How is it sequenced in the curriculum at each level? Does your topic have multiple components?  If so, how should those components be sequenced? What topics might need to precede and follow your topic at each level? 

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How is it sequenced in the curriculum at each level? Does your topic have multiple components?  If so, how should those components be sequenced? What topics might need to precede and follow your topic at each level? 

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Components:

States of matter

Properties of matter

Sequence

The properties of matter component will come first because you can describe the state of matter through the properties. For example, if the student is identifying an object as flexible, that means the state of matter is a solid.

Second grade: the material is being learned for the first time

Fifth grade: the start of a lesson/being used to introduce something else.

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2nd grade:
Students will focus more on the states of matter (solid, liquid, gas). They will observe objects and identify the state based up their analysis of the object.

5th grade:
Students will review the states of matter they learned in previous grades, but focus more on the phase change. They understand that different objects have different states of matter, but they will now understand the transition from each phase change. For example, they will analyze how a ice cube is originally in a solid state, but because of the melting process, the phase changes to a liquid.

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Teaching through modeling

Grade 5 teaching manual

2nd Grade teaching guide

Science Standards

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Song/poem

Teacher expresses the different properties of objects through song or poem

Scavenger hunt

Students go around the room and try to find different materials that are solids, liquids, and gasses

“Describing Properties” chart (color, flexible, shape, texture)

Students investigate different materials to discover which materials have which simple properties

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“Describing Properties” chart (color, heat, magnetic, solubility, vinegar, iodine)

Students investigate different materials to discover more advanced properties of these materials

Students investigate different materials to discover more advanced properties of these materials

Scientific dialogue (class discussion)

Students have enough knowledge to have their own scientific discussion based on properties of matter

Melting/freezing ice cube to show the changes in states of matter

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How much of the topic is taught at each level? In how much depth is it addressed?

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How much of the topic is taught at each level? In how much depth is it addressed?

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At the fifth grade level, students should be identifying more properties and different materials than in second grade. In second grade, students are listing fewer and easier patterns of properties than the fifth grade students.

At 5th grade level examples of materials to be identified are baking soda, other powders, metals, minerals, and liquids. Examples of properties to be identified include color, hardness, reflectivity, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, response to magnetic forces, and solubility; density is not intended as an identifiable property.

At 2nd grade level examples of properties to observe are color, texture, hardness, and flexibility. Patterns could include the similar properties that different materials share

This topic is addressed again in middle school (6-8).

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In general, the topic, structure and properties of matter, spirals throughout the elementary curriculum because the topic itself is being taught within each grade level through similar hands-on activities, but the content of lessons and activities advances throughout each grade level.

phase changes of matter

identifying states of matter as they change from phase to phase

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2. Structure and Properties of Matter 2-PS1-2 Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.

5. Structure and Properties of Matter5-PS1-3 Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties

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Broad Topic: Structure & Properties of Matter

Narrow Focus: Classifying materials based on observations and their properties

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• Different kinds of matter exist and they can be classified as either solid, liquid, or gas. Matter can be described and classified by its observable properties.
• Different properties are suited to different purposes.
• A great variety of objects can be built up from a small set of pieces.