Dominika Filipek

Lesson plan Everyday Materials Changing shape

Day:18.01.2016

Level: 2nd grade

Lesson info:

Time: 45 min

Main aims:
Objectives:

To revise names of the materials

To present vocabulary: twist, squash, bend, stretch
To show which objects could be twisted, squashed, bent and stretched.
Students will be able to correctly match objects that could be twisted, squashed, bent, stretched and present it.

Materials:

Textbook: p. 17, 26, 27

Supplementary:

Age range: 8-9

Other aids: song about materials

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=xOKr462HLc0), picture cards: bend, twist,
stretch, squash, word cards: bend, twist,
stretch, squash, realia: towel, squishable ball,
long plastic ruler, rubber band (word
presentation) plasticine, bar of chocolate,
soap, wood, plasticine, chalk, plastic
foam( self-discovery of the properties)
flashcards, posters

Stage
Warm up

Activity/ aids

Song about

Aim

materials:

To revise

Procedure

Ask children to listen to the song and to note down materials

mentioned in the song.

Ask students to compare their words in pairs.
Ask one student to read the answers.

Show students objects (towel, squishable ball, long plastic ruler,

rubber band, plasticine) and ask them what are they made of.
Present the words: bend, twist, stretch, squash showing the

materials

https://www
.youtube.co

Timing
6 min.

m/watch?
v=xOKr462
Vocabulary
presentation

HLc0
Towel,

squishable

To revise
materials

ball, long

and

plastic

5 min.

action.

introduce

ruler,

vocabula

rubber

ry: bend,

band,

twist,

plasticine

stretch,

squash
To

Drill the vocabulary with student using different pace and

modulation.

practice

1 min.

vocabula

ry
To

Show them word cards and read them as you show them, ask

practice

them to repeat after you. Show them pictures ask individual

written

students to match the pictures to the corresponding word cards.

3 min.

form of
the

Book p. 27

words
To find

Practice and

out what

self-

could be

exploration

squashed

Divide children in to groups, provide them with the objects, bar

of chocolate, soap, wood, plasticine, chalk, plastic foam.

Ask them to check which materials will change shape when they

10 min.

are squashed. Ask them to draw those materials before they are
squashed. Ask them to discuss the shape change. Does the
material keep its new shape when you take your finger? Ask
them to draw each material after they have squashed it. Initiate
discussion why do people use materials that squash and stretch.
Elicit that they make us comfortable. Say that people use

Book p. 17

Poster -

To

in the gaps using words: bent, twisted. Check the answers using

which

flashcards.

can be
twisted

and bent

Notebooks

materials that do not change shape to make strong objects.

Ask them to open their workbooks at page 17 and ask them to fill

practice
materials

model

Show them the empty poster ask them to come and glue elements
of the poster to the paper (for example towel could be twisted).

Ask them to write down as many objects as they can that could

2 min.

be: bent, twisted, stretched, and squashed. Ask them to count

their words. Ask who has got more words than 10 objects
written Ask the person with the biggest amount of words to

2 min.

read his words. Inform other students that they have to check
whether this person is correct.

To allow
them to
systemati

Posters-

Divide students into groups and ask them to prepare the poster
and present it based on the previously used model of the poster.

ze the

Produ

project

knowledg

ction

e and

and

allow

syste

them to

matiz

present

ation

the

10 min.

project

Homework:
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