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Lun Sian Cing Science UOI: Water

10 days Kindergarten 3

Lesson: Evaporation (Experiment: Ice Cube Painting)

Unit Overview
Main Idea (Claim) Summative Assessment
Water plays a central role in all living Drawings
things.

Guiding Questions Objectives (know/understand/do/value)

1. What is your favorite sea creature?
2. If you could color your favorite sea
creature in a different color, then
what color would you choose?
3. Do you think if we paint the
seahorse with color ice-cubes, will
it evaporate like the previous one?
The student will . . .
1. Come up with creative ideas to
color the seahorse.
2. Observe their experiment and be
alert about the evaporation of
water.
3. Observe and compare the result of
drawing with water and the result of
drawing with ice-cubes.

Time Instructional Procedures and Strategies

Beginning the Lesson

- What is your favorite sea creature?

- Today I will be reading you a story about a seahorse.
- Reading the story.

Developing the Lesson

- If you can draw a new color for your favorite sea creature, then what
color would you choose?
- Today, we will be coloring our own seahorses.
- Review: But wait! Lets check our drawings from last class and lets see
if we still have one?
- Why we cannot see it anymore?
- Thinking Hats On: Do you think the water from the ice-cubes will stay
there or evaporate?
- Instruction goes here. THE ICE CUBES ARE NOT FOR EATING!

Closing the Lesson

- The first student to finish neatly and quickly may water the Plant No. 2

Formative Assessment Differentiation

Drawing, Discussion to check for Encouraging the quiet students by
understanding. indirectly giving them chances to answer
the question.
Resources
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Lun Sian Cing Science UOI: Water
10 days Kindergarten 3

1. Water mixed with food-colorings and froze 2 hours before class.

2. Seahorse coloring paper.
3. Aprons for drawing.
4. Mister Seahorse by Eric Carle

Evaluation and Reflection