Build two, test which is best: K to 2nd science
Solve a problem: build, test and compare. A free K to 2nd lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.
Lesson plan
Goal
- Students work toward: solve a problem: build, test and compare.
Hook (5 min)
- Ask the class: Which house would stand up to a big wind?
- Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.
Teach (10 min)
- Say the big idea in one plain sentence: build two, test which is best.
- Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
- Have students tell a partner the idea in their own words.
Practise (15 min)
- Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
- Learn: Ramps and Strong Shapes (https://peabody.kids/world/build/build-ramps-and-shapes)
- Make: Build a wolf-proof house (https://peabody.kids/build/pigs-house-vs-wolf)
- Make: Launch a straw rocket (https://peabody.kids/build/straw-rocket)
Exit ticket (5 min)
- On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about build two, test which is best, and one question I still have.
- Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.
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