Matter 2
Matter 2
Matter 2
Erupting volcano: Educator will prepare a Does it dissolve in water?: Children will explore
volcano. Children will predict and make
Explicit / Intentional Teaching: different materials such as sugar, salt, flour and
observations about the erupting volcano. The Mat session: Introduction rice. Children will explore the materials and test if
materials needed are vinegar, baking soda, water, The educator will gather children onto the mat. To they dissolve in water.
dish soap and red food colouring. introduce the concept of chemical science, the
educator will read the story ‘Whopper Cake’ by
Karma Wilson. As the story is being read, the
educator will talk about the ingredient going into
the cake and how when they get mixed together
they change. Children will then engage in the
centres.
Assessment & Recording: (What are we assessing? How are we assessing? How are we recording?)
Educator will assess children’s engagement
Educator will assess children’s ability to use science process skills (predicting, communicating and observing)
Educator observation
A checklist will be used as the recording strategy that includes a comments column
OUTCOME 1: Children have a OUTCOME 2: Children are OUTCOME 3: Children have a OUTCOME 4: Children are OUTCOME 5: Children are
strong sense of identity connected with and contribute to strong sense of well being confident and involved learners effective communicators
Children feel safe, secure, and their world Children become strong in their Children develop dispositions for Children interact verbally and non-
supported Children develop a sense of social and emotional wellbeing learning such as curiosity, verbally with others for a range of
Children develop their emerging belonging to groups and Children take increasing cooperation, confidence, creativity, purposes
autonomy, inter-dependence, communities and an understanding responsibility for their own health commitment, enthusiasm, Children engage with a range of
resilience and sense of agency of the and physical wellbeing persistence, imagination and texts and gain meaning from these
reciprocal rights and responsibilities reflexivity texts
Children develop knowledgeable necessary for active community
and confident self identities Children develop a range of skills Children express ideas and make
participation and processes such as problem
Children learn to interact in relation meaning using a range of media
Children respond to diversity with solving, enquiry, experimentation,
to others with care, empathy and respect hypothesising, researching and Children begin to understand how
respect investigating symbols and pattern systems work.
Children become aware of fairness
Children transfer and adapt what Children use information and
Children become socially communication technologies to
responsible and show respect for they have learned from one context
to another access information, investigate ideas
the environment and represent their thinking
Children resource their own learning
through connecting with people,
place, technologies and natural and
processed materials