S+3.2.1+Lesson+2

= LESSON PLAN = created by: Foothill and Eagle Valley 1st grade teams

__Core Objective/Standard__:
Standard: Physical science Objective 2. Analyze objects and recored their properties.

__Student learning objective__:
Sort, classify, and chart objects by observable properties, e.g. size, shape, color, and texture. This lessons specifically focuses on texture.

__Materials needed__:
Use as an extension for Investigations(new) Unit 4 ("What Would You Rather Be?"), Investigation 1. Have students bring about 20 small food items from home (cereal, raisins, candies, pasta, crackers, beans, etc.) - teacher will mix together all the items then put a small scoop into cups or baggies, one for each child Glue Large poster for display board.

__Teacher (To) directions/actions/instructions__:
Start with whole group and teacher shows one small cup of items. THINK ALOUD: I want to sort all of these food items, I could sort by color or shape, but I'm pretty good at sorting that way so I want to sort in a new way today. I've noticed these all have different textures- or they feel different when I touch them. Touch your desk, how does it feel? Touch your chair, how does it feel? They have different textures. I will classify these objects by texture today. Model/think aloud how each object feels and put it into different piles. (ex. this feels very smooth so I will put it over here and call it the smooth pile, then this Cheerio is not as smooth I will call it rough and put it in the rough pile, this candy is very bumpy so I will make a bumpy pile. (Go to "with" part of lesson) As I finish sorting I want to label each pile so other people will know how I sorted my items.

__Teachers/Students (With) actions__:
Call a few volunteers up to sort a few items from your pile. Help them come up with other vocabulary words for classifying objects by texture. Possibly write a class list of words to use when sorting by texture.

__Students (By) actions/activities students will do during lesson__:
Give items to students to sort. Encourage them to sort by texture. They will glue objects down on a large poster and label categories. Finish by displaying posters/discuss how different children chose to classify different objects.

__Assessment-these may be written, verbal, observations, etc__:
Look at finished sorting poster to determine if the students were able to classify by texture.

Follow up by playing Guess My Rule. Sort by texture and see if students can determine the sorting rule.