This quick and succint powerpoint slide presentation is useful for teachers. It provides a quick, background overview for teachers and students on the properties of materials.
2-PS1-1 Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties. Clarification Statement: Observations could include color, texture, hardness, and flexibility. Patterns could include the similar properties that different materials share. Assessment Boundary: none
This resource was not designed to build towards this performance expectation, but can be used to build towards it using the suggestions provided below.
Comments about Including the Performance Expectation The slide show merely provides background information for the teacher in an easy to use format.
This resource appears to be designed to build towards this science and engineering practice, though the resource developer has not explicitly stated so.
Comments about Including the Science and Engineering Practice The practice is not addressed. The teacher would be able to use this resource to identify the questions that students might ask, and reflect on which questions would be ideal to be answered using investigations.
This resource appears to be designed to build towards this disciplinary core idea, though the resource developer has not explicitly stated so.
Comments about Including the Disciplinary Core Idea The resource provides teachers with the background information to anticipate questions and connections from the students about different properties. Teachers can use the resource to support discussions and investigations conducted in the classroom about how and why materials are classified and the different possible uses of materials with these properties.
This resource appears to be designed to build towards this crosscutting concept, though the resource developer has not explicitly stated so.
Comments about Including the Crosscutting Concept The resource is useful because it organizes the concept of properties of matter in generalizable terms that would make it easier for teachers to support students in identifying and classifying materials by properties.