Lesson Materials

Per Student

• science notebook

• 1-2 sticky notes

• dark marker

Per Class

• charts: 

  • Notice and Wonder

  • Our Examples 

  • Our Initial Ideas: How They Work 

  • Our Growing Ideas 

  •  Initial Class Model (with pre-drawn picture)

• markers

• Takis Magnetic Sculpture (video in slides)

• Category C example images 

• tape

• Driving Question Board

Prep

Review 

• Lesson Plan

• Slides

• Assessment

Prepare 

• Locate and bring back out the Our Examples charts from Lesson 1. You will replace the “Not sure yet” row with a new Category C: Balanced and moving with magnets and metals.

• Print (in color, if possible) images of the Category C sculptures found in the Category C: Moving with Magnets and Metals reference. Images will be taped to the Our Examples chart as a reminder to students of sculptures that fit in the new category.

• Be prepared to chart the following during the lesson:

  • Notice and Wonder chart

  • Initial Class Model (with pre-drawn picture)

• Pre-draw the model scaffold from the Model to Explain Sculptures With Magnets and Metals handout in the science notebook (as shown in section 5 of the teacher manual) onto the initial class model chart paper.

• Be prepared for students to add to the Driving Question Board and Ideas for Investigation.

• If students need additional support for modeling, consider reading aloud the following text, Scientists Can Explain Using Models, to give students additional information about the practice of modeling.