Science Connections:

ELA Connections: 3rd grade students defined content vocabulary and wrote informational pieces to show their understanding of matter and how heating and cooling

effect the properties of liquids, solids and gases. They also demonstrated knowledge of content through oral presentations during ELA time of various experiments completed during science lessons. Students brought recipes from home to practice how to write a recipe and learn how important proportions of particular properties affect the final product. We also got an opportunity to review proportions and abbreviations, as well as following several step directions. The following texts help support our learning:

Step-by-Step Experiments With Matter by Gina Wagler. This nonfiction text explains what matter is and its different states. It also included experiments to test different matter concepts.

Melting Matter by Amy Hansen . This nonfiction text allowed students to investigate what happens when different objects experience different conditions.

How to Read a Recipe by Anitra Budd. This was an introduction to how to read the basic features of a recipe, such as the ingredients list and the importance of following directions. The text features in this text provided a model as we wrote our own personal recipe for a class recipe book.

Math Connections: Cooking requires a good understanding of mass and volume. During the second quarter the third graders needed to answer the question; 'What is Mass and what is Volume?" Students focused on learning the answer to this question during math class. They began by working with mass. They learned about grams and kilograms. They practiced using bucket scales, spring scales, and digital scales. The first picture carousel is of students learning how to use the different scales and then weighing pumpkins using the knowledge they have gained about grams and kilograms. The mass lessons were followed with volume lessons. Students learned about milliliters and liters. The second picture carousel is students learning to use tools to measure the liquid volume of different amounts of water.

Cooking also requires the ability to follow directions and the ability to write their own directions for the personal recipes they created. In math class they completed two separate assignments to practice following directions and required them to practice finding the mass and volume of the ingredients needed for each assignment. Their first assignment was making a lava lamp bottle. The second assignment was making Jello. The third image carousel is pictures of students measuring out ingredients for their lava lamp bottles and then pictures of their completed task, a lava lamp bottle. Underneath the image carousels are the two project assignments students completed for mass and volume.