1. LESSON: MIXTURES
5th GRADE
UNIT: MATTER
Cal Music School

2. INTRODUCTION
Once a week, 5th grade students do one hour and a half of Science Project.
During all Once a week, 5are working the Unit of Matter. hour and they talked
the trimester, they th grade students do one Previously,
about matter, propperties of matter, states of matter, change of state, pure
substances and mixtures and types of mixtures.
In this Lesson students are going to experiment with homogeneous and
heterogeneous mixtures.
LESSON PLAN
Title of the Lesson: Mixtures
Unit of Study: Matter
Level and group 5thGrade
Date: 28-01-2014
Number of children 12
Background Information:
The lesson will be implemented in the classroom. Ones per week, we implement Science
Project with half of the students of the class. The session are of 1 hour and 30 minutes. During
the trimester we are going to do the Didactic Unit of Matter.

3. Learning objectives:
OBJECTIVES
COMPETENCES AND
ASSESSMENT
Competencies involved:
C1. Linguistic communicative.. competence.
C3. Knowledge of, and interaction with the
physical world.
to do an experiment
to do some mixtures
to learn what a mixtures is
to see the difference between homgeneous and
heterogeneous mixtures
to read instructions in English
to use English to communicate
to use English explain a simple experiment
to write a simple text
to read simple texts in English
Assessment:
- Assess the knowledge of the students in the
conversation before the experiments.
C4. Competence in information and
- Assess the capacity of follow the instructions of
communication technologies
the experiments.
- Assess the capacity of analyze the results.
- Assess the the presentation to the group
(language and knowledge).
C7. The competence of learning to learn.
C8. The competence of personal autonomy and
initiative.
- A final summary of the activity completing a
written activity.

4. DEVELOPMENT
Activity title
Time
Description
Interaction
Skills
1.
Mixtures 10
brainstorming minutes
The teacher does questions to the
students about matter, states of
matter, substances and types of
mixtures
T-Ss
L- S- I
2.
Giving 5 minutes
instructions
Teacher forms 3 groups of 4.
She/he explains that each group
must consult a web page with an
experiment, does the experiment,
reflects on it, completes a card
about
it
and
prepares
a
presentation to the big group
explaining it.
T-Ss
L-S-I
3.
Development
The group goes to the computer
and reads the experiment. They
prepare the experiment and do it.
They complete the card and
prepare the presentation.
Ss-Ss
L-W-S-R-I
Ss-Ss
S- L-I
4.
Presentations
45
minutes
30
minutes
Each group explains to the class
the experiment they have done and
the results

5. BLOOM'S TAXONOMY AND
RESOURCES
Bloom's Taxonomy:
Creating
Evaluating
Analysis
Applying
Understanding
ICT resources
3 Computers to consult these web pages:
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/experiments/oilandwater.html
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/experiments/quicksand.html
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/experiments/dissolvingsugar.html
RESOURCES EXPERIMENT RESOURCES EXPERIMENT
1
2
RESOURCES EXPERIMENT
3
Small soft drink bottle
Water
Food colouring
2 tablespoons of cooking oil
Dish washing liquid or
detergent
Sugar
Cold water in a clear glass
Hot water in a clear glass (be
careful with the hot water)
Spoon for stirring
1 cup of maize flour
Half a cup of water
A large plastic container
A spoon

6. RESOURCES

7. DEVELOPMENT

8. PRESENTATIONS
REFLECTIONS
The experience was very positive and I have
learnt a lot because I have never introduced
experiments in my Sciences lessons.
First, students were expectant because they
saw all the material prepared in the tables. It
was a bit difficult to relax them and create a
good atmosphere.
If I have to repeat the activity I will talk about
the experiments in previous lessons in order to
avoid the nervous atmosphere of the class.
I was surprised about the time because we
didn't have problems with timing.
Concerning to the language, in general, they
used English. I am very proud of them because
I think that they make a big effort in Science
Project classes.