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Lesson Plan
Name: Pam Harbers Grade/Subject: Grade 1 Subject: Science
Topic: Gingerbread experiment Date: December 12, 2016 Length of Lesson: 30 minutes
General Learning Describe materials and objects that have been observed and manipulated, and identify what was
Outcomes (P.O.S.) done and found out.
Specific Leaning 1. predict what they think will happen or what they might find
Outcomes (P.O.S.) 2. manipulate materials and make observations that are relevant to questions asked
3. describe what was observed, using pictures and oral language
Learning Students will
Objectives 1. Students will make predictions using scientific reasoning
2. students will reflect on their predictions after the experiment has been performed
Materials Gingerbread men
Water
Beaker
Eyedroppers

Procedure Assessment Methods

Introduction Today we are going to do an experiment with a gingerbread man. Who •
(1min.) remembers reading the story about the gingerbread man? How did he Formal: verbal
get across the lake? (the fox carried him) but why didn’t he just swim answers to the
across the lake instead of jumping on the fox’s back. That is what we question “why didn’t
are going to find out today: why didn’t the gingerbread man want to the Gingerbread Man
get in the water. want to go in the
water?”

Body of Lesson Body •

(22 min.) Every table is going to get one gingerbread man, one beaker of water
and one eyedropper. Formal: are students
Before we do this experiment students will receive their experiment able to follow
paper. experiment procedure
I will explain that the purpose of this experiment is to determine what step by step.
will happen when the gingerbread man gets wet.
Together as a class we will brain storm three hypotheses and I will Formal: are student
write them on the white board. Students can choose one from the three recording their
we brainstormed and wrote it at the top of their experiment sheet. findings
I will explain to students that each table member will get a turn to fill
the eyedropper and squeeze it on the gingerbread man but we will start
with the number of the day.
At this time I will show students how to use an eyedropper by
squeezing the top and keeping it squeezed while putting it in the water
then let it go and squeeze again all while under the water and pull it Formal: are students
back up and one eye dropper full will count as one drop for our able to reflect on
experiment. results and make new
After each time someone puts a drop of water on the gingerbread man predictions about what
students have to record what happened. They have to circle the word will happen next.
that applies to the state the cookie is in and draw a picture of what it
looks like. Student will do this eight times in total.

Closure (7 min.) 1. When all students are finished we will have a class discussion Formal: are students
about what results student got and if their hypotheses were able reflect on their
correct. predictions in order ot
answer the question
“why didn’t the
Gingerbread Man
want to go in the
water?”
Sponge Activity Students will respond to the experiment using their 5 senses. How does •
it feel when it is touched, how does it smell, how does it taste, what

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does it look like, and can you hear anything when the water is poured
on (crackling?).

Reflection

I put the gingerbread men on paper towels and the water seeped though and made a bit of a mess so next time I would put the
gingerbread men in a container of some type to make the clean-up easier.

I had an outline of a gingerbread man for student to colour and draw on, but by the end it wasn’t in the shape of a gingerbread
man anymore. Next time I would leave the drawing column blank and let the students draw their own gingerbread man.

I only incorporated two of the five senses in this experiment (sight and touch). Next time I would include all five senses in
the experiment. Have a column for each sense and brainstorm with student’s words that describe each sense and write three
options for them to choose from on the board.

I allotted eight spaces for eight eyedroppers full of water but this was too may times. After about four times the gingerbread
man was already a pile of mush. Next time I would either get bigger gingerbread cookies or reduce the number of eye drops.