This is a rough draft post. I’d love to say I’ll fluff it out but… my track record suggests otherwise. If you’re seeing it in this state and it’s not November, my track record holds. What can I say, I’m consistent! haha.
Below, find a schedule for semi-weekly primary-school science lessons for the month of November. A homeschool unit for November about – you guessed it – food. Note that this could easily be spread out to 4 or 5 days a week instead of 2! But we only do science twice a week in order to have time for social studies and extra curriculars.
- Intro to Chemistry
- Okay, today is pretty video heavy, but I feel like first graders need a whole lot of scaffolding for an intro to chemistry because for the most part, chemistry kind of just happens around them and they’re not super aware it is happening. The goal for today’s lesson is to learn 3 vocabulary words. What is Chemistry, What is Matter, and What is a Chemist?
- Scishow Kids Fizzy Soda Experiment
- Binogi Importance of Chemistry
- Crash Course What’s matter? or Miacademy What is matter?
- Free Animated Education What is chemistry
- Fold a paper in fourths and write Kitchen, bathroom, laundry room, and garage on each section. Then discuss with your kid what science might happen in each room. Write or draw your answer.
- Now on to the fun part! Scishow Make Your Own Ice Cream
- Okay, today is pretty video heavy, but I feel like first graders need a whole lot of scaffolding for an intro to chemistry because for the most part, chemistry kind of just happens around them and they’re not super aware it is happening. The goal for today’s lesson is to learn 3 vocabulary words. What is Chemistry, What is Matter, and What is a Chemist?
- classifying matter:
- Pick one:
- Miacademy What is it made of? and Materials and their properties
- —or—
- Generation Genius Classification of Materials and Material Properties and Purpose (if you can. We ordered a membership.)
- Want more? Crash Course Kids has a ton of videos on properties! Hunting for Properties; Wood, Water, and Properties; The Science of Lunch; and more!
- Magic School Bus Gets Ready, Set, Dough!
- Scishow baking a cake
- Make cupcakes. classify ingredients as wet or dry. While cupcakes are in the oven talk about salt and sugar and how they look the same up close but very different up close. Talk about the purpose of sugar or salt. Can we use them the same?
- Pick one:
- states of matter: Solid, liquid, gas
- Generation Genius solids, liquids, and gasses
- Smile and Learn states of matter and changes of state (better for younger)
- Miacademy States of Matter and Miacademy State Changes of Matter (better for older)
- Ice, water, and steam
- Hot chocolate lab (Try this one from Science Sparks) point out the steam coming from the liquid! and add a solid, either a solid piece of chocolate or a marshmallow that will melt.
- Check out the detailed help from This Reading Mama on States of Matter
- Want more and already have a brainpop subscription? Check out States of Matter and Matter Changing States.
- What is a mixture
- Crash Course Kids The Great Picnic Mixup
- Miacademy all mixed up
- Brainpop (requires membership) Compounds and Mixtures
- Salad
- Suspensions vs Solutions
- Scishow Potions
- Scishow Make Your Own Rock Candy
- ooblek
- Playdough
- Colloids
- emulsions
- Talk about how some liquids don’t mix. They need something more to create a mixture. A mixture of ingredients that don’t like to mix is called an emulsion. Check out a great lesson on Science Sparks on Emulsions.
- Scishow Kids Let’s Make butter
- Adding heat
- Generation Genius Heating and cooling
- Scishow Why does cooking eggs make them hard?
- Scishow Kids Why does Popcorn Pop?
- Make Popcorn! Since it’s tree-decorating time, we pop lots of popcorn and string it on thread and decorate our tree with it.
- Acids vs Bases
