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Matter, Matter Everywhere

First Grade

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Exploring Our Senses

 

Pick a topic and explore it on the internet:

1. Learn about your five senses.

 

2. Where can I learn about the forms of water?

 

3.  Where can I learn about rocks?

 

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Matter Hunt


Use a digital camera.

Take pictures of things you can smell, hear, taste, or feel.
(You can do this inside or outside--if you have an adult with you.)
Download the pictures into Microsoft Word.

 

Matter Sort 

 

Use the cursor to move the photos around and sort them into groups by sight, taste, smell, or touch.

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Scavenger  Hunt                         

 

Get into teams.                         
Go on a scavenger hunt.               
Find things from this list.        

 ___ something red                        
 ___ something hard                      
 ___ something with no smell        
 ___ something bumpy                    
 ___ something shaped funny         
 ___ something shiny                     
 ___ something salty                       

 

Share your findings with your friends.


Draw Your Findings

 

Draw what you found on KidPix.

 

 

Sort Your Findings

 

Use the cursor to sort your Scavenger Hunt things by sight, smell, taste, or touch.

 

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Sorting Matter


Use Microsoft Word

Make a 4-square table.  
Label each box with hear, taste, smell, touch.
Use Clip Art to cut and past things that you can hear, touch, taste, or smell.  Try to find two pictures for each box.

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Properties Patterns

 

Use Kid Pix stamps to create patterns

Make big and little things.

Make living and non-living things.

Make your own groups.

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Properties Puzzles


Choose 4 pictures from those you took with the digital camera.

Think about 1 of these pictures. 

Write 3 clue questions about your object.  (The answers must be "yes" or "no".)

Find a friend. 

Have the friend look at the 4 pictures and ask you your questions.

See if they can find the right picture.

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More Properties Puzzles

 

Choose 1 of these topics - (clock, hamster, book, apple, pencil)

List words to describe your topic - (For example round)

Type your describing words.

Share your typed describing words to see if your partner can guess which thing you described.

 

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Wichita Public Schools

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Wichita State University

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