Homemade Modeling Clay Experiment
Homemade Modeling Clay Experiment
LEARNING N° 5
SEQUENCE STRATEGIES
DIDACTICS
Problematic: We have the following situation: 'Miss Cesi went to the turquoise classroom to borrow modeling clay and
Miss Veronica went to the drawing and painting area and recalled that it had been used for her two days earlier.
volcano experiment, Miss Cesi got very sad
We ask:
Where did Miss Cesi go?
What was I looking for?
- ¿qué le dijo la miss verónica? ¿Cómo se sintió la miss cesi? ¿Qué podemos hacer para ayudarle a la miss cesi?
Motivation: with the boys and girls gathered in assembly, It will be motivated by presenting a surprise box.
Accompanied by the song 'Surprise Passes', expectations will be generated through the following
questions What will it be? Why did I bring it? What does the box contain? With the help of the children, it
Start proceed to discover the contents of the box in which there will be modeling clays, and in a bag, flour, salt
water, oil, powder to prepare drinks, a container, and a piece of paper with the following question: is this modeling clay
Will it be enough for Miss Cesi's thirty children? And will what is in the bag help solve the problem?
of Miss Cesi, is she no longer sad?
Prior knowledge: we promote dialogue through questions such as: What will it be? What is it for?
Will I have brought? How will the modeling clay be made? What ingredients will be used? Would you like to make modeling clay? and
If we make clay in the garden or at home, will it be the same as the one we buy? And what will it be called?
Purpose: the teacher communicates the purpose of the session: children today we are going to experiment on how to create
homemade modeling clays. With the boys and girls, compliance with the coexistence rules is agreed upon:
- take care of the materials.
- maintain order and cleanliness.
We problematize situations: gathered in assembly, we ask you to observe the things we have brought in the bag.
what we have brought. We pose the following questions:
What do we have here?
Development Will the flour be suitable for making playdough?
Are these materials usually used to make play dough?
Are we going to try to make them think we are children?
We invite you to the our hypotheses are: boys and girls to
express your Can we have modeling clay without the need to buy it? From what answers from
in an orderly manner and respecting the
way?
turn of the other.
yes, with flour.
Design
No, because I don't know how to do it.
strategies: himself
ask a the children to give their
yes, with water
possible answers
hypothesis to the yes, with salt question
mentioned above.
Ask them to first present their hypothesis as a group and then to express what they think.
They will build a single response together. We write down the hypotheses on a big sheet of paper and stick it in a place.
visible from the classroom.
Do you remember when we made our hypotheses to create the volcano when we did it with Coca-Cola soda?
and the mint candy did not turn out at the end, some said that the soda would change to blue, others said it would explode,
others, that if it is going to come out. We will also give possible answers as to whether it will come out or not and which hypothesis will be
correct
Ask the girls and boys: what activities helped us verify the answer to the initial question?
We talked with the boys and girls about what they learned. It encourages each work team to park
Draw the procedure for inflating the balloon in a paleographer.
Finally, the children evaluate the activity carried out through metacognition: Did they enjoy it?
Closure activity?
The teacher evaluates the learning activity with evaluation instruments such as the checklist.