Matter Unit Test

Good evening Wise Owls! I hope we are all geared up for our first unit test in Science on matter! We will be completing this unit test tomorrow, first thing in the morning! I am excited to see what all we have learned!

Today we played a review game in order to prepare ourselves for tomorrow. The game is ZAP! The students are split into two teams. This time we played as Side 1 and Side 2. The students are chosen from random with my "Handy Dandy Stick Picker". We rotate back and forth between each side. The student is called on (based on what stick I picked) and is given the amount of points the question is worth and then the points. The student has one opportunity to answer (I usually give a little slack and give them a second chance to answer if they don't get it right at first.) If they are incorrect it goes to the next side and I pick a new stick. But the game doesn't stop once the correct answer is given! The student who gives the correct answer must come up and pick a card at random from the ZAP! board!

Here is where things get tricky! The ZAP! board is FULL of twists and turns! The student can pick anything from "Add 2 points to your team" to "Take all of the other team's points" to "ZAP! your own team"! When you ZAP! a team they lose all of their points! It's a fun game and my Wise Owls get REALLY into it! I have to say it was a close call today! It all came down to the last card that we drew which was for the student to ZAP! their own team! But our Wise Owls are great sports and supported the other team and congratulated them on a great game! I was VERY proud! 

To finish our review, we recorded all of the words that we learned for our matter unit in our whole brain learning exercise "Miss Whittemore Says..." 

Posted below is the video so that you can review each of the words with your students! Hopefully the student can remember all of them and not have to look at the video first! If not, let them look at the video for a quick reminder! In case you did not want them to watch the video first, I will list the words for you to use. Just simply say, "Mom (or Dad, Aunt, Nana) says..." and then say the word you choose! The student should give a chant and a motion! If you have the ability to record your student doing the chants and motions, send me a video and I'll give them a prize! Good luck studying Wise Owls and I know we'll do GREAT tomorrow!

Matter Unit Word List

Matter

Mass

Temperature

Buoyancy

Density- their favorite!

Magnetism

Solid

Liquid

Gas

Physical Change

Condensation

Evaporation