Lesson 5: Boats
Duration of Days: 2
Lesson Objective
Students will choose an independent variable to investigate regarding penny boats.
Students will form a hypothesis around the independent variable they have chosen.
Students will record and display data gathered during their investigation.
Students will evaluate their initial hypotheses.
Which quality of pennies boats can you test for efficacy?
How will you test a quality of your penny boats for efficacy?
How can you ensure that you are only testing one variable at a time?
Independent variable
Dependent variable
Controls
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Students will practice creating and completing a full experiment on one independent variable at a time.
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Sentence starters
Modeling
Purposeful grouping
Chunking objectives
Check Ins
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