Changing States of Matter Year 4 (Make Butter)

Year 4 - Changing States of Matter
Practical lesson - used as a hook following Christmas start of new topic - link to food waste - ways to preserve.

This is a whole lesson where children make butter by shaking double cream in jars until it first becomes whipped cream and then butter. I prepared it to use in the first week back as a lesson to engage before moving on to solids, liquids and gases. It is an easy and fun practical lesson.

This resource comes with a lesson plan, a learning objective table/slip where children are encouraged to link their task to the forthcoming learning by answering two questions about how the liquid cream was different from the solid butter, and a power point presentation - my first slides relate to food waste at Christmas, but this could be easily edited to link to food waste more generally.

You will need to provide: several tubs of double cream, jars or lidded plastic tubs to use as shakers, salt, spoons, crackers.

I hope you enjoy using this resource and if you could take the time to feed back, I would be grateful.