Let Girls Learn STEM: Elementary Science

As part of the U.S. government's commitment to Let Girls Learn, First Lady Michelle Obama and the Peace Corps have formed a powerful collaboration to expand access to education for adolescent girls around the world. Educating girls is essential to healthy and thriving communities but, globally, 62 million girls are not in school, and barriers to adolescent girls completing school are particularly significant. In some countries, fewer than 10% of teenage girls complete secondary school.
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FOR GIRLS' SCHOOLS AND AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS FOR GIRLS

Let Girls Learn STEM: Elementary Science

States of Matter:

This science lesson is for young students and older students with special needs.

Ice, Water, and Steam

Goal:
Students will learn about the states of matter through observation and engagement.

Objective:
Students will physically interact with matter at three different states - solid, liquid, and gas - by identifying snow or ice as a solid, water from melted snow or ice as a liquid, and steam from melted snow or ice as a gas.

Outcomes:
1. Student provide information to create a concept map on a white board or other display area showing the three states of matter, using the students’ pictures and/or photographs, and images from the video.
2. Students work collaboratively in small groups or pairs using their collective pictures/photos showing the states of matter to create a “states of matter” timeline.
3. Students make their own picture or video books referring to the concept map and their group discussion timeline.