Heat and Cookies

We've been exploring heat in science. We read a book about heat and its sources and then created a circle map.

We discussed with our partners what happened in our popcorn experiment. Then we passed around sugar cookie dough to explore. We illustrated what our cookie dough looked like in our science journals and watched a short video clip about heat causing change on Discovery Streaming while our cookies baked.

 When they came out of the oven we looked at our cookies and discussed what changes we observed. Through interactive writing (where the students and I share the marker) we created a tree map to record our observations before and after heat. Then students illustrated what our cookies looked like after being heated in the oven.

Heat Causes Change

We've been learning about how heat causes change. We looked at a popcorn kernel and discussed it's properties and added them to our circle map in brown. We microwaved our popcorn and then discussed it's properties after change and added them to our circle map in blue.

Popcorn

We reviewed how heat causes change and compared/contrasted a corn kernel before and after it has popped. We also told addition stories using popcorn.

We tasted butter, cheese, and kettle popcorn. Then we voted for our favorite and graphed/analyzed the results.

We reviewed adjectives by using our five senses to describe our popcorn. We created an anchor chart together and then the students created their own popcorn adjectives.

Oh the Things You Can Learn with Cupcakes!!!

We read If You Give a Cat a Cupcake. We talked about how heat causes change. We made cupcakes and wrote and illustrated the cupcakes before and after we baked them.

We made a cupcake glyph to answer the following questions: What is your favorite kind of cupcake? How old are you? Do you like baking?.

We learned about a baker's job and decorated our cupcakes.

We illustrated and order the events from the story.

We wrote how to decorate a cupcake.

Then we ate our cupcakes!