Ice cream soup (story + activity)

Type of resource: website, guidelines, video, game

Web address https://preschoolsteam.com/steam-storytime-for-preschoolers-frozen-oobleck/

Language: English

Description

Making ice cream from oobleck.

Scientific concept introduced

Freezing, melting, temperature, liquid, solid.

Creative and critical thinking

To design their own ice cream.

Mathematical reasoning

To measure the ingredients.

To classify the final product.

To count the cubes.

Scientific thinking

To ask questions, predicting, experimenting.

To draw conclusions based on evidence.

Learning how to learn

Building a feeling of self-efficacy in learning.

Motivation to learn and engage.

Additional

Technology: using a timer.

To share ideas.

To follow the safety rules and discipline.

Fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination.

Vocabulary.

Ice cream soup (story + activity)

Overall aims

To develop the ability to observe and discover
To improve children’s problem-solving (take initiative).
To see firsthand a melting process.
To create the learning opportunity for explaining the concepts of freezing, melting, liquid, solid, temperature.

Vocabulary – keywords should be understood

Ice cream, soup, freezer, freezing, melting, temperature, ice cube trays, oobleck, scoops.

Expected learning outcomes (operational aims)

To follow the experiment
To design the ice cream (with glitter and others)
To build their ice cream with the blocks of oobleck
To explain the concept of melting
To measure or calculate the time
To understand when something melts

STEM skills – to which the learning unit is related to

CORE STEM SKILLS

● Asking questions.
● Analysing and solving problems.
● Designing experiments.
● Conducting research.
● Drawing conclusions based on results.
● Motivation to learn and engage.
● Self-discipline and self-regulated learning (cognitive autonomy).

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

Sharing ideas – negotiating meanings
Hand-eye coordination
Taking common decisions
Basic literacy- listening with comprehension

Teaching methodologies/activity outline

1- Read the book , Ice Cream Soup, by Ann Ingalls

2- Discuss what happens to ice cream when it is out of the freezer – Ask questions

3- Maye your own oobleck by mixing 2 cups of cornstarch with 2 cups of water

4- Add two tablespoons of cocoa for chocolate flavored oobleck (optional)

5- Pour oobleck into an ice cube tray and freeze overnight

6- Pretend the oobleck cubes are scoops of ice cream and design and build an ice cream cake.

7- Add glitter to decorate (optional)

8- Use a timer to record how long it takes for the oobleck to melt

9- Give them time to experiment with the cubes, and see the changes that happen

10- Observe what happened to the oobleck. What has happened?

11- Ask questions:
What does the oobleck feel like? How does it feel after melting? What is different between oobleck and ice cream? And what is similar?

Assessment of learning

Initial evaluation
– Get to know the previous knowledge they could know about the same theme.

Continued evaluation
– Progressively acquire basic habits of autonomy in everyday actions, to act safely and effectively.
– Observe and explore the immediate, natural and physical environment, with an attitude of curiosity and respect and gradually participate in social and cultural activities.
– Participate in the activity, through movement, assimilating sensations related to touch and time and with a progressive understanding of the necessity of some norms.
– Use the oral language, gesture and images to express ideas, desires, feelings and emotions; Listen and participate actively in regular situations.
Conversation and learning with the use of non-discriminatory language, and with attitude of respect towards other cultures and different languages.
– Manifesting the necessary abilities to be able to listen, observe, interpret and create in the different languages: verbal, body, plastic, musical, and mathematical audiovisual, and incorporate the introduction to technological instruments (ICT).

Final evaluation

– To evaluate the learning objectives, use the previous operational aims.