2-ESS2-3 lessons
Obtain information to identify where water is found on Earth and that it can be solid or liquid.
The Next Generation Science Standards code 2-ESS2-3 asks students to: “Obtain information to identify where water is found on Earth and that it can be solid or liquid.” These Fieldbook lessons teach it hands-on, with everyday materials, a printable teacher guide and a student sheet.
Winter Science at Home Grades K–5 · partly supports this standard
- Can you make frost in a can? 40 min
Children crush ice, pack it into two cans, add salt to one, and watch water and then frost appear on the outside. They finish able to explain that the water and frost came out of the air, not through the can.
- What's inside a snowflake? 45 min on a snowy day, or 40 min plus overnight without snow
Children catch falling snowflakes on a chilled dark cloth and look at them with a magnifier, or, with no snow, look at freezer frost and grow crystals on a pipe-cleaner snowflake overnight. They finish able to explain that a snowflake is an ice crystal grown from water vapour, and why it has six sides.
NGSS is used as written in Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, so the code 2-ESS2-3 matches there. Other states word and number their own versions: see curriculum alignment for your state's codes.
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