Physical Science Partner Plays about matter, energy, force, and motion

Description

Avoid boring passages and engage your fifth graders in TEKS based physical science with these twelve different partner plays! Each play reinforces scientific concepts of properties of matter, forms of energy, the flow of electricity, forces, and more.

These plays are each two pages long, written for two readers in fifth grade. There is a TEKS alignment included for Fifth Grade Science TEKS. Each play includes a vocabulary sheet to pre-teach vocabulary and a space for students to sketch the meaning of the words as they read. (Answer key with definitions included) Download the preview to see the alignment and vocabulary.

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These are the twelve plays included:

20 Questions: A brother and a sister play 20 questions to guess what’s inside a paper bag, referring to properties of matter. (5.5A) Vocabulary: matter, relative density, magnetic, texture, physical properties, substance, solid, liquid, states of matter, gas

The Science Challenge: Two students participate in a science challenge at school by building a lava lamp to represent relative density (5.5A) Vocabulary words: relative density, sinks, floats, substance, beaker, graduated cylinder

Coffee Cup Catastrophe: A coffee bean and a coffee shop owner test different types of cups to decide which will be the best insulator of thermal energy for their shop (5.5A) Vocabulary words: temperature, conductor, insulator, thermal energy, transfer, observe

Lights Out!: Two particles of energy discuss how energy flows through a circuit while inside a wire in the wall (5.5A) Vocabulary words: electric energy, current, conducting/conductor, transfer, insulator, circuit, switch, source

Mad Scientist’s Lab: A brother and a sister play a game in which they have to separate different types of mixtures (5.5B) Vocabulary words: separate, strainer, ingredients, mixture, solution, water soluble, dissolve, mixture, physical property

When Life Gives You Lemons: Two lemons observe the changes that happen when different ingredients are mixed into solutions (5.5C) Vocabulary words: solution, ingredients, separate, dissolve, observe, solvent, solute, physical properties

At the WonderPark: Two kids identify the different uses of energy at an amusement park (5.6A) Vocabulary words: energy, electrical energy, source, mechanical energy, potential energy, kinetic energy, produce, sound energy, light energy, thermal energy

Tracking Down the Problem: Two kids figure out the reason why elements on an electronic train table don’t work by figuring out what’s wrong with the circuit (5.6B) Vocabulary words: circuit, current, power source, switch, diode, LED, series circuit, parallel circuit

Light Land: Two kids visit an interactive museum about light and describe the way light is traveling at each exhibit. (5.6C) Vocabulary words: light, absorb, shadow, emit, refraction, medium, magnifies, prism, reflection

The Science Squad: Two television show hosts test viewers’ questions about pushes, pulls, and gravity with experiments. (5.6D) Vocabulary words: force, push, pull, gravity, magnetism, friction, variable, constant, trial

A Slippery Slope: Two television show hosts test viewers’ questions about friction with an experiment. (5.6D) Vocabulary words: force, push, pull, gravity, friction, variable, conclusion/conclude, trial, control/constant, data, magnetism, experiment

A Magnetic Personality: Two television show hosts test viewers’ questions about magnetism. (5.6D) Vocabulary words: magnetism, hypothesis, pole, attract, repel, procedure, magnetic field

Each play includes a one-page vocabulary sheet and an answer key, and a teacher tips page for using partner plays in your classroom!