Content

Area
(Theme):

Focus Area

Thematic
Questions/
Objectives

Centers

Technology
Integration
(References,
Software and/or
Resources)
Watch a video on
color diffusion in
water that explains
how it happens.

Assesment
and/or Rubric
Scale

Students Products or
Portfolio

Common Core or PA
Standards

Arts
Integration

To learn how
water can be
manipulated to
create a colored
paint.

Put food dye in

water and have
them make pictures
using paint brushes
and paper.

Create pictures
using food dye
in water and
paint brushes or
eye droppers.

Rubric

Students are to create

their own variation of
water dye artwork.

9.3.3.C
Know classification
skills with materials
and
processes used tocreate
works in the arts

Write about an
experience with
water.

Writing the
story
individually
then sharing
with a partner
or the class.

Student Journal
Worksheet

Rubric

Students will recreate a

memory and will have
a finished story.

CC.1.1.1.B
Demonstrate
understanding of the
organization and basic
features of print.
Recognize the
distinguishing features
of a sentence.

Count how many

drops of water you
can fit onto a penny
and measure water
with measuring
cups.

Watch and
count as a class
while teacher
drops water
onto the penny.

Create a worksheet on
counting the drops.

Rubric

Students will present a

completed worksheet
on how they counted
the drops of water.

CC.2.2.2.A.2
Use mental strategies to
add and subtract within
20.

See what items sink

or float.

Make a
prediction and
then watch as a
class while

Watch a video on the

density of water.

Rubric

Students will present a

worksheet on their
predictions and the
correct items that

3.3.K.A4
Identify sources of
water for human
consumption and use.

What happens if
you put too
much dye in the
water?
Not enough dye?
Language
Arts

Practice writing.
How did you feel
when rewriting
your experience?

Mathematic
s

Practice counting
to high numbers.
Discover how
water can be
manipulated to
fit onto an
object.

Science

Did you guess

right what items
sank or floated?

Ex: swimming in a
pool or ocean.

Watch a video on how

the drops stay on the
penny.

Create a worksheet on

Social
Studies

Talk about
waters density
and how the
items sink or
float on the
water.
Learn about how
water can flood
areas.
Discover floods
from the past
that have had
great impact.

History of floods.

teacher places
items on water.

the items that will be

tested.

Read from
article about
floods and learn
about past
floods.

Read from article or

look through a text
book to find stories on
past floods that have
affected many.

floated and sank.

Rubric

Students will know

some history on floods
and understand how
floods happen.

8.4.2.D
Identify global issues
that require cooperation
among nations.