Tuesday – What is Matter?

Content Objective
Students will demonstrate comprehension of what matter is and what matter is not by completing a t-chart.

Language Objective
Students will write a short paragraph describing what matter is and what is not matter and include examples.

In class we had a discussion about what is matter and what is not matter. As a class we created definitions of each and made a t-chart to organize examples of each.  The assignment was to complete the following sentence frames.

“Examples of matter include ___, ___ and ___ because they all __________________.”

“Things that are not matter include ___, ___ and ___ because they all __________________.”