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Unit 33 presented a basic formula for facilitating science investigations: the teacher poses a question, listens to hypothesis or predictions, allows students to investigate and collect data, listens to the data from the class and records it for the class to see. Then the teacher facilitates a discussion to compare the data with the original hypotheses. 

Your assignment is to choose and objective relevant to primary grades science. You should use a state standard just as you did for assignment 1. Then use the same lesson plan outline that you did for assignment 1 (see the table below) to create an inquiry based science lesson.

For this assignment, instead of an initial activity you will start your lesson with a “motivating question” which should be a question that will be posed for the students to form hypothesis about? For the extension of the lesson instead of activities, I would like you to come up with at least two well thought out questions that you could ask your students that may require further investigations to take place. These questions could be what if questions about changing a variable.

Concept: This is stated in complete sentence(s) and is appropriate for a primary classroom.
Objective/ Standard: This states a specific state standard. 

Materials: Lists all materials needed for the investigation.

Advanced Preparation: This includes all tasks that must be completed by the teacher before the lesson.
Procedure: ------------------see below----------------------------------------
motivating question This is the question that you will pose for your students to form hypothesis about.
how to do it This section provides an overview of the activity that you will have the students do to conduct research. 
Evaluation: 
State at least 2 questions that you as the teacher will ask yourself to determine if your students are working and learning, and not just playing
Extension: Includes two questions that you will ask at the end of this investigation that may lead to further investigations? These may be what if questions.