Children investigate what happens when safe classroom objects enter water, using the essential question, “What happens when we place different objects in water and use words to tell what we see?” Across eight hands-on sessions, they predict, test, and describe results with words such as sink, float, wet, dry, big, small, and weight, then represent discoveries through collages, stamps, drawings, photos, labels, and small art books. Children collaborate, respond to open-ended peer and teacher feedback, revise one part of their artwork, and reflect with picture sorts, sentence frames, and a shared mural. With support from a local art partner, they curate a discovery wall, mural, books, and labeled test displays for a Float and Sink Family Art Walk, explaining what they observed and why their work should be saved or displayed.

Students will predict, test, and describe what happens when safe classroom objects enter water using the words sink, float, wet, dry, big, small, and weight. They will use picture cards, real objects, and sentence frames to communicate observations, listen to peers, and answer open-ended questions. Students will use varied art tools to create and revise collages, stamps, books, or murals that tell what happened to familiar objects in water. They will collaborate, reflect on their learning and feelings, and explain why their artwork is saved and displayed during a family art walk.

Children will create object-test pages for personal water-science art books, pairing drawings or photos with spoken sentences using float, sink, wet, and dry. They will make collages and stamped artwork, then combine selected pieces into a collaborative floating-and-sinking mural and reflection wall. Labeled test trays or display boards will connect safe objects, matching artwork, and photo evidence from each investigation. These products will form a class discovery wall for the Float and Sink Family Art Walk, where children explain what happened and why their work was saved and displayed.

Begin with a Mystery Water Table, revealing safe classroom objects for children to place in water and describe as float, sink, wet, or dry. Next, children explore a surprise basket, choose an object, and predict what will happen before the group tests it together. In a Water Word Circle, use real objects, picture cards, and frames such as “I think it will ___” and “I noticed ___” to support sharing. End by asking, “What happens when we place different objects in water and use words to tell what we see?”

Host a Float and Sink Family Art Walk for families, a neighborhood art teacher, and community guests. Display the collaborative mural, discovery wall, water-science books, labeled test trays, object photos, and collages in classroom gallery spaces chosen by the children. Children guide visitors, point to evidence, and use words such as float, sink, wet, dry, big, small, and weight to describe their discoveries. End by inviting each child to choose which artwork to save, take home, or keep on display and share why.