Students combine science into art to explore how water freezes, melts, and evaporates in creative ways. The project develops creativity by challenging children to find expressive movements that represent tiny particles in different states of matter. Children improve their critical thinking as they analyze real-life photos and decide how to accurately translate scientific concepts into physical actions. Teamwork and problem-solving grow as small groups collaborate to choreograph and perform their own unique “movement stories” about phase transitions. This movement-based approach sparks a curiosity and sense of wonder, helping students understand and remember complex natural phenomena through active, hands-on play.
SPIRIT Skill Focus
- problem-solving;
- curiosity, sense of wonder and openness;
- critical thinking;
- creativity
Basic Information Sheet
| Age group | Student number | Duration | Number of stages | Subjects connection and relevance |
| 3th grade students | Whole class (max. 30 students) | 240 minutes | 3 stages | Natural Sciences, Expressive Arts: Movement |
This is a four-hour activity for children aged 9–10 that combines knowledge about the aggregation states and phase transitions with movement. In the first part, the students explore various movements: Freezing / becoming stiff, shrinking, elongating etc. Next, they learn about the aggregation states and phase transition. In the final part of the lesson, the students have to express these concepts through movement. loud and soft sounds.
National curriculum Link and Objectives
- Art Objective:
- When moving, consciously make use of the space they or others occupy.
- Recognize, imitate, and describe the energy in a movement: explosive or controlled. For example: moving like a raindrop on a window as it makes its way down (controlled)
- Science Objective: To describe some natural phenomena related to temperature: expansion and contraction, melting and solidification, evaporation and condensation.
- Cross-disciplinary Objective: The students can transform a certain concept of phase transitions into a movement story