Science Prop Box!

I wanted to give people viewing a chance to take a look at one of my first prop boxes I have created. The box is a themed science box that deals with different types of texture. The idea behind the box is that it is a comprised materials box that children can open up and immediately understand the task they are supposed to perform and conceptualize the content in which the box is suppose to help them understand. My box that I created was an activity in which students organized different items into five categories of texture. In order to aid them in this process they will have a multitude of resources and tools so that they can understand the classifying of the objects. Some objects could go in more than one category of texture causing students to really analyze the texture of items when classifying. Anything that creates a higher order of thinking is always a good thing!

This is what the box looks like with everything packaged inside. It is small and can be easily moved so it can be stored anywhere in the classroom. It is really a child friendly size!

Inside the box children are given a number of resources to help them classify the items. These are four books at different levels that relate to some form of texture. Two are non-fiction and two are fiction.

This is another resource that can be used to help the children classify the forms of texture. On the left are hands that have examples of each type of texture on each finger. On the right is a "texture table" in which each form of texture the students are classifying is defined.

This is an example of some of the small items children would be classifying in different texture groups. I stored them in small plastic Tupperware containers.

This is the finished product! Students use their resources and sort the items in different texture categories.