Educational activity based on the short film Punctuwool
6-9 years: Recognize the states of water and their manifestations in various natural phenomena. Understand the concepts of changes in the states of matter, notably freezing, condensation and melting.
9-11 years: Know that the physical state of water depends on external conditions, in particular its temperature.
Punctuwool © Jacob Streilein
TitlePunctuwool
ThemeClimate
Genre & keywordsComic, cloud, rain, sheep, despot
Age (for the film)6-11 years old
Duration4 min 03 s
DirectorJacob Streilein
MusicMichael Paul Kennedy
ProductionCalarts (United States, 2012)
Discover the water cycle and the different states of water in a game based on the world of the film.
In this film, the “cloud sheep” take us on a perilous journey through the water cycle. The viewing will first allow students to identify the different stages of this cycle, including precipitation, storms and the journey of clouds pushed by the wind to the sea... where new clouds will form.
The teacher can take advantage of this discussion time to revisit the students' ideas about the water cycle.
He will then invite them to check and deepen their knowledge of this topic using the cooperative game “Puncutwool”. He can either offer this game as a whole class by projecting the game board onto the whiteboard for example, or create several game teams.
Print the material for this activity (board and game rules)...
He will make sure to explain to them and have them restate the rules and aim of the game before starting to play.
At the end of the game, the class will come together to list what they discovered. These can be noted on a poster and can then be used as hypotheses for carrying out various experiments on the states of water during the following sessions (How can we check that water boils at 100°C? How can we check that condensation is water in a liquid state?).
Activity sheet written by: Emilie de Jeux d'école. Discover the Jeux d'école website...
