Educational activity around 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 solidification, condensation and fusion.
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 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 universe 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 update the students' representations of the water cycle.
He will then invite them to check and deepen their knowledge on this theme thanks to the cooperative game “Puncutwool”. He can either offer this game as a whole class by projecting the game board onto the board 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 rephrase the rule and the goal of the game before starting to play.
At the end of the game, a time for sharing will be held to list the discoveries made. 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°? How can we check that the mist is water in a liquid state?).
Activity sheet written by: Emilie de Jeux d'école. Discover the School Games website...
