Format
1. The first step of this program is making sure that your "Table of Science" is ready and easy to clean up.
2. Introduction of key vocabulary terms.
3. Students demonstrate the action of molecules in solids, liquids, and gases.
4. Teacher assists student volunteers to carry out several hands-on activities involving ice, water, sand, balloons, and other items as the Museum Educator gives instructions.
5. At the end of each activity, students all review the molecular action of that particular state of matter.
6. Time is allowed for questions and answers.
Objectives
Students will:
Identify the properties of solids, liquids and gases.
Observe how these properties change as a substance undergoes a change in state.
Understand the relationship between temperature and states of matter.
Compare the motion of molecules within different states of matter.
Relate changes of state to aspects of their daily life.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
See Ohio Academic Content Standards below.
State Standards
Ohio
Science
Grade 1 Science: Physical Science-Motion and Materials
•Properties of objects and materials can change.
Grade 2 Science: Earth and Space Science-The Atmosphere
•The atmosphere is made up of air.
•Water is present in the air.
Grade 3 Science: Physical Science-Matter and Forms of Energy
•All objects and substances in the natural world are composed of matter.
•Matter exists in different states, each of which has different properties.
Grade 4: Physical Science-Electricity, Heat and Matter
•The total amount of matter is conserved when it undergoes a change.