Format
This is a 'virtual assembly', and we can have hundreds of participants connected! We DO have a few rules about how we handle our connections:
• If your students are joining us from your classroom computer, please arrange your room and projection screen so everyone can see us clearly.
• If you and your students are joining us from your homes, we will have an educator monitoring the Chat feature for questions. We request that you or another staff person serve as a Co-Host to help monitor students for any inappropriate Chat or camera behavior.
• If you will have a hybrid class (some at school, some joining from home), our educator will monitor the Chat and camera behavior, and we reserve the right to temporarily move any disruptive students to our Waiting Room so we or school staff can correct the undesired behavior.
• If you prefer, we can turn off all cameras and interact solely via the Chat feature.
Objectives
• Identify the properties of solids, liquids and gases.
• Observe how these properties change as a substance undergoes a change in state.
• Describe the relationship between temperature and states of matter.
• Discover that science is FUN and how understanding scientific principles helps us to tackle everyday challenges, and how research at a museum involves an understanding of the states of matter
• Define scientific concepts including gravity, air pressure, and the Bernoulli Effect, and describe how they affect our daily lives
Standards Alignment
State Standards
OHIO ACADEMIC SCIENCE STANDARDS
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.
Grade 6: Physical Science – Matter and Motion
• All matter is made up of small particles called atoms.
• Each atom takes up space, has mass and is in constant motion. Mass is the amount of matter in an object.
• When substances undergo changes of state, neither atoms nor molecules themselves are changed in structure.
• Thermal energy is a measure of the motion of the atoms and molecules in a substance.