CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemistry for High School
This digital textbook covers core chemistry concepts and includes interactive features, real-world examples, and videos.
ABCya
Ab Cya: States of Matter
States of Matter is an educational activity for kids to learn about the different properties of matter. The lesson will introduce solids, liquids, and gases. Students will then be assessed through a sorting activity where they will...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Phases of Matter: Interactive Lesson
Learn about the three phases of matter, and how the addition and removal of thermal energy (also known as heat) affects them.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: How to Harvest Water From Fog
In this activity, you will learn about a creative way to collect water from the air.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Adding Heat
Observe the changes in the states of matter and volume when a balloon-covered flask with water in it is heated.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Be One With the Water [Pdf]
Fourth graders will explore states of matter and the water cycle by bringing water to life with their bodies. By enacting the changes that water molecules experience, 4th graders will learn scientific information kinesthetically.
Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tar Heel Reader: Forms of Water
Find out how water can exist in the three different pahses of matter.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: Phases of Nuclear Matter
A brief exploration of the states or phases of nuclear matter.
New York University
New York University: What Is Matter?
At this resource discover the difference between solids, liquids, and gases. Practice what you just learned with included review questions.
New York University
New York University: States of Water
Use this resource to learn about the three different phases of water; solid, liquid, and gas. What happens to water as it changes into a solid or gas? Includes short and easy to do activity.
University of Chicago
Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica: Don't Be Too Flaky
After reading some facts about the properties of water, students conduct experiments to measure the relative densities of water, ice and snow and submit the results to the website.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: As a "Matter" of Fact
In this lesson plan site, students will define matter and compare properties of solids, liquids and gases.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Somethin' Sweet
This site provides a lesson plan using candy making to demonstrate physical and chemical changes in matter. Includes directions to make caramel and rock candy.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Tempting Temperatures
In this lesson plan students learn how to use a thermometer and compare changes in temperature using water in the fridge and water in the freezer. Helps students create charts to analyze data.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: States of Matter
In this activity, students investigate physical and chemical changes in the states of matter for water. They collect data and record their observations.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: What Is the Matter?
Young scholars will examine a solid, a liquid, and a gas to gather information and draw conclusions about the three states of matter.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Solids and Liquids Stations
A description of a lesson where students navigate through twelve stations on solids and liquids and record their observations in a booklet. The station topics are listed, but the recording booklet materials were purchased from...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Three States of Matter
In this Physical Science exploration activity, students explore the meaning of the words solid, liquid, and gas. Student groups complete a chart with examples of each type of matter and its properties and then record their observations...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: States of Matter: Which Will Propel the Balloon?
For this activity, learners take part in a simulation of the three states of matter where they role play being molecules. They then create simple balloon rockets and must explain why a gas is the only state of matter that can cause the...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: State of Matter of an Unknown Material
For this activity, students are given a 'mysterious substance' made of cornstarch and water, and they must test it using common materials such as vinegar or water, to see if they can determine whether it is a solid, liquid, or gas. Their...
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Collecting Gases Over Water
The General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, or Chem 1, is broken into several sections covering various aspects of topics related to chemistry. This section deals with several states of matter, and specifically the relation between gas and...
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Science Quizzes: States of Matter Quiz
A ten-question quiz to check knowledge about states of matter.
abcteach
Abcteach: Experiments
[Free Registration/Login Required] Elementary students learning to do experiments will be able to use these ready-made worksheets for gathering data on evaporation, melting ice and others.
Museum of Science
The Atom's Family: Phases of Matter
Help the Phantom choose a material and observe the changes at different temperatures in the molecule chamber. What happens to the elements or molecules as the temperature changes?