Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Phase Changes
This activity reviews of states of matter, then relates them to atomic movement as it is affected by attractions between atoms and the addition of energy. Latent heat and evaporative cooling are also topics covered. Multiple-choice and...
BBC
Bbc Schools: Changing States of Matter Quiz
Use this quiz to assess your knowledge of the states of matter. Links are provided to increase your screen size, view the quiz in a different format, review the states of matter prior to taking the quiz, and take part in a fun,learning...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Exploring States of Matter Gases
In this series of chemistry labs, students learn about the three states of matter by observing how molecules contract or expand as they change state.
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Heat and States of Matter
Learn how states of matter can change as heat is added to a system.
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: States of Matter
This resource explains the five states of matter and methods of changing from one state to another.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: States of Matter
Change variables in this simulation to see how compression affects different states of matter.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Changing the State of Matter Using Heating and Cooling
In this lesson, young scholars will investigate how different materials changed when heated or cooled. The process in developing the investigation will be inquiry based. Students will have the liberty in choosing the materials and...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Changing Matter:changing Matter: Is Weight the Same or Different?
Students conduct a hands-on investigation to determine how matter, changing state, effects the property of weight. Students will collect data and graph their results. Resources include step by step instructions, a data worksheet, videos...
Starfall
Starfall: All About Matter
This lesson focuses on Matter including the three states of matter, the energy that it takes to change the state of matter, and experiments for children to conduct. Students can choose to have any paragraph read to them.
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Changing States of Matter
Find out how matter can change from one state to another.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Changing State: Evaporation
Students build a model of a water molecule and design an experiment to see if adding energy affects the rate of evaporation.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Changing State: Freezing
Students investigate how low temperature causes water vapor to condense into a liquid and then freeze to form a solid.
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: Science Crossword Puzzles: Matter Changing States [Pdf]
Practice with vocabulary about the changing states of matter by completing this seven-question crossword puzzle.
eSchool Today
E School Today: What Is Matter
Learn about matter, its three states, changes of state, how matter behaves, and physical and chemical changes in matter.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Properties of Matter
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial, students will begin to understand a substance according to its physical properties. Learn to distinguish between extensive and intensive...
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Color Changing Milk
Students observe a molecular dance of bursting colors through exploring states of matter and learning that materials can be characterize by how they respond to water.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Matter
Students will use water and cornstarch to make a mystery matter, and then discuss what happens when different energy is applied.
Chem Tutor
Chem Tutor: States of Matter
A very descriptive site that allows students to understand the different states of matter at the atomic level. Also discusses the process of phase changes and displays phase change graphs. Thermochemistry is also touched upon for high...
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Promethean Planet: States of Matter
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of resources discusses various states of matter.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: States of Matter
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart describes the 3 states of matter and how materials can change through heating and cooling.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Changing State Freezing
Discover how freezing works, when the change of state moves from liquid to solid.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Changing State Melting
Explore the phase change that occurs when ice is melting.