You know that water can exist in three separate phases: solid (ice), liquid (water), and vapor (steam). To change from one phase to another, you simply add (or remove) heat. When water boils, what happens to molecules (for example sugar...

What is a colloid? If you have made Oobleck out of corn starch and water, then you know that a colloid is a mixture that acts like a solid and a liquid at the same time. This activity helps you determine the critical factors that...

In Beautiful Chemistry, we talk about crystals, quasicrystals and glasses, which are all solids. Here, we see the molecular structure of gases and liquids.

Learn what a Buchner funnel is, how it works to filter solids from liquids, and some of its applications.

Students are given a variety of materials and asked to identify if each material as a solid, liquid or gas. They use their five senses - sight, sound, smell, texture and taste - to identify the other characteristics of each item.

This tutorial helps students understand the Kinetic Theory, which explains the effects of temperature and pressure on matter as it goes through phase changes.

A collection of lesson plans for helping students understand atomic composition. Site uses work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos to plan lessons to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules.

Kid's learn about the science of states of matter. Solids, liquids, gases, and even plasma.

A simple lab experiment for students to find the density of two solids and a liquid (does not use water displacement). Note that number 1d should not state "weighs" since mass is being found.

Science experiment that demonstrates the four states or phases of matter: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of how you change water from a liquid state to a gaseous...