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Howto smile.org: From Gas to Liquid to Solid
Allow your students to explore states of matter as they learn what causes frost to form on the outside of a cold container. Students will observe how liquid water can change to ice or water vapor in this lab. Lesson includes background...
McREL International
Mc Rel International: Timss 2007 Released Items: Science Fourth Grade [Pdf]
A released question from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) assessment about change of states of matter. Also included is a scoring guide for the released question.
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Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers: Science Ideas
A great resource to discover fun new activities to use in your classroom. Activities are age-appropriate, and span several science topics.
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Science4 Us: Changes in Matter
Through an instructional video, games, and activities, students explore three types of change matter makes: physical change, in which only the shape of the matter changes; physical phase change in which matter changes to a different form...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Is Fire a Solid, a Liquid, or a Gas?
Elizabeth Cox illuminates the science behind fire.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Solids and Liquids Stations
A description of a instructional activity 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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Teacher's Guide: Kitchen Chemistry
Learn about kitchen chemistry alongside Ruff Ruffman. Learners can use the videos, games, and activities from The Ruff Ruffman Show to discover how by investigating solids and liquids and exploring heating and cooling, science can help...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: North Sea: Denmark: What Happens When Materials Are Heated or Cooled?
Did you know that water has different states? Learn all about it with Boris in Copenhagen.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Norway: What Is Matter Made Of?
Set sail with Oleif, the Viking. Make his boat move by learning all about matter and particles.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Matter: Periodic Table
A video and a short quiz on the periodic table of elements and how it is organized.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: States of Matter Fitness Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students use their science knowledge and apply it using physical activity! Learning about the stages of matter, solid, liquid and gas, students perform an exercise for each as the teacher calls out an object such as soup...
Crescent Public Schools
The Internet Science Room: The Kinetic Theory & Phase Change
This tutorial helps students understand the Kinetic Theory, which explains the effects of temperature and pressure on matter as it goes through phase changes.
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King's Centre for Visualization in Science: Scientific Models
A series of interactive applets use scientific models to teach some basic concepts of matter, including states of matter and physical and chemical changes.
The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science: Ms Ps1 1: Atomic Composition Model
A collection of lesson plans for helping young scholars understand atomic composition. Site uses work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos to plan lessons to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Three States of Matter
In this Physical Science exploration activity, pupils 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 in...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Fluids
In this interactive module you will be introduced to a unit on fluid dynamics. Learn how an object's density relates to its mass and volume by completing various activities and interactives.
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Science Quizzes: States of Matter Quiz
A ten-question quiz to check knowledge about states of matter.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: States of Matter [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will move and generate choreography to understand different states of matter.
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: La Materia
In this site you can learn and experiment with matter properties and change in behavior. Every theoretical explanation is accompanied by an animation. You will be able to aply the theory to real experiments.
Success Link
Success Link: Dry Ice Lab/demonstration How Cool It Is!
A lesson plan using dry ice to show the four states of matter. Included are inquiry-based questions to use as part of the demonstration.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Biology: Specific Heat, Heat of Vaporization, and Density of Water
Why does ice float? In this article answer that question by learning about the topics of Specific heat capacity, evaporative cooling, and heat of vaporization of water.