Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Freezing and Phase Change: How Do You Make Ice Cream?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars will be expanding a study of phase changes after experiences with exploration of the three phases of matter. They apply what they have learned through freezing water and create a tasty ice cream treat.
Unit Plan
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: States of Matter: Basics

For Students 3rd - 8th
After watching this simulation, students will be able to describe characteristics of the three states of matter. They will watch as atoms and molecules change between solid, liquid and gas phases.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Exploring States of Matter Gases

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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.
Lesson Plan
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Chapter 1: Solids, Liquids, and Gases

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Five exemplary chemistry lessons about the three states of matter complete with handouts and animations.
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix: Solid, Liquid and Gas

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this interactive you will move the red dot below each flask to observe how particles move in each different phase of water. You will need a sign-in to access this media, but it will be well worth...
Unit Plan
Other

Science4us: States of Matter

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In the States of Matter module, students further explore the concept that anything on earth that has mass and takes up space is matter. This exercise introduces students to solids, liquids and gases, the three most common states of...
Interactive
Other

Science Alive: Melting Point Simulation

For Students 9th - 10th
Percy Julian and Josef Pikl used the fact that melting point-the temperature at which a substance changes from a solid to a liquid-is a characteristic property of a substance to prove that the British chemist Robert Robinson could not...
Handout
Florida State University

Florida State University: Intermolecular Forces: Changes of State

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the changes of state that can occur for the three different types of matter (solids, liquids, and gases) and different types of heat energy that have been defined by scientists.
Unit Plan
Other

Kinetic Molecular Theory [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
This PDF is fill in the blank notes, activities and graphic organizers on kinetic molecular theory.
eBook
University of Notre Dame

Und: Properties of a Pure Substance [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
Often we find that different phases of pure substances can exist in equilibrium with one another. Let us consider an important gedankenexperiment (Latin-German for "thought experiment") in which we boil water. Ordinary water boiling is...