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Properties of Matter

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Middle schoolers participate in a read aloud of a short story about tin from, "The Periodic Table" by Primo Levi. They discuss the physical and chemical properties of tin that are related in the story and then focus on the physical property of density by completing a worksheet using the density formula.

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6th - 8th
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Science
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