Matter

Our anchor charts always start out looking so empty...they don't stay that way!

 (Ha!  This year, I used dish soap with NO scent!)

 Dish Soap

 Flour

 Rice (using my new sweet lens!)

In our first lesson, we defined matter as a class.  After discussing what we thought it was, we sought help from our Student Reference Book.  They later defined it to mean:  Anything that takes up space and has mass.  Goals:  Classify materials as a solid, liquid or a gas.  Recognize that solids, liquids, and gases are forms of matter.  Create a definition of matter. 

On Tuesday, we did a lesson that would ask them to Discover properties of matter in their groups.  Lesson goals:  Explore and compare samples of solids, liquids, and gases.  Describe the properties of solids, liquids, and gases. 

Day 1:  Investigate our balloons with our group members.  What’s inside the balloons?  Why do you think so?  Is it a solid?  Liquid?  Gas?  Why do I think so? 

Day 2:  Open ‘em up!  Were we right?  We continue to observe what’s in our balloons, this time, we get to see if our educated guesses were correct.  (This part is so fun, the squeals of delight are awesome!)

 This is what we found:  rice, water, air, flour, and dish soap.

Vocabulary Words

Material, matter, gas, investigation, liquid, observation, observe, powder, procedure, property, solid and state