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“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of, who do the things no one can imagine.” - Alan Turing
STATES OF MATTER
DAY 1
WARM-UP (7 MIN)
In your notebook, always include the date, the lesson title, and do the warm-up task associated to that date.
Task: *Complete the Musical Warm-Up: "What is that?"*
WARM-UP DISCUSSION (3 MIN)
What state of matter is most useful to humans?
LAB: *IDENTIFYING STATES OF MATTER* (20 MIN)
In your notebook, always include the date, the lesson title, and do the warm-up task associated to that date. FOR LABS, IF NO SHEET IS PROVIDED, YOU MUST RECORD STEP TITLES AND YOUR ANSWERS IN YOUR SCIENCE NOTEBOOK
Purpose: To have a full understanding of the states of matter and the descriptive words around them.
Materials: Objects and demonstrations that exhibit the vocabulary in the notes. Examples can include balloons, ice, quartz, salt, honey, paper clips
Procedure:
STEP 1: Prepare your lab notebooks by numbering the next 8 rows, 1-8. Those who write big might want to skip a row for each number.
STEP 2: As your teacher holds an object up in the air, your job is to figure out which vocabulary word your teacher is trying to demonstrate. After all 8 words are demonstrated, prepare yourself for the next level of acting.
STEP 3: Now it's your turn to demonstrate. Your group has 5 minutes to figure out how you can act out your assigned vocabulary word. No props allowed!
STEP 4: YOU MAY ONLY SAY 3 WORDS AS A GROUP during the demonstration. THEY CAN'T BE YOUR ASSIGNED WORD. The other groups need to write those words and guess which word your group is demonstrating.
THE NOTES: DAY 1 VOCABULARY (10 MIN)
*Write these down in your notebooks!*
Solid - a solid has a definite shape and a definite volume
Crystalline Solids - solids that are made of crystals
Amorphous - the particles are not arranged in a regular pattern
Liquid - a liquid has a definite volume but no shape of its own
Fluid - another word for liquid, a substance that flows
Surface Tension- the result of an inward pull among the molecules of a liquid that brings the molecules on the surface closer together.
Viscosity - a liquid’s resistance to flowing
Gas - a gas is fluid, however a gas can change volume very easily
KEY CONCEPT - Because its particles are free to move. A liquid has no definite shape. However, it does have a definite volume.
KEY CONCEPT - As they move, gas particles spread apart, filling all the space available. Thus, a gas has neither definite shape nor definite volume.
EVALUATION (7 MIN)
We'll wrap it up here with today's assessment in your learning management system. Feel free to study your notes and/or the videos below. We always recommend viewing the videos the night before the lesson.