Students will investigate what constitutes a solid and a liquid state of matter. Using the probe, students' misconceptions on states of matter will be exposed. The lab, which uses a cornstarch, water and food coloring mixture, will be explored. The students will determine how that exploration will take place and devise a procedure to determine the state of matter. Students will then, as a group, present their findings to the class. After all the groups have presented their findings, the groups with the same findings will combine and defend their findings to the other group(s) until the class, as a whole, has reached a consensus.

This activity is a lab where students will be working with chemical changes and reactions. It's a simple activity that can be done with household items.

This lab is a two part investigation on separating a solid from a liquid where students are asked to develop their own investigable question and carry out the experiment on day two.

This activity is a hands-on activity where students learn about polymers and the science of plastics, while making shrinky dinks.

This guided inquiry lesson allows students to make explore with materials and draw conclusions if they are a solid or liquid.

This activity is a classroom activity where the students move through learning stations to explore the properties of solids and liquids.

This activity is an investigation where students explore the properties of color and light, using mixtures of common everyday materials.

This activity is used to introduce the different properties of states of matter, by testing an unknown substance with household materials to determine which state of matter most closely resembles the material. It also can invole data collection, reasoning, grph making, and presentation of findings.

This activity is a lab investigation where students observe the four states of matter. At the end of the investigation students should be able to know that the differences among the physical states depend on the distance between the atoms or molecules and on the rate of movement of the atoms or molecules. And, that pressure and temperature control these two factors.

This is a classroom activity in which students explore solids, liquids, and gases, and their properties. This provides hands on experience for all students.

This activity investigates water when it freezes and how other solid items sink or float in water.

This activity is an in-class experiment where students predict, observe, and summarize what will happen when ice melts in a cup of water.