This is a series of activities demonstrating that air has mass, takes up space, and can exert a force on objects enough to lift them.

This is an inquiry activity that relies of pervious understanding of balancing and weighing to introduce a properties of air.

This investigation will have students testing how heating and cooling can change the state of matter. They will test a variety of materials determine whether a change takes place through heating/cooling.

This activity provides students with the opportunity to gather data from a controlled experiment setting, interpret their findings and use the data to draw conclusions to solve a mystery.

Students will compare ingredients in two different pancake recipes, then taste the difference. We will talk about the chemical reaction that happened when the recipes are mixed and why there are bubbles in the pancakes.

This activity is a classroom lab where students observe and classify chemical and physical changes using the five characteristics of a chemical change, interpret their findings, and use evidence to support their findings.

Students develop and conduct an experiment using the law of conservation of mass to determine whether or not gum should be considered food. Students will compare the mass swallowed for sugar and sugar-free gum. This could be used to discuss solubility.

This activity is a guided inquiry where students will investigate if water molecules have any space between them.

A lesson on states of matter using marbles for molecules expands into 3 more lessons elaborating on properties of a gas.

This activity is a classroom lab activity that demonstrates chemical change in a dramatic way using a few inexpensive, easily obtainable materials.

In this activity students explore and identify chemical and physical changes by observing a variety of changes in matter in lab stations and through the making of butter and pancakes.

This experiment is a lab activity in which students will learn how different liquids react when put together.

This activity is a classroom lab in which students investigate and observe three types of balloons to help identify the states of matter and their properties.

The students will be able to define solids and liquids from their prior knowledge. The students will be able to verbalize the differences between solids and liquids? Observe, communicate and question when things aren't what they appear to be. Is Oobleck a solid or liquid? The answer is that it is both. Have the students come up with their own answers and to communicate their findings. The students will understand the difference between a non-Newtonian fluid and a liquid or a solid.

This activity is a mini-lab where students determine a procedure they might use to prove that air is matter.

This activity is an inquiry lesson where students investigate solids, liquids, and gases through a variety of hands on experiments tied into writing and illustration of observable results.

This is a guided inquiry investigation for students to determine the state of matter of a mystery material and to make potential real world applications/products for the mystery material.

This activity is an investigation of a "mystery material" where students have to determine whether the substance is a solid or a liquid. This activity can be done as part of an earth science or chemistry lesson.

In this classroom guided inquiry lesson, students will complete a serious of tests using five different mystery powders. Student will develop hypotheses, make observations, and draw conclusions about what each powder is and the physical and chemical reactions that occur when heat, water, iodine, and vinegar are added to each substance.

This is an art project where oil paints and water is used. Students will have already explored the densities of oil and water.