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Showing posts with label matter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label matter. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

What's the Matter? Oobleck!

Oh learning about matter is so much fun! And, it's a hot mess, too!  Between melting crayons and creating this solid-ish, liquid-ish goo we have certainly gotten down and messy with learning - but that's the fun of it , too!



Today we learned that liquids don't always act like liquid. I bet the kids went home talking about this one!





If anyone wants to try it, it is definitely a memorable experiment and Scientific American has great info on it. Click here to see what they have for you to try at home...

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Changing States of Matter

We have been learning about matter and all about the characteristics of solids, liquids and gases. Today, we learned about the changing states of matter. 


We learned that matter can change but, the students went bananas when they could SEE that heat is an energy that can change matter!