ClassFlow
Class Flow: States of Matter Venn Diagram
[Free Registration/Login Required] States of Matter: Venn Diagram for Solids, Liquids, and Gases.
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Class Flow: States of Matter
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart describes the 3 states of matter and how materials can change through heating and cooling.
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Class Flow: Promethean Planet: States of Matter
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of resources discusses various states of matter.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Matter
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipcharts explains the basics of matter. Opportunities for student involvement include measuring solids, identifying matter, and a sorting activity.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: States of Matter
A comprehensive lesson plan site that contains a number of activities to aid in teaching about the states and properties of matter and the difference between a physical and chemical change.
Purdue University
Purdue Univ: Gases, Liquids, and Solids
This site has a brief description of the differences in particles in a gas, liquid, and solid. Animated microscopic pictures demonstrate the molecular movement in each state. Information is then summarized in an easy-to-read chart.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Kinetic Energy and States of Matter: Lesson 1
This lesson will compare the relative kinetic energy possessed by molecules in different states. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Kinetic Energy and States of Matter."
Read Works
Read Works: Mix the Old With the New
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how cooking causes changes in matter. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Teacher's Guide: Kitchen Chemistry
Learn about kitchen chemistry alongside Ruff Ruffman. Students can use the videos, games, and activities from The Ruff Ruffman Show to discover how by investigating solids and liquids and exploring heating and cooling, science can help...
Read Works
Read Works: Matter Is Everywhere!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about mass and its properties. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Matter Review
[Free Registration/Login Required] Review the three forms of matter with this flipchart. This could also be used for a pre-assessment before a unit on matter.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Solids and Liquids Stations
A description of a lesson where students navigate through twelve stations on solids and liquids and record their observations in a booklet. The station topics are listed, but the recording booklet materials were purchased from...
Other
Homewood City Schools: Classification of Matter
This Homewood City Schools site has an outline form and contains lots of information about the classification and composition of matter. Some of the topics covered are matter and temperature, changes in state, composition of matter, and...
Chem Tutor
Chem Tutor: States of Matter
A very descriptive site that allows students to understand the different states of matter at the atomic level. Also discusses the process of phase changes and displays phase change graphs. Thermochemistry is also touched upon for high...
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Science Quizzes: States of Matter Quiz
A ten-question quiz to check knowledge about states of matter.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: States of Matter Quiz
[Free Registration/Login Required] States of Matter Quiz - 10 questions Florida Standard: SC.A.1.2.1
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Howto smile.org: From Gas to Liquid to Solid
Allow your learners to explore states of matter as they learn what causes frost to form on the outside of a cold container. Students will observe how liquid water can change to ice or water vapor in this lab. Lesson includes background...
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Changing State: Freezing
Students investigate how low temperature causes water vapor to condense into a liquid and then freeze to form a solid.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Changing State: Melting
Discover the concept that energy transfer and molecular motion cause the change in state from a solid to a liquid. Also compare state changes of water to the state changes of other substances.
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Tie Dye Paper
Learners characterize materials by their state of matter and then combined materials to create a piece of colorful, tie dye-esque paper.
University of Oxford (UK)
University of Oxford: A View From a Distant Universe
An eBook containing information regarding states of matter as it applies to celestial bodies and a universe.
Curated OER
Matter
A brief site which defines solids, liquids and gases along with a drawing of each.
New York University
New York University: States of Water
Use this resource to learn about the three different phases of water; solid, liquid, and gas. What happens to water as it changes into a solid or gas? Includes short and easy to do activity.
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Densities of Substances and Materials
As part of a larger site called "Getting started in Chemistry," this site examines various topics related to the densities of substances and materials. Included in the study are properties of solids, liquids and gases, and how density is...