E School Today: What Is Matter

Four diagrams of the atom and their subatomic particles and structures are given here and students should be able to complete the labels need to define the structures shown. The main structures defined are protons, neutrons, electrons,...

Determining whether or not something is living can be more difficult than it seems. Put your young scientists to work defining their own criteria to identify life, then work with three samples to see if they are alive or...

Students investigate air by participating in a class experiment. In this matter measurement lesson, students identify air as a gas which consists of mass. Students utilize a windsock or balloon to measure oxygen and explore it's true...

What is matter? Find out in this entertaining video that thoroughly details how matter has both volume and weight, but looks different as a liquid, solid, and gas.

Learn about all the different levels of ecosystems, from the living things under a rock, up to a rainforest biome. Explains the levels of organization within an ecosystem, the different types of biomes, food chains and trophic levels,...

Find out what you can do about global water scarcity and conservation.

Learn about Earth's fresh water supply,

Middle schoolers explore and identify phases of matter and compare the particle motion in solids, liquids, and gasses.

Set sail with Oleif, the Viking. Make his boat move by learning all about matter and particles.

A module to learn about matter including the exploration of mass and volume.