Identifying Materials Based On Their Properties
Students will identify materials based on their properties!
Lab Two: Is it water-soluble?
Lab Three: Planning an Investigation
Lab Four: Does Weight of Matter Change?
Here is a fun activity to go with 5th grade standards. From the Disciplinary Core Idea: Matter and Its Interactions and Properties of Matter
Because we are dealing with 5th graders and mystery substances, this is a good time to review lab safety.
- Do not ingest anything.
- Do not inhale directly, instead waft the scent to you and inhale only a tiny sniff.
- Wear goggles.
Students love a good mystery! In this case, using mystery powders or liquids will give students a way to apply their understanding of the properties of matter to a real-world problem. In this lesson, students explore the physical and chemical properties of matter through four investigations with the objective of using properties of matter to identify different types of matter.
While students conduct this investigation to produce data to serve as the basis for evidence that meets the goals of the investigation. Throughout this process, students explore how properties of matter are related to the structure of matter and that structures can be designed to serve particular functions by taking into account the properties of different materials, and how materials can be shaped and used.

Misty B.
September 25, 2019
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