States of Matter- and How They

Change!

Teacher: Terri Conway

School: MSU Elementary

Date: 6/25/15
Class: KIN 355 3rd Grade
Equipment: handouts with different scenerios of
Time: 8:30 am
changes in matter.
Term: Summer
Targeted NASPE Standard(s): NASPE Standards 1, 2, 4, 5, 6

Specific Objective: By the end of this lesson, the students will be able to
demonstrate the ability to correctly identify the way molecules move in a solid,
liquid and gas and demonstrate how they change from one state to another.
Concomitant Objective: The students will stay physically active.
Time
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30
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3
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Procedures Followed
Warm Up: NONE NEEDED

Transition:
- Students sitting in their seats to begin.
Set Induction:
- How many of you have ever eaten a Popsicle
before? How about on a hot day? What happened
to the Popsicle? It melted! That is called a change
in matter.
Learnable Piece:
- Today we are going to learn how to represent
what is happening to the states of matter, solid
liquids and gases, when they change.
- Lets review what is matter?
o Matter is anything that takes up space, and
has mass!
o It cannot be created or destroyed.
o Matter is found in three forms- solid, liquid
and gas.
- Alright, can I have everyone hold up their fist.
Your fist today is going to represent a molecule!
- Solids
o Have a defined shape.
o The molecules are tightly packed together,
there is very little room for wiggling- and
molecules like to wiggle!
o Take your two molecules (two fists) and
stick them together and wiggle. This is a
solid!
o Thumbs up if you understand!

Materials

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Liquids
o Take the shape of their container.
o The molecules in a liquid slide past each
other, they have more room to wiggle!
o Take your two molecules, and slide them
past each other.
Gas
o Take no shape.
o Molecules in a gas are wild! They move
very fast in all directions!
o Now stand up and move an arms length
away from the person next to you, take
your molecules and move them around
quickly up in the air! This is a gas!
Now we are going to take what we know about
these states of matter and you are going to be
given a scenario and you will have to show me
with your bodies what happens when a state
changes!

Transition:
- Now, Im going to put you into four groups and
give you a piece of paper. On your piece of paper
there is a scenario describing melting, freezing,
evaporation or condensation.
Guided Activity Time with Corrective Feedback:
- With your group, you will identify which one it is
and together with your bodies being a molecule,
how you can represent the two different states
that occur.
- We can do an example. Looking back at the
Popsicle we were talking about earlier, it started
out as a solid- so the molecules were wiggling
close to each other. When it was in the sun it
melted, so the molecules are now in a liquid
moving past each other.
CHECKING FOR UNDERSTANDING:
As a group, what will you do first?
Then?
- What are you going to use to represent a
molecule?

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Diagram:

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students

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Notes:

Possible Modifications:
- Add in Sublimation or Deposition
- Have each group demonstrate all four kinds of
changes.
Lesson Review/Checking for Understanding:
- Great work everyone!
- Questions:
o Show me how molecules in a solid move.
o How about a liquid? Gas?
o How can you use these movements to
describe changes in the states?

It rained and puddles were all over the ground. When the
sun came out, the puddles were gone. What is this change
in matter?

You wake up in the morning and there is dew on the grass

outside your house. The air cooled down at night so it
formed water on the grass. What is this change in matter?

It is springtime, and all the snow around begins to turn

into puddles on the ground. What is this change in matter?

During the winter you left your water bottle outside in

your car. The next day it was frozen solid. What is this
change in matter?