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 solidso 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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Possible Modifications:
- Add in Sublimation or Deposition
Have each group demonstrate all four kinds of changes.

Lesson Review/Checking for Understanding:

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Great work everyone!

Questions:
o Show me how molecules in a solid move.
o How about a liquid? Gas?
How can you use these movements to describe changes in
the states?
Lesson Review/Checking for Understanding:
- Great work everyone!
- Questions:
o Show me how molecules in a solid move.
o How about a liquid? Gas?
- How can you use these movements to describe
changes in the states?
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?