In our science unit, we are
learning about states of matter this month.
First, we learnt about how matters are classified as solid, liquid and
gas.
After a small explanation, examples
and this video I asked my little one to help me to make a states of matter
tray. My little one collected objects as samples for the three states.
While collecting the samples, she was
repeatedly complaining that most of the matters were in solid states and liquid
states and she hardly found matters in gaseous states.
She brought the shampoo bottle, hair oil and
her body lotion for liquid states. She asked me to pour some milk and cooking
oil to keep it in the tray.
First, I asked her to blow a
balloon to keep under the heading ‘gas’. Then, we decided to keep a ‘bubble’.
Next, we demonstrated how the
matters change their states according to temperature. I kept some coconut oil
and water in the freezer to show how the matters freeze at low temperatures.
Then, we took the frozen ice and coconut oil, chocolate and some wax and put it
in the gas top to show how they melt when the temperature increases. We also
boiled a little water to show the evaporation.
Our third demonstration is the ‘rain
in the jar’ what we already did during our
weather unit study.
It’s a cool experiment that incorporates all
the three states.
But, still I haven’t yet
introduced the word ‘molecules’ and l thought
of explaining it in phase II.
