Changes Caused by Heating and Cooling
TEKS Objective
Students will compare changes in materials caused by heating and cooling.
Essential Understanding
The student knows that matter has physical properties and those properties determine how it is described, classified, changed, and used.
Science Background
Changing States of Matter: CHEM4Kids (website) – Clear concise description of how all matter can move from one state to another.
Changing States of Matter
by Andrew Rader, CHEM4Kids, www.chem4kids.com
Signature Lesson
Water and Ice: Science NetLinks (website) - Students explore what happens to water as it changes from solid to liquid and back again.
Water and Ice
Science NetLinks, www.sciencenetlinks.com
Melting and Freezing: Science NetLinks (website) - Students explore what happens to different substances as they change from a solid to a liquid or a liquid to a solid.
Melting and Freezing
Science NetLinks, www.sciencenetlinks.com
- Supporting Lessons
- Extensions
- Assessment Ideas
- Literature Connections
- Related
TEKS - Additional Resources
Supporting Lessons
Safe Food Preparation: BioEd Online (website) – Provides another simple recipe for making healthy orange-flavored ice cream in ziplock bags. Be sure to have students measure the temperature of their ice-cream mixtures before and after freezing.
Elaboration Lessons and Extensions
Mpemba Effect, Freezing Hot Water Faster Than Cold: School For Champions (website) - Students compare the time is takes to freeze water at various starting temperatures, under the same conditions. Lesson extensions can be found under teacher background-Mpemba Effect.
Assessment Ideas
Water and Ice: Science NetLinks (website) - Includes an assessment in which students use their journals to answer a series of questions.
Literature Connections
Melting, Freezing, and Boiling Science Projects with Matter. Gardner, R. (ISBN-13: 978-0766025899)
Change It! Solids, Liquids, Gases and You. Mason, A. (ISBN-13: 978-1553378389)
Additional Resources
Changing State: BBC Schools Science Clips (website) - Students experiment virtually with water as it changes from a solid to a liquid, and also observe what happens to gases in a container.
Changing State
BBC Schools Science Clips, www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips
TEKS Navigation
Grade 2
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