Air Is Matter part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This is a series of investigations about air and its properties. How air exists all around us, and things it is capable of doing.

Demonstrating Climate Change and the Water Cycle to Fifth Grade Students part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
Demonstration of the greenhouse effect and its role in climate change, discussion of the phases of water and the water cycle, and a hands-on experiment to investigate the role of temperature in phase changes of ...

Will the cup of water overflow when the ice melts? part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is an in-class experiment where students predict, observe, and summarize what will happen when ice melts in a cup of water.

Investigating Matter, Solid or Liquid: Barthlomew and the Oobleck part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
The students will be able to define solids and liquids from their prior knowledge. The students will be able to verbalize the differences between solids and liquids? Observe, communicate and question when things aren't what they appear to be. Is Oobleck a solid or liquid? The answer is that it is both. Have the students come up with their own answers and to communicate their findings. The students will understand the difference between a non-Newtonian fluid and a liquid or a solid.

Mystery Material: Is it a solid or a liquid? part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is an investigation of a "mystery material" where students have to determine whether the substance is a solid or a liquid. This activity can be done as part of an earth science or chemistry lesson.

Learning Observation Skills Through Studying Solids, Liquids, and Gases part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is an inquiry lesson where students investigate solids, liquids, and gases through a variety of hands on experiments tied into writing and illustration of observable results.

Exploring States of Matter - Gases part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
A lesson on states of matter using marbles for molecules expands into 3 more lessons elaborating on properties of a gas.

Investigating Matter: Identifying Properties and States of Matter part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a classroom lab in which students investigate and observe three types of balloons to help identify the states of matter and their properties.

Oil and Water Art Project part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This is an art project where oil paints and water is used. Students will have already explored the densities of oil and water.

Changing the state of matter using heating and cooling part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This investigation will have students testing how heating and cooling can change the state of matter. They will test a variety of materials determine whether a change takes place through heating/cooling.

Freezing and phase change: How do you make ice cream? part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is an extension where students freeze a liquid, making ice cream.

Solids and Liquids Stations part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a classroom activity where the students move through learning stations to explore the properties of solids and liquids.

Solid and Liquid Density Investigation part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Students will explore with solids and liquids to discover what density is. Students will be involved in small group experiments and a full group experiment. Observing, predicting, exploring and discovering are all included in this lesson.

Do Water Molecules Have Space Between Them? part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a guided inquiry where students will investigate if water molecules have any space between them.

Air Has Matter part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This is a series of activities demonstrating that air has mass, takes up space, and can exert a force on objects enough to lift them.

Solid or Liquid? part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This guided inquiry lesson allows students to make explore with materials and draw conclusions if they are a solid or liquid.

Is all ice created equal? A density lab. part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This lab helps students to understand the density is state dependent and can change based on the state of the element.

State of Matter of an Unknown Material part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is used to introduce the different properties of states of matter, by testing an unknown substance with household materials to determine which state of matter most closely resembles the material. It also can invole data collection, reasoning, grph making, and presentation of findings.

States of Matter: Which Will Propel the Balloon? part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity models the states of matter and students investigate those states with a balloon/straw rocket.

The Three States of Matter part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This is a classroom activity in which students explore solids, liquids, and gases, and their properties. This provides hands on experience for all students.