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Who Wants to Cook with Chemicals?

By Janice VanCleave

Let’s Use Our Hands to make a Chemical Mixture Homemade play dough is a great science experiment for young learners. But, more than learning about chemistry, this play dough activity connects to other curriculum, including math and art. But one of the best parts is that it is FUN! Even adults will want to get […]

Filed Under: Chemistry Tagged With: matter, physical properties, playdough, states of matter

States of Matter

By Janice VanCleave

The waterfall fills a pool and when the pool fills the water spills over the top, thus water takes up space.

What is Matter? Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space, such as water. The photo shows water first falling and filling and collecting at the bottom of the waterfall. When the collected water increases in volume, the water spills over a rock boundary. Water takes up space. Volume is the amount of […]

Filed Under: Chemistry Tagged With: cohesion, gas, heat, inertia, liquid, mass, matter, solid, volume

Gases Have Volume

By Janice VanCleave

Chemistry is the study of the composition, structure, properties, and interactions of matter. Matter is all the material in the universe. Simply, matter is the stuff that things are made up of. Matter has mass and volume. Mass is the amount of material (stuff)  something is made of. Mass is not affected by gravity. Materials are […]

Filed Under: Chemistry Tagged With: displaced, mass, matter, phases of matter, states of matter, volume

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