Upcoming Science Assessment

We have been working hard on our Solids, Liquids and Gas science unit these last few weeks!  We have been learning about all the different properties (or ways of describing) both solids and liquids including solids being rigid or flexible, smooth or rough and hard or soft, and liquids being foamy, bubbly, transparent, translucent and viscous!

We have also conducted several experiments including our recent Slime Lab brought to us by the Ann Arbor Hands On Museum, sorting dry soup ingredients using different size screens and comparing a set of objects in our discovery bags.  We are currently in the process of observing if water evaporates faster in different parts of the room.  You can also ask your child if they can remember our song about what it means to evaporate.  "EVAPORATION! evaporation! When the the water disappears!"

Tomorrow will be the conclusion of our Solids, Liquids and Gas unit with our final unit assessment. Please see the below study guide and go over with your child their understanding of the concepts we have learned this semester.  If you have any questions, please let me know.

I can use vocabulary that I learned in my Solids, Liquids and Gas unit:

Solid - does not change its shape, takes up space

Liquid - changes it shape to fit its container, takes up space

Gas - changes it shape to fit its container, fills any container

Melting - when a solid turns into a liquid (ex. ice becoming water)

Evaporation - when a liquid turns into a gas (ex. water disappearing over time)

Freezing - when a liquid turns into a solid (ex. when water turns into ice)

I can sort objects based on their properties:

  

              

           

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