Solids, Liquids, and Gases Web Links

Our writers recommended these independent websites as background information and content supplements for the Solids, Liquids and Gases lessons.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise/science/materials/08_act.shtml
This page has links to activities for grouping materials and classifying solids, liquids, and gases. It gives a brief explanation about the arrangement and movement of particles in solids, liquids, and gases, without mentioning atoms or molecules. Other activities touch on topics such as mixing and separating, and reversible and irreversible changes. Designed for children aged 4-11.

http://www.abpischools.org.uk/resources/solids-liquids-gases/index.asp
From this page teachers can navigate children to a series of appealing animations with simple text about states of matter, changes between states, and dissolving. It also includes additional classroom activities that would be suitable for extensions. Designed for children aged 7-11.

http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/schoolzone/materials.cfm
This site, provided by the Canada Science and Technology Museum, contains a quiz about different materials and their properties.

http://ksnn.larc.nasa.gov/k2/s_statesMatter.html
This site presents a simple video, geared towards children in grades K-2, explaining how water can be solid, liquid, or gas. It also provides activities about the three states of matter.

http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=131 
If the children you’re working with have used a balance scale to explore the property of weight, this online game provides a good mathematics extension. Children explore the relationships between the weights of different abstract shapes by placing them on either side of a balance scale. This version uses numbers suitable for primary classrooms.

http://www.chemheritage.org/classroom/chemach/index.html
While the reading level of this site is too advanced for most children in grades 1-3, this is a good teacher resource for learning about the scientists that created the study of chemistry, and a good place for children to find pictures of these men and women.