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Standard Set 1 Physical Sciences

1 Materials come in different forms

(states), including solids, liquids, and

gases As a basis for understanding

this concept:

1.a Students know solids, liquids, and

gases have different properties.

by Kim Fields

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Solids, Liquids, and Gases?

What is a property?

Size is a property

A property is something you can notice

You use your senses to notice a property

Size is a property.

3

A book has properties

What size is the book?

Ice has properties

What size is the ice?

Notice how big the book is

Properties of Things

Shape and color are properties

The way something feels is also a property

Everything in the bedroom

has properties.

5

Look at the bedroom

What shapes do you see?

What colors do you see?

Solids

Some things are solids

A solid has its own size.

These cars are solids

7

A solid has its own shape

You can move a solid to another place

It will still be the same shape!

Many of your things are solids.

Weight

Weight is a property

Weight is how heavy something is.

Some things weigh more than others

9

Look at the cat

Look at the truck

The truck weighs more than the cat

The cat weighs less than the truck.

Liquids

A liquid takes the shape of its container.

It does not have its own shape

It has its own amount or size

11

Look at these glasses

Each one has a different shape

Each one has the same amount of liquid

The liquids take the shapes

of the glasses.

A gas can change size and shape.

A gas takes the shape of its container

It also fi lls up its container

12

Air fi lls the balloon.

13

A gas does not have its own shape

A gas does not have its own size

Look at the bike

It uses air

You cannot see this gas

We put air in our tires.

How are solids,

liquids, and gases

different?

Gases are different from liquids

Liquids are different from solids

Look at the picture

Can you fi nd a solid?

Can you fi nd a liquid?

Can you fi nd a gas?

Solids, liquids,

and gases

have different

properties.

Solids and liquids have their own size

Gases do not have their own size

A liquid takes the shape of its container

A gas takes the shape of its container

A solid has its own shape

gas something that takes the shape

and size of its container

liquid something that takes the shape

of its container and has its own amount or size

property something that you can

observe with your senses

solid something that has its own

shape and size

Glossary What did you learn?1 What are some properties of a solid?

2 How are liquids and gases the same? How

are they different?

3 You learned about three types of matter Solids, liquids, and gases have different properties Think of a day when you observed all three types of matter Write three sentences to describe

a solid, a liquid, and a gas that you noticed

4 Use Context Clues Go back and look

at the picture on pages 8 and 9 What does the picture tell you? How does it help you fi gure out what is being talked about?