Teacher Recommended Resources - Changes

These extensions are brought to you by other teachers who have used this unit. They have not been evaluated by The Einstein Project. REV. 4/24/08

Condensation of steam on a mirror

Blow up a balloon using vinegar & baking soda in a bottle

Made miniature greenhouses with McDonald’s sundae cups

Books: 200 Gooey, Slippery, Slimy, Weird, and Fun Experiments, by Janice Van Cleave
  201 Awesome, Magical, Bizarre, and Incredible Experiments, by Janice VanCleave
 202 Oozing, Bubbling, Dripping, and Bouncing Experiments, by Janice Van Cleave
 From Cow to Ice cream – Changes series

Make ice cream in freezer bags – shake & make

Made crystal jewels with Epson salts

Chromatography art

Made:  bread in a bread machine
- Volcanoes   -  trail mix
- glorious goop   -  hot cocoa
- milk kaleidoscopes  -  butter
- gak    -  Jell-O
- slime [cornstarch]  - silly putty

Used the separation of maker on filters to create tie-dye artwork
- butterflies
- traced a leaf pattern - cut out - made a bulletin board

Set up stations to make mixtures

Did a partner assessment

If you put green food coloring in goop = Oobleck from Dr. Seuss
Videos:  Magic School Bus:  “Gets Baked in a Cake”
        “        “          “The Waterworks”
        “        “         “Ready, Set, Dough”
    “Solids, Liquids, & Gases” - National Geographic Society
    “States of Matter” - Bill Nye
      “How Jelly Beans are Made” – the Jelly Belly Co.
   “All About Solids, Liquids, & Gases” – Physical Science for Children – Schlessinger Media, ISBN# 1-57225-291-x, 23 mins. Gr. K-4

Field trips: Water treatment plant
- Pretzel maker
- Recycling Center
- Great Harvest Bread store

Made salt & sugar crystals - on display for parents
- made crystals from Epson salts & borax

Observed what happened when we put an egg & a chicken bone in vinegar

Speakers: the Dairy Council - Shellie Ka

Social studies tie in - use the book Special Trade

Added soda to some steel wool to see how that would affect change -  Yuk!

States of Matter flip book - Scholastic

Red Rover game - how molecules pass through and close up again

Lesson 1 - students needed to generate words to describe events - great for teaching adjectives

Finger skateboard races with a film container taped to a toy, add tablet & water. Gas makes the skateboards go.

We put a wooden popsicle stick in the salt water mixture. The water & salt were absorbed by the wood. The students needed to relate what happened.

We made up an action/rhythm for each state of matter: stiff robot like movements for solids. Fluid movements with scarves for liquids. Large movements for gases.

Alka-Seltzer, film canister and water Rockets

Make pipe cleaner snowflakes and suspend them overnight in a solution of
3 T of Borax per cup of boiling water. Crystals form on the pipe cleaners.

Taught the water cycle in-depth emphasizing the changes from solid to liquid to gas [evaporation & condensation]