Physical Sciences

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Standard Set 1. Physical Sciences

1. Materials come in different forms

How Things Can
Change
(states), including solids, liquids, and
gases. As a basis for understanding
this concept:

1.b. Students know the properties

of substances can change when the
substances are mixed, cooled, or
heated.
by Peggy Bresnick Kendler

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Nonfiction Put Things in Order • Captions Matter

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dissolve
evaporate
How Things Can
Change
freeze
melt

by Peggy Bresnick Kendler

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 Milk is a liquid.
Things Can We can freeze milk.
To freeze is to change a liquid to a solid.
Change Frozen milk is a solid.

Things are solid, liquid, or gas.

Things can change.
Mixing can change some things.
Mix cocoa with milk for chocolate milk!

See what happens when cocoa

mixes with milk!

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Heating melts the frozen milk. Making Ice Cream
Melt means to change to a liquid.
Heating frozen milk makes it into a liquid.

First, pour liquid milk and

cream into a bowl.

Next, stir the liquid in the ice

cream maker.

Popsicles can melt.

The liquid freezes into

a solid. Yum!

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 Wood can be changed by fire.
Properties Can Fire is very, very hot.
Fire burns wood.
Change Heating changes the wood.
It turns it into ashes and smoke.
Size, shape, and color can change.
Rain makes puddles bigger.
When you use crayons, they get smaller.
Mixing changes some things.
Mix red paint and yellow paint.
You get orange paint!

Fire changes wood into ashes.

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 Rocks are solid.
Mixing Changes Rocks do not dissolve in water.
They stay solid.
Things
Mix some salt with water.
The salt is a solid.
The salt can dissolve in water.
To dissolve means to spread through
a liquid.

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 Heating changes snow.
Heating and The Sun’s heat melts the snow.
It changes it into water.
Cooling Changes
Things
Water is a liquid.
Water can freeze as it falls from clouds. Heating makes snow melt.

The frozen water makes snowflakes.

Snowflakes are solid.
Snow is frozen water.

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Water as a Gas The Sun’s heat dries the ground.
It turns the water into a gas.
Rain makes the ground wet.
The water goes into the air.
Later the ground will be dry.
The water will evaporate into the air. Dirt is a solid.
Evaporate means to change from a liquid It does not evaporate.
to a gas. Dirt stays when the water evaporates.

The water evaporates. The dirt does not evaporate.

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 You can cook an egg.
Some Things The egg is changed by heat.
When the egg is heated it cooks.
Cannot Change The cooked egg will never change back to
a raw egg.
Back
You can toast a piece of bread.
It is changed by heating. Heating changes
an egg.
Heating cooks the bread.
It makes it brown and crisp.
The toast will never change back into bread.

Heating changes
bread.

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 What did you learn?
Glossary 1. What happens to water when it is heated?

dissolve spread throughout a liquid 2. How does freezing change water?

evaporate change from a liquid to a gas 3. Write two sentences

describing ice cream before and after it
freeze change from a liquid to a solid melts. Describe how it looks and feels.

4. Put Things in Order Tell what happens

melt change from a solid into a after a snowfall if the Sun comes out and
liquid the air becomes warm. Use the words first,
next, and last.

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