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Listen to the "3 States of Matter Song" and recreate any one of the verses using your own words. Record yourself saying/singing the verse on the Voice Memo app on your iPad.

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3 States of Matter Song | Science Songs for Kids

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Play this game and sort each item into the correct state of matter.

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States of Matter is an educational activity for kids to learn about the different properties of matter.

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With help from a grown up, create this science experiment of making rock candy. Use Google Docs to write a paragraph (five sentences), about how the experiment went for you, and upload a picture with your document. Post this to Google Classroom!

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Here's kitchen chemistry that turns a solution of sugar and water into a tasty treat.
Have we got a sweet treat for you! Here is some really awesome kitchen chemistry that turns a solution of sugar and water into a tasty candy. Read on to learn how to make rock candy and how to use sugar crystals to make a treat that is not only super sweet, it's cool to look at, too.
Science is often referred to as the most fun subject in school. (That's because, duh, it is!) Not only is it fun, it can also be delicious. With this rock candy recipe, you'll be jumping "string-first" into some serious chemistry that's cavorting about incognito as, believe it or not, a candy! You'll learn about and apply scientific principles and ideas like solutes, solvents, viscosity, sedimentation, solutions and supersaturated solutions. Huh? That sounds anything BUT tasty. Hang in there and trust us - check it out!

Experiment Materials

Cane sugar (You'll have great results with Imperial Sugar or Dixie Crystals.)

Water

Large glass container (microwave-safe)

Smaller glass jar

Measuring cups

Heavy stirring spoon

Pencil

Food coloring

String (new preferred)

Scissors

Wax paper (or parchment)

Adult supervision

Experiment

An adult must help with this Step! You need to give the water some help with all that sugar so warm up the water. If the container is microwave-safe, put the solution in the oven and heat it for two minutes on high. (You can use a cooktop to heat the solution if you prefer.) Heat the solution to the boiling point.

CAUTION: An adult must handle the hot solution and move it to a stable, heat-safe location. Use the heavy spoon to thoroughly stir the solution again. Make sure all the sugar is stirred but watch out for splatters of hot liquid. Notice how the solution is changing by just using heat.

An adult must help with this Step! Move the stirred solution to the microwave (or cooktop) again and heat it on high for another two minutes. Don't let the solution boil over.

CAUTION: An adult must handle the hot solution and move it to a stable, heat-safe location. Use the spoon to carefully stir the hot solution again. Stir gently because the solution is less viscous (more runny) than before you heated it.

As it cools, the solution becomes more viscous so it might be a trick to push the dried string into it again. You may have to use a slow steady pressure to get it to sink deeply into the solution. You'll need to allow the string to soak in the solution for a week, too. A paper towel over the container will keep dust and goobers away from your candy - uh, your science experiment. Keep track of changes in the solution and the growing crystals in the solution but don't disturb them by moving them. Pictures are a good idea!

When you're ready for the big reveal, lift the pencil and pull the string loaded with crystals out of the jar. Lay them on some wax paper and look closely at what grew on the string. Of course, a taste test will have to be a part of your analysis.

How Does It Work

At first glance, making rock candy may seem like a snooze fest. You've followed the rock candy recipe and have just dipped a piece of string into a solution of sugar and water. It all seems pretty uneventful; in fact, it is a little bit like watching wet paint dry. But wait; look again! How in the world did it turn into a beautiful crystal of candy on a string?

The Science Behind Sugar Crystals
When you mixed the sugar with the water and then heated and stirred the solution repeatedly, you created what is called a "supersaturated solution." This means there are far more dissolved particles of solute (the sugar) than the solvent (the water) can normally dissolve and hold at a given temperature. By stirring the sugar in hot water (instead of room temperature or cold water), the sugar is dissolved faster in the fast-moving (heated) water molecules. As the water cools, the huge amount of sugar particles remains in solution (a supersaturated solution); it now contains more sugar than can stay in the liquid. The sugar falls out of the solution as a "precipitate" (particles). These connect with other sugar particles; in turn, a crystal begins to grow.

Crystallized Sugar and Seed Crystals
When you dried some crystals onto the string ahead of time, you gave the suspended sugar particles a great place to begin crystallizing. These are "seed" crystals. As sugar particles (the precipitate) begin to settle, they join and quickly form more crystals with the other sugar molecules. You see this crystallization on both the bottom and the sides of the jar - as well as on the string. Until you pull it out of the solution and enjoy the candy, these sugar molecules will continue to settle and crystalize both on the string and on top of other sugar molecules, creating rock candy.

Rock Candy Experiment
Did you know that chemistry happens each and every day in kitchens all over the world? Not only does it occur when you learn how to make rock candy, chemical reactions occur each and every time you cook a meal, bake a cake or heat up water for tea. Food science is a fun way to learn more about chemistry. Bonus: You can also often eat the materials! Check out our other food science experiments that use easy-to-find items in your kitchen to create some amazing stuff. Also, check out our science fair project ideas, physics products and chemistry kits and products for all-in-one fun with that WOW factor that Steve Spangler Science is known for!

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Homemade Rock Candy Recipe & Science Experiment

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Here's kitchen chemistry that turns a solution of sugar and water into a tasty treat. Have we got a sweet treat for you! Here is some really awesome kitchen chemistry that turns a solution of sugar and water into a tasty candy.

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Upload a video of you participating in this fitness activity, to help review the states of matter.

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States of Matter Fitness | PBS LearningMedia

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In this 3rd through 5th grade video, students use their science knowledge and apply it using physical activity! Learning about the stages of matter, solid, liquid and gas, students perform an exercise for each as the teacher calls out an object such as soup or fog.

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Create a Google Slide on how each state of matter (Solid, liquid, gas) helps us in our daily lives. Your Google Slide should be a minimum of 5 slides!

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Google Slides: Online Slideshow Maker | Google Workspace

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Use Google Slides to create online slideshows. Make beautiful presentations together with secure sharing in real-time and from any device.

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Play this game and sort each item into the correct state of matter. 

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Use the paint software to draw a picture of how water goes through each state of matter (solid, liquid, gas).

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A good place to start is coloring lineart using just the Fill tool ( ):

Winter Theme

A new UI skin is available, under Extras > Themes > Winter, featuring winter and holiday icons, festive fonts, and a palette with seasonal colors and peppermint patterns.

Merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah!

Better History
New: Jump to any point in the document's history, forwards or backwards, with Edit > History or Ctrl+Shift+Y.

Click on Text in the history view to go back to text editing.

You can return to when a selection existed.

Note: these states are skipped over with normal Undo and Redo, so you need to use the History window.

Branching history: if you undo, and then make changes, you can get back to everything. Future states are preserved.

Warning: History is not saved with the autosave. Document history will be lost if you refresh the page, or close the tab, or if the tab crashes, or if you close or restart your browser, or likely if you're just on a phone and the mobile browser loses focus.
Improved Mobile Support

New: Use two fingers to pan the view.

I recently made it easier to grab handles for resizing things. With that, combined with multitouch panning, JS Paint is much more useable on a phone.

Caveat: It's slow on some devices, and parts of the interface are still too small for touch.

Handles are now way easier to drag, with extended click targets, similar to Paint from Windows 7. It's not unreasonable to use with a touch screen now! This applies to selections, textboxes, and the main canvas handles.

Resizing things while zoomed in is finally fixed!

The Text tool now perfectly previews the pixels that will be placed on the canvas. What you see is what you get! Also it retains all browser editing behavior, like spellcheck, using a convoluted, yet elegant overlaying strategy. (I prototyped this here and here if you're interested.)

With the fill-only option selected, the Polygon tool now previews with inverted lines, like MS Paint does. (When you finish the polygon, the boundary of the shape matches the preview exactly, because it actually does draw a stroke, just the same color as the fill.)

New: The Magnifier now lets you zoom to a specific location, showing a preview of the new viewport.

Also, when zooming out with the Magnifier, or changing the zoom from the toolbar or menus, the top left corner of the viewport is now kept anchored.

Also, pasting a selection will now go to the top left of the viewport, instead of the entire document.

New: The Grid. Zoom to 4x+ and use View > Zoom > Show Grid or Ctrl+G to enable. This works with browser zoom as well to provide crisp gridlines even if you zoom in with your browser.

New: View > Zoom > Custom Zoom, including an actually-custom numerical zoom option, unlike MS Paint.

New: Dynamic cursors for brush and eraser, so you now have a preview of exactly where the tool will draw.

Also, in the event that your browser clears canvases to free up memory, you should be more likely to be able to undo to get back to a useful state.

JS Paint now lets you copy real image data to the Clipboard, both with keyboard shortcuts and from the Edit menu. This feature is available in Chrome 76+. Other browsers don't support it yet, as of Sep 2019.

Also: paste a URL of an image, and JS Paint will load it. (This is an alternative to File > Load from URL.)

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A good place to start is coloring lineart using just the Fill tool (): A new UI skin is available, under Extras > Themes > Winter, featuring winter and holiday icons, festive fonts, and a palette with seasonal colors and peppermint patterns. Merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah!

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Work with another person, and create a Voice Thread describing each state of matter. Your Voice Thread should have at least three (3) characteristics per each state of matter. Post your presentation on Google Classroom, for the whole class to hear!

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design discussions
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professional development
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replace text-only discussions
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support UDL principles
no-schedule office hours
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student presentations
conversational practice
professional development
rich assessment
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Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.