Lesson 21 of 84 · Matter

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Building with Different Materials

🧪Lab Brief #21

Building with Different Materials.

🎯 Your mission

Master the concept. Use it tomorrow.

⚡ The twist

Mixing two safe things doesn't always make a safe thing.

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Mind = Blown

💧 Hot water can freeze faster than cold water under the right conditions. Nobody fully understands why.

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Make a hypothesis first

Predict: will the mixture get hotter, colder, or stay the same?

What You'll Learn

Stretchy materials like rubber bands can be pulled and they bounce back to their shape.

Key Words

temperature
water

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Read about Matter with a partner or grown-up.

Step 2 — Do

Test 5 objects from your house: put each one in water. Make a chart of which sink and which float.

Step 3 — Observe

Watch carefully. What happens?

Step 4 — Record

Draw and write about what you learned.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What happens when water gets very cold?

How sure are you going to be?😐 maybe

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Where you see this in real life

This is happening in your kitchen right now — every time food cooks.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Find one ingredient in a snack and look up what it does.

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For the dinner table

“What's something we cook that mixes things together this way?”

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