Lesson 52 of 84 · Matter
Lesson⭐ 30 XP🧪 Potion KitchenCooking Changes Food (Part 2)
Cooking Changes Food (Part 2).
🎯 Your mission
Understand the idea. Then look for it everywhere.
⚡ The twist
If it bubbles, something invisible is escaping.
Mind = Blown
🧪 If you could remove all the empty space from atoms, the entire human race would fit in a sugar cube.
Make a hypothesis first
Guess: will the fizz be loud, soft, or none at all?
What You'll Learn
Magnets attract some metals like iron and steel, but not wood, plastic, or aluminum.
Key Words
- water
- steam
Steps
Look at the new words. Can you say each one?
Put an ice cube on a plate and watch it for 10 minutes. Draw what it looks like every 2 minutes.
Use your senses to describe what you notice.
Write 1-2 sentences about what happened.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What is steam?
Where you see this in real life
Your toothpaste, your soap, even your breakfast involves this.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Ask a grown-up to help you mix two safe kitchen things. Predict what will happen first.
For the dinner table
“What's something we cook that mixes things together this way?”
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