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Lesson⭐ 30 XP🧪 Potion KitchenSorting Materials (Part 3)
Sorting Materials (Part 3).
🎯 Your mission
Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.
⚡ The twist
Color changes mean atoms are rearranging — even if you can't see them.
Mind = Blown
🌈 Every color you see is your brain inventing a translation of light frequencies.
Make a hypothesis first
Before you mix: what color do you think it'll turn?
What You'll Learn
Light passes through transparent materials (glass), but not through opaque materials (wood).
Key Words
- melt
- freeze
- dissolve
Steps
Read about Matter with a partner or grown-up.
Test 5 objects from your house: put each one in water. Make a chart of which sink and which float.
Watch carefully. What happens?
Draw and write about what you learned.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What happens when water gets very cold?
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?”
Next Smart Experiment
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