Lesson 71 of 84 · Matter
Simulation⭐ 30 XP🧪 Potion KitchenMaking Mixtures (Part 3)
Making Mixtures (Part 3).
🎯 Your mission
Run the sim. Spot the pattern.
⚡ The twist
Mixing two safe things doesn't always make a safe thing.
Mind = Blown
💧 Hot water can freeze faster than cold water under the right conditions. Nobody fully understands why.
Make a hypothesis first
Predict: will the mixture get hotter, colder, or stay the same?
What You'll Learn
Everything around you is made of matter. Matter is anything that takes up space and has weight.
Key Words
- heat
- cool
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 3Can you separate sand from water?
Where you see this in real life
This is happening in your kitchen right now — every time food cooks.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Find one ingredient in a snack and look up what it does.
For the dinner table
“What's something we cook that mixes things together this way?”
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