Lesson 11 of 84 · Matter

Simulation⭐ 30 XP🧪 Potion Kitchen

Heavy and Light Things

🧪Lab Brief #11

Heavy and Light Things.

🎯 Your mission

Run the sim. Spot the pattern.

⚡ 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

Feathers are light and rocks are heavy. How do you know which is heavier?

Key Words

cold
heavy

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Have a grown-up read about Matter to you.

Step 2 — Do

Drop a rock and a feather into water. Which one sinks? Which one floats?

Step 3 — Observe

Look closely! What do you see?

Step 4 — Record

Draw a picture of what you learned today.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What color do you get mixing blue and yellow?

How sure are you going to be?😐 maybe

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Where you see this in real life

Your toothpaste, your soap, even your breakfast involves this.

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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.

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For the dinner table

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

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