Lesson 26 of 84 · Matter

Lesson⭐ 30 XP🧪 Potion Kitchen

Gooey, Oozy Slime

🧪Lab Brief #26

Gooey, Oozy Slime.

🎯 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

Chocolate melts in your hand because your body is warm.

Key Words

color
shape

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

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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