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Solids, Liquids, and Gases

🧪Lab Brief #1

Solids, Liquids, and Gases.

🎯 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.

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Mind = Blown

🌈 Every color you see is your brain inventing a translation of light frequencies.

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Make a hypothesis first

Before you mix: what color do you think it'll turn?

What You'll Learn

Solids keep their shape. Liquids take the shape of their container. Gases spread out and fill any space.

Key Words

solid
liquid
gas

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Read about Matter with a partner or grown-up.

Step 2 — Do

Test 5 objects from your house: put each one in water. Make a chart of which sink and which float.

Step 3 — Observe

Watch carefully. What happens?

Step 4 — Record

Draw and write about what you learned.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What are the three states of matter?

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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