Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Ooh, Oobleck!

Subject Area

Science

Grade(s)

5

Overview

Jump in with both feet as you watch oobleck (cornstarch and water mixture) videos and learn about three states of matter: solids, liquids, and gases. Learn to use captions and charts to make reading comprehension less messy and loads of fun.

    Science (2015) Grade(s): 5

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    Investigate matter to provide mathematical evidence, including graphs, to show that regardless of the type of reaction (e.g., new substance forming due to dissolving or mixing) or change (e.g., phase change) that occurs when heating, cooling, or mixing substances, the total weight of the matter is conserved.

    Unpacked Content

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    Vocabulary

    • Quantitative measurements (mass, weight, standard unit)
    • Physical quantities (weight, time, temperature, volume)
    • Property changes
    • Matter
    • Reaction
    • Heating
    • Cooling
    • Mixing
    • Physical properties
    • Conservation of matter
    • Graphing

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • The amount (weight) of matter is conserved when it changes form, even in transitions in which it seems to vanish.
    • No matter what reaction or change in properties occurs, the total weight of the substances does not change. (Boundary: Mass and weight are not distinguished at this grade level.)

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Measure and graph the given quantities using standard units, including: the weight of substances before they are heated, cooled, or mixed and the weight of substances, including any new substances produced by a reaction, after they are heated, cooled, or mixed.
    • Measure and/or calculate the difference between the total weight of the substances (using standard units) before and after they are heated, cooled, and/or mixed.
    • Describe the changes in properties they observe during and/or after heating, cooling, or mixing substances.
    • Use their measurements and calculations to describe that the total weights of the substances did not change, regardless of the reaction or changes in properties that were observed.
    • Use measurements and descriptions of weight, as well as the assumption of consistent patterns in natural systems, to describe evidence to address scientific questions about the conservation of the amount of matter, including the idea that the total weight of matter is conserved after heating, cooling, or mixing substances.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Standard units are used to measure and describe physical quantities such as weight and can be used to demonstrate the conservation of the total weight of matter.

    Scientific and Engineering Practices

    Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking

    Crosscutting Concepts

    Scale, Proportion, and Quantity
    Science (2015) Grade(s): 5

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    Investigate whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances (e.g., mixing of baking soda and vinegar resulting in the formation of a new substance, gas; mixing of sand and water resulting in no new substance being formed).

    Unpacked Content

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    Vocabulary

    • variables
    • states of matter
    • properties of matter
    • chemical change
    • physical change
    • evidence
    • temperature

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • When two or more different substances are mixed, a new substance with different properties may be formed.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • From a given investigation plan, describe the phenomenon under investigation, including the mixing of two or more substances.
    • Identify the purpose of the investigation.
    • Describe the evidence from data that will be collected, including quantitative and qualitative properties of the substances to be mixed and the resulting substances.
    • Collaboratively plan an investigation and describe the data to be collected, including: how quantitative and qualitative properties of the two or more substances to be mixed will be determined and measured, number of trials for the investigation, how variables will be controlled to ensure a fair test.
    • Collect necessary data.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Cause and effect relationships are identified and used to explain changes like those that occur when two or more substances are mixed together.

    Scientific and Engineering Practices

    Planning and Carrying out Investigations

    Crosscutting Concepts

    Cause and Effect
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    Interactive/Game

    Resource Provider

    PBS
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