Are you good at finding things? Are you observant? If "yes," then choose this scavenger hunt to find all kinds of matter. On your game board, you'll get one point for each one you find and five points if you're the only one that has that answer. You will have to use color, taste, smell, shape, size or how something feels (all properties of matter), to help you. Do you think you'll find more solids or liquids or gases? Will you score more points if you go outside? Let the hunt begin!
What things have more than one state of matter?
What things can cause a state of matter to change?
What liquids can be mixed?
How do the senses help us identify matter?
"What's the Matter?" Game Board
Get the "What's the Matter?" game board from your teacher and follow these directions.(see Step Supplement)
a. Read the words in each box on the game board to find the property of matter each thing you find must have. (You may get help reading the words if needed.)
b. You may find things inside or outside.
c. When you find something that has the property, draw a picture of it and write the word in the box, too. (You may get help spelling the words or you may use invented spelling like the word sounds.)
d. You get one point for every box that you fill correctly.
e. If more that one person is doing this activity, you get five points if you find something no one else has.
f. You get ten extra points if you have found at least one of all of the states of matter - solid, liquid and gas.
g. Look again at the things you found and lightly color a frame on the inside of each box like this: Solid - green; Liquid - blue; Gas - yellow.
h. When you are finished, have an adult sign the game board verifying that you did actually find all of these things.
i. Return your game board to your teacher.
Whole Group Activity
If this is to be used as a large group activity, the game boards are to be returned to the children and "scored" individually as follows. Individual responses will be recorded on a master chart for all students to see.
a. Read aloud your answer from the first box to your teacher. The teacher will record your answer in the large box for all to see.
b. Before going on to the next box, the teacher will tell you if your response does have the correct property and will ask if anyone else has it.
c. If no one else has your answer, you get five points and need to put that number in the score box in the square.
d. If someone else has your answer, you get one point in the score box.
e. If you found nothing with that property, you score zero.
f. The teacher continues around the room gathering and recording data on the big chart about each box from the game boards.
g. How many solids, liquids and gases found by the class are tabulated by the teacher with tallies at the bottom of the chart as that information is shared.
Remember you get 10 points for having at least one thing from each state of matter - solid, liquid, and gas.
h. Add all of your points starting with ten, then fives and then add your ones. Put your score in the Score Box in the top right corner of your game board.
Materials
The "What's the Matter?" game board which can be printed from the resource.
Use the form and checklist below to evaluate the student's performance on the activity.
Get the "What's the Matter?" game board from your teacher and follow these directions.(see Step Supplement)
a. Read the words in each box on the game board to find the property of matter each thing you find must have. (You may get help reading the words if needed.)
b. You may find things inside or outside.
c. When you find something that has the property, draw a picture of it and write the word in the box, too. (You may get help spelling the words or you may use invented spelling like the word sounds.)
d. You get one point for every box that you fill correctly.
e. If more that one person is doing this activity, you get five points if you find something no one else has.
f. You get ten extra points if you have found at least one of all of the states of matter - solid, liquid and gas.
g. Look again at the things you found and lightly color a frame on the inside of each box like this: Solid - green; Liquid - blue; Gas - yellow.
h. When you are finished, have an adult sign the game board verifying that you did actually find all of these things.
i. Return your game board to your teacher.
If this is to be used as a large group activity, the game boards are to be returned to the children and "scored" individually as follows. Individual responses will be recorded on a master chart for all students to see.
a. Read aloud your answer from the first box to your teacher. The teacher will record your answer in the large box for all to see.
b. Before going on to the next box, the teacher will tell you if your response does have the correct property and will ask if anyone else has it.
c. If no one else has your answer, you get five points and need to put that number in the score box in the square.
d. If someone else has your answer, you get one point in the score box.
e. If you found nothing with that property, you score zero.
f. The teacher continues around the room gathering and recording data on the big chart about each box from the game boards.
g. How many solids, liquids and gases found by the class are tabulated by the teacher with tallies at the bottom of the chart as that information is shared.
Remember you get 10 points for having at least one thing from each state of matter - solid, liquid, and gas.
h. Add all of your points starting with ten, then fives and then add your ones. Put your score in the Score Box in the top right corner of your game board.
This activity may be an individual, small cooperative group, or whole group activity. If done with several participants, scoring adds to the excitement.
The activity can be given as a homework assignment and scored as a group when returned.
The child is asked to write the word as well draw a picture to help remember and recognize the object.
Rather than actually finding the objects, an optional activity is to fill in the box with any item the child knows that has the properties. If done this way, the parent verification signature could be deleted.
Some items could be both solid and liquid or solid and gas. The student may use it as desired when coloring the frames around each state of matte
Using a digital camera to take a picture of the objects would be a great reinforcement.
ou may help your daughter or son with the spelling of words in this activity.
Encourage your son or daughter to look for liquids and gases that fulfill the properties, not just solids which are easier to locate.
You or your child could use a digital camera to take pictures of the objects found.
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