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The unit will focus on changing states of matter. I will introduce three states of matter and show students that science is around us and we use it in our everyday lives. It will include a basic lesson on three states of matter, solid, liquid and gas, which I will demonstrate with water. I will use discovery lessons where students use the scientific method to predict how water can transform from one state to another and if it can change back. The goal here is to have students realize that some matter can go from one state to another and in the case of water be reversed. “Frozen water molecules, when heated up, vibrate until they start to spin. The swiveling motion causes the Mickey-Mouse-shaped particles to break free of their ice crystal home, bump into neighboring molecules and start a chain reaction of melting.”1
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