CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fifth Grade Science: Physical Science: Chemical Properties of Matter
A module that provides the definition of chemical property and examples of the chemical properties of matter using explanations, pictures, and review questions.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Matter and Energy: Chemical Reactions
Do you know the difference between a physical and a chemical change? This interactive tutorial will explore these concepts!
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Physical and Chemical Changes
This lesson plan focuses on the difference between physical and chemical changes of matter.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Physical and Chemical Changes
[Free Registration/Login Required] Physical and chemical changes are defined and examples are given of each. Practice with determining the difference between mixtures and solutions are also given. Links to external sites for practice...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 5:1 Activity 6: Chemical Change
For this fifth grade activity, students explore how matter changes during a chemical reaction.
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Physical and Chemical Changes
Explore the differences between chemical and physical changes, including some examples at the atomic level.
Utah State Office of Education
Utah Science: Changing Matter
Matter changes both physically and chemically on a fairly regular basis. Through these activities students will challenge their understanding of the changes that may take place with different types of matter.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Matter
Step into Dirtmeister's Science Lab as he explores the challenge question: "How can you force a physical change in matter?" Learn about matter, make your predictions and then do the experiment.
Other
English Montreal School: Chemical vs. Physical Changes: Elements vs. Compounds
A laboratory experiment where students classify matter into a homogenous mixture, heterogeneous mixture, solution, or pure substance. Also students will test for physical and chemical changes.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Changes of State: Chemical and Physical Changes
In this chemistry lab, students will investigate, observe, and describe a variety of chemical and physical changes in matter. They will understand that this is part of everyday life.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Netherlands: What Are Permanent and Temporary Changes?
In this lesson, students match a substance with its state of matter, identify what state something is, and learn about temporary and permanent changes in matter.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Concepts, Classification and States of Matter
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Freshly baked bread and cherry pie are two delicious parts of any meal. What happens to the ingredients that go into the bread and the pie as they are heated in the...
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Lesson Plans: What Is a Chemical Reaction?
After observing a demonstration of a chemical reaction between a burning candle and the oxygen in the air, students use atom model cut-outs to model the reaction and see that all the atoms in the reactants show up in the products.
Other
Classifying Matter and Changes in Matter
Learn to identify changes in matter and explain what happens as matter changes. The lesson is supplemented with several experiments to reinforce key concepts.
Other
Study Stack: Changes in Matter
An online flashcard deck that reviews properties of matter. Test your knowledge of matter, chemical changes, and physical changes. Site allows you to put flashcards into two sections, those you know and those you don't. After separating...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Changes of Matter
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is the third of three lessons. It covers the physical changes of matter and explains how chemical changes can be detected.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's the Matter: Concentration Game
What's the Matter? is a guided inquiry lesson on classification of matter, physical and chemical properties, and physical and chemical changes. There are two parts to this lesson: (a) concentration game for definitions and (b)...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Physical and Chemical Changes
This lesson will describe physical and chemical properties and changes of matter.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Freezing Things: States of Matter
The class will go back over the Power Point presentation on chemical and physical properties. The teacher will then conduct numerous liquid nitrogen demos. This lesson plan is used early in the Chemistry course. The students love it....
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: States of Matter
In this activity, students investigate physical and chemical changes in the states of matter for water. They collect data and record their observations.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Physical and Chemical Properties
Students will learn the difference between physical and chemical properties of matter.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Plastic Polymers: Investigating Their Flexibility
Young scholars will use their prior knowledge about changes of matter to develop a hypothesis to test the physical properties of materials such as plastic (polymers) and how its chemical properties allow it to have unique physical...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: States of Matter [Pdf]
In this instructional activity, students will move and generate choreography to understand different states of matter.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Changes of State
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of a change of state and the physical processes that cause it.