Matter, Matter, What’s the Matter?

Provide students with hands-on opportunities to construct a fundamental understanding of matter. This understanding includes the ideas that everything is made of matter, different matter has different properties that make them unique and useful in different ways, material can be sorted and described by their properties, and matter is made of smaller parts called molecules and atoms. The specific properties explored include: magnetism, opacity, density, elasticity, conductivity, and buoyancy.