Exploration Field Trip: Slime and Ooze

Description

Identify the characteristics of solids and liquids. Make your own slime to keep, and use it to explain the differences between a liquid and a solid. In the spirit of inquiry, the final product is intentionally ambiguous and encourages students to ask questions instead of just providing a “right answer”: their slime may behave as a liquid, a solid, or both depending on how aggressively they mixed it and how we test its behavior. Activities complement and extend the topics covered in the FOSS Solids and Liquids Unit.

Students will:

Explore the physical science concepts behind two states of matter: liquid and solid.
Manipulate liquid and solid objects.
Create slime and determine whether it is liquid or solid.