Properties of Matter Teacher Guide contains links to the CKSci Online Resources Guide, which gives teachers additional science and teaching strategies such as virtual field trips, simulations, still images, and videos. It also contains strategies for teaching core vocabulary as well as suggestions for using language of instruction. The TG has reduced full-color Student Book pages for handy reference, activity page masters, assessments, features on knowing the science, and connections to appropriate sections of the Next Generation Science Standards Performance Objectives and the three dimensions of learning. All materials may be freely downloaded and previewed in their entirety

This unit introduces Grade 2 students to real-world examples and fundamental concepts of properties of matter, which will be explored in greater depth in later grades. Students will learn about observable properties of matter, including the basic states of matter; discover patterns and make predictions based on properties of matter; and explore how heating and cooling can change matter.

Students explore concepts that include the following:

• Different forms of matter exist and can be solid, liquid, or gas depending on the temperature.
• Matter can be described and classified by its observable and measurable properties.
• Different properties of matter are suited to different purposes.
• A variety of objects can be built up from a small set of pieces.
• Heating and cooling a substance may cause an observable change that may or may not be reversible.

CKSci is informed by the NGSS, which encourages student learning through hands-on activities and collecting data. This activity-centered approach requires, at times, that schools collect or purchase materials and equipment that will be needed to complete activities.

Complete materials supply list for CKSci Unit 1: Properties of Matter