Santa Rosa Elementary School Central III

STRATEGIC Intervention
Materials
SIM
Science and Health III

Least Mastered Competency

MATTER

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What you wanted to know about the three
states of matter and their properties!!!

Strategic Intervention Material

Ma. Liza L. Israel
SRES central III

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 Least Mastered Competency
Science and Health III

Main Task
State some characteristics of solids, liquids, and gases.
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Sub Task
Demonstrate that solids, liquids and gases occupy space.

Content Standard:
Content Standard:
The learner will state the characteristics of solids,
liquids andThe learner will state some characteristics of solids,
gases.
liquids and gases.
Performance Standard:
Performance Standard:
The learners by group will state the characteristics
ofThe learner
each state will state some
of matter characteristics
and demonstrate ofsolids,
that each state
liquidsof
matter
and gasesand demonstrate
occupy space. that solids, liquids and gases occupy

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 Title Card
Student’s Notes
Things We Call Matter
Please check the box.
After reading this page….
Everything around you is matter. Matter is
made of atoms. Atoms are very tiny particles that you Now I understand what the
lesson is all about.
cannot see. You need special instruments to see them.
When atoms join other atoms, they make molecules.
Molecules are still very small for your eyes to see. But I still do not understand the
lesson.
when lots and lots of molecules join together, they form
the things around you, that is matter. What I think about the
The science that studies matter is called things to do…
chemistry. Easy
Matter has mass. Mass is how much material
Difficult
something has. Here on earth, mass and weight are the
same. For this lesson I want to
Matter has volume. Volume is how much study…
space a thing takes up. All matter has volume. Alone
Everything occupies space.
With one of my classmate

The three states of matter are solid, liquid

and gas. With in a
group

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 Guide Card

Solid materials has a definite shape.

Liquids have no definite shape.

Gases such as air cannot be seen and touched.

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 Activity Card 1

Perform this activity.

Prove that solids occupy space.
What you need:

box of crayon
a pair of scissors
paste
ruler

What you should do:

1. Get your box of crayons and put it on your table.

2. Get your pair of scissors and put it beside the box of crayons.

3. Then, get your paste and ruler. Put them on the table, too.
Analysis:
1. Can the box of crayons be in the place where the pair of scissors is?

2. Can the ruler and paste be in the place where the pair of scissors is?

Conclusion:

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 Activity Card 2

Perform this activity.

Prove that liquids take the shape

Of their containers.

What you need:

a bottle
a glass tumbler
water

What you have to do:

Fill the bottle and the glass tumbler with water.

Look at the containers.

Conclusion:

Answer the following questions:

1. How can you tell if a thing is a liquid?

2. Explain why a liquid flows and takes the shape of its container.

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 Activity Card 3
Perform this activity.

Prove that gases cannot be seen.

What you need:

a page of an old newspaper

paste

What you should do:

1. Make a paper fan out of the newspaper.

2. Fan yourself.

Observations:

Answer the following questions.

1. What did you feel when you fanned yourself?

2. What is produced when you fanned yourself?

Findings:

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 Activity Card 3.1

Prove that gas occupies space.

What you need:

a plastic bag

What you should do:

1. Get a plastic bag.

2. Hold its opening and blow air into it.
3. Then, twist its opening to prevent the air from going out.

Observations:
1. What happened to the plastic bag?

2. Does air occupy space?

Findings:

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 Assessment Card 1

Find and encircle the solids below.

E J J X K K O P G O I S
W T L A S I A V Y C K T
B L K H J P O W E H O E

M I O W E S B C E H I A
F C O R H L R N A S V M
I N B O A E O I R M Y R
C E E N A C R V K M B L
E P K M E I S L A M P C

C E L A E K O M S O M E
T T N D J R C F L B O I
L B E U R E T A W W P J
Z X W O S R A I R Y G N

air paper steam ice cream

ice pencil water blanket
book salt ocean lamp
hair shoe smoke

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 Assessment Card 2

Write S if the object is a solid, L if it is s liquid, and G if it is a gas.

________1. alcohol _________ 11. water vapor

_________ 2. cell phone _________ 12. chalk

_________ 3. atmosphere _________ 13. paper

_________ 4. electric fan _________ 14. urine

_________ 5. wine __________15. curtain

_________ 6. blanket _________ 16. slippers

_________ 7. perfume _________ 17. coins

_________ 8. oxygen _________ 18. mouthwash

_________9. water bottle _________ 19. leaves

_________10. radio _________ 20. breeze

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 Enrichment Card

Rearrange the letters inside the parentheses to complete each statement.

1. ________________ ( T R T E M A ) occupies space and has mass.

2. Matter is made of tiny particles called _____________

( S T A M O ).

3. Atoms joined together are known as ______________

( E L L O E S M U C ).

4. ________________ ( M U L O V E ) is how much space a thing occupies.

5. Mass is how much _______________ ( A L R I M E A T ) a thing has.

6. ________________ ( H R I S Y E C M T ) this the science at studies matter.

7. ________________ ( L D S O S I ) have the most organized molecules.

8. ________________ ( T A S T E ) is how matter is.

9. ________________ ( A G E S S ) have the least organized molecules.

10. There are ________________ ( R E H T E ) states of matter.

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