1. Matter Matters! An Internet Scavenger Hunt
Annie Harary & Adrienne Harrold ED
Spring 2010

2. Introduction What is matter?
Watch the following YouTube Clip:
What do you see around you? Matter is all around you!
Everything in this world is made of matter. A tiny raindrop to the Empire State Building to the stars in the sky are all made up of matter!
Complete this scavenger hunt to learn even more about matter.

3. Directions
Answer the 10 questions that follow by right-clicking on the hyperlinks and then choosing “open hyperlink”.
Record your answers on your Matter Matters! Scavenger Hunt Worksheet.

4. Questions 1. What is matter? 2. What are the 3 main states of matter?
2. What are the 3 main states of matter?
1. What is matter?
2. What are the 3 main states of matter?

5. Questions Use the following links to answer questions 3 - 5:
3. What are some properties of a solid?
4. What are some properties of a liquid?
5. What are some properties of a gas?
Range 7-11&subject=Science

6. Questions
6. Play the interactive game on the following website. Which objects were solids, liquids, and gases?
7. How does matter change from one state to another?

7. Questions
8. Draw or find a picture of what the molecules look like in a solid, liquid, and gas.
Use the following interactive link to answer questions 9 and 10:
9. At which temperatures does water become a solid and a gas?
10. What happens to the container if you increase the temperature past the gas state?

8. References
APBI Resources for Schools (2010). The properties of solids, liquids, and gases. Retrieved from
Range 7-11&subject=Science
BBC. (2010, April). Changing state. Retrieved from
BBC. (2010). Gases, liquids, and solids. Retrieved from
gases_liquids_solids/play.shtml
gases_liquids_solids/read1.shtml
BBC. (2010). States of matter. Retrieved from
changing_state/read2.shtml
Estacio, S.M. (n.d). What is matter: Grade 4. Retrieved from
Estacio, S.M. (n.d). What is matter: Grade 4. Retrieved from
Gases, liquids, and solids. (n.d.). Retrieved from
Harcourt School Publishers (n.d.). Heat makes the difference. Retrieved from
science_up_close/501/deploy/interface.html
Idaho Public Television (2005, October 18). States of matter. Retrieved from
facts.cfm
Nye, B. Bill Nye on phases of matter [Video File]. Retrieved from
States of matter. (2009). Retrieved from