In this activity, students use water to explore its properties as a solid, liquid or gas.

By the end of this activity, students should be able to:

  • identify one or more characteristics of water in its solid state (ice)
  • identify one or more characteristics of water in its liquid state (water)
  • identify that gas is also a state of matter.

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