Matter

3.3 The student will investigate and understand how materials interact with water. Key
ideas include
a) solids and liquids mix with water in different ways; and
b) many solids dissolve more easily in hot water than in cold water.

Central Idea: Many substances interact in water; when substances dissolve in water, a solution
is formed. The dissolved substance is still present even though it cannot be seen.

Vertical Alignment: Students explore characteristics of three phases of matter and the effect
heating and cooling have on each phase in second grade (2.3). In fifth grade, students expand
upon this knowledge as they learn matter has properties and interactions (5.7).

Enduring Understandings Essential Knowledge and Practices

Water dissolves more substances than any In order to meet this standard, it is expected
other liquid. Some liquids will mix with that students will
water, while others will not.
plan and conduct an investigation to
 Dissolving is when a substance is identify liquid materials that will mix with
distributed evenly throughout another water (3.3 a)
substance. The substance being dissolved
breaks down into smaller pieces that  classify liquids by their ability to mix with
cannot be seen (3.3 a). water (3.3 a)
plan and conduct an investigation to
 Some solids will dissolve in water while
determine solids that will dissolve in
others will not (3.3 a).
water (3.3 a)
 Substances dissolve faster in hot water
 classify solids based on their ability to
than cold water because hot water has
dissolve in water (3.3 b)
more energy than cold water. When water
is heated, the molecules gain energy and, plan and conduct an investigation to
thus, move faster. As the molecules move determine the effect of water temperature
faster, they make contact with the sugar on the dissolving of a solid (3.3 b).
more often, causing it to dissolve faster
(3.3 b). Students do not need to know the
terms solute, solvent, atoms, molecules, or
particles.