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The Particle model

Directions: Work through the worksheet by completing the


activities in order (use a different colour for your answers).

Explore Your Task


Discovering flubber clip ● Look around the room you are in and make a list of all
the different materials you can see.
● Do the materials have the same properties or are they
different?

Explain Your Task


View 1. State what materials are made up of and explain why
View the … Lesson Presentation we can’t see them.
2. State what is meant by a substance and give one
example.
3. List three factors that give a substance its properties.
4. Write down the definition for density and state why
gold has a higher density than aluminium.

Apply Your Task

If you have Lego at home use that, Sometimes we need to model the particles in mixtures and
however if you don’t have any you can substances.
use the online simulation- ● Pick two mixtures and two substances.
Launch the.. Lego Builder simulation ● Use the Lego bricks to model the particles in the
materials you have chosen
● use different coloured bricks to represent different
types of particles.
● When you have finished, take a of your models
and insert into this worksheet (make sure you include
the names of your mixtures and substances).

Extend Your task


Models are never perfect. Describe the ways in which your
model reflects the real particles in mixtures and substances
and the ways it does not accurately represent them.

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