Do you realize, that when we cook

an egg the color and textures of it

change? What do you think cause
them to change?

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UNIT 10
PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL
CHANGES

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10.1 How Can Materials be Classified by Their
Constituents?

At the end of this section, you should be able to answer the

following question:

How can materials be

classified by their
constituents?

Constituent: a component part of something.

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From the short video you’ve
seen, what do you think
happened to the egg? What
changed?

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10.1 How Can Materials be Classified by Their
Constituents?

How can materials around us be classified?

• Things around us are made up of different materials.
• They can be classified into pure substances and
mixtures depending on their constituents.

What would be considered as a pure substance?

• A pure substance is made up of only one substance.

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10.1 How Can Materials be Classified by Their
Constituents?

What makes up a mixture?

• A mixture is made up of two or more substances that are
not chemically combined.
• For example, air is a mixture of different gases.

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Can you tell me more about
what is the other example of
a mixture?

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10.2 What Causes Changes in Materials?

Talking about the eggs that changed color and texture after
being cooked, could the change be reversed?

What causes
changes in materials?

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10.2 What Causes Changes in Materials?

What causes changes in materials?

• Changes can take place when materials interact
with heat, light or electricity or are mixed.

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Can a change in an
object be reversible?

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Now let’s close your book first, let’s do Creative Science:
Modelling Clay Animal on Page 102.
1. Think of an animal
2. Mold the clays into different parts of the animals based on its sizes
and shapes
3. Join them
4. Your time is only 10 minutes.
5. After you’re done, we’ll answer the questions together

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10.3 What Are Physical Changes?

There are a few changes that could happen into a

materlals, first one is physical changes.

What are physical

changes?

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10.3 What Are Physical Changes?

What defines a physical change?

• A physical change is a change that occurs only in the
appearance of the material.
• There may be a change in size, shape or state of the
material.
• A physical change does not result in the formation of
new materials.

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10.4 What Are Chemical Changes?

There are also chemical changes…

What are chemical

changes?

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10.4 What Are Chemical Changes?

What defines a chemical change?

• A chemical change results in the
formation of new materials.
• It involves a chemical reaction.
• Energy is either given off or taken in
during a chemical reaction.
• There may be a change in the colour,
smell, shape or structure of the
material.

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Now, let’s test your knowledge…

Chemical change Physical change

Chemically combined Pure substance

Mixture Reaction

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Science Glossary

Chemical change Physical change

Change in which new materials Change in which no new
are formed material is formed
Chemically combined Pure substance
Joined through a chemical Made up of only one substance
reaction
Mixture Reaction
Made up of two or more Change where two or more
substances that are not substances react to form new
chemically combined substances

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Next Meeting: Quiz

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What We Have Learnt

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