Solids and Liquids in Science

Oh, how we love science!  The touching, the manipulating, the questioning....Science ROCKS!!

Our current science unit is about solids and liquids.  As part of this unit we have done many things including identifying the characteristics and properties of each.  As a fun lesson, I gathered 24 different items (thanks to the families that helped!) and placed them out for the children to investigate.  Their job was to determine if each item was a solid or a liquid, using the properties that they had learned.  The students were able to identify many of the items correctly.  A few tricky ones - toothpaste, peanut butter, and jelly.  Hmmm....What do you think?  Solid or Liquid????

At the end of our experiments we had one more question to answer.  What would happen if we took a solid powder and added a liquid?  Students made their predictions (that it would be chocolate milk) and were pleasantly surprised to find out that this particular solid and liquid, combined together, created a thick liquid known as chocolate pudding!!