📚 Part 1: Understanding Matter

1. What is matter?

Only things you can see

Anything that takes up space and has mass

Only solid objects

Only things that are heavy

2. Which of these are examples of matter? (Tick all that apply)

A rugby ball

Air in a balloon

Water in a glass

Your thoughts

A wooden chair

3. Mass is:

How much space something takes up

How much matter is in an object

The colour of an object

How tall something is

4. Volume is:

How heavy something is

How much space something takes up

How hard something is

How hot something is

✏️ Part 2: Properties of Matter

5. Look at the objects around your classroom. Name three objects that are matter and explain why they are matter.

Object 1: _________________________________

Why it's matter: ____________________________

Object 2: _________________________________

Why it's matter: ____________________________

Object 3: _________________________________

Why it's matter: ____________________________

6. Complete these sentences about mass and volume:

We measure mass using _________________ or _________________.

We measure volume using _________________ or _________________.

An object with more mass feels _________________ than an object with less mass.

An object with more volume takes up _________________ space.

7. Circle the object in each pair that you think has MORE MASS:

a) A feather OR A book

b) A marble OR A basketball

c) A paper clip OR A pencil

d) A cotton ball OR A rock

🔬 Part 3: Investigation and Thinking

8. You have two boxes that look exactly the same size. One contains feathers and one contains rocks. How could you tell which box has more mass without opening them?

9. Draw and label an object from your home that is matter. Then describe its mass and volume using the words: large, small, heavy, light.

My object is: _______________________________

Its mass is: ________________________________

Its volume is: ______________________________

10. Explain in your own words why air is considered matter, even though we can't see it.

Introduction to Matter

Introduction to Matter

📚 Part 1: Understanding Matter

✏️ Part 2: Properties of Matter

🔬 Part 3: Investigation and Thinking

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