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This document discusses different materials and their properties related to absorbing water, floating, sinking, decaying, and being porous or non-porous. It includes pictures and tables labeling materials in categories based on these properties, along with guide questions about the observations and vocabulary. Activities are described where students observe, sort, and identify characteristics of various materials.

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Answer Key

This document discusses different materials and their properties related to absorbing water, floating, sinking, decaying, and being porous or non-porous. It includes pictures and tables labeling materials in categories based on these properties, along with guide questions about the observations and vocabulary. Activities are described where students observe, sort, and identify characteristics of various materials.

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Picture A - Materials that absorb and do not


absorb water Table 1- Activity 1:
Materials that Materials that Do What happened Absorb or
Absorbs Water not Absorb Water Materials when you do not
cotton rubber ball squeezed absorb
face towel plastic bottles
t-shirt rubber ball Water moves out
Picture B - Materials that float and sink cotton balls Water moves out
Materials that Materials that t-shirt Water moves out
Float Sink
rubber ball stone face towel Water moves out
styrofoam metal spoon
toy boat made of rug Water moves out
wood
plastic
No water x
Picture C - Materials that decay and do not decay bottle
glass No water x
Materials that Materials that Do
Guide Questions:
Decay Not Decay
1. Answer will vary
camote leaves plastic bottles 2. Water
leftover food plastic 3. Porous materials (cotton, face towel,
broken glass t-shirt, rug)
4. The materials that absorbed water are
cotton balls, t-shirt, face towel and rug.
They have small holes that allow air or
liquid to pass through.
ACTIVITY 2.
a. absorb d. sink
b. porous e. float
c. non-porous f. decay Name of Characteristics
objects
Float Sink
rubber ball
styrofoam
stones x
metal spoon x
pencil
Guide Questions:
1. Rubber ball, styrofoam, pencil
2. Stones and metal spoon
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Table3. Activity 3 ACTIVITY 2. Float or Sink
-answers may vary
Characteristics
Materials
Decay Do not Decay ACTIVITY 3. Decay or Do not Decay
camote leaves x 1. blue 6. green
2. green 7. green
plastic bottles x
3. blue 8. blue
left over foods x 4. green 9. green
5. green 10. blue
plastics x
banana peelings x ACTIVITY 4. Vocabulary
1. b
2. d
Guide questions: 3. a
-answers may vary 4. c
5. e
1. Matter can absorb or do not absorb water,
float or sink and can decay or do not decay.
2. answer may vary absorb, float, sink, decay
3. answer may vary
4. sunlight, water, soil and microorganism
5. answer may vary
a. answer may vary
b. answer may vary
c. answer may vary
ACTIVITY 1. Is it Porous or Non-Porous?
Material Porous Non-
Porous
rubber balls 1. Non-porous
cotton balls 2. Porous
sponge 3. True
4. absorb
face towel
5. true
t-shirt
rug FACT OR BLUFF
tissue paper 1. bluff
2. fact
manila paper 3. fact
styrofoam 4. fact
curtain 5. fact
a. answer will vary
b. answer will vary
c. answer will vary

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