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Classify Mystery Substance: Grade 4 Science

This document provides a GRASPS unit on classifying an unknown substance as a solid, liquid, or gas through experimentation. Students will take on the role of a scientist tasked by their boss to design and conduct an experiment to identify a mystery substance. They must submit a lab report with their procedure, observations, and conclusion on the substance's state of matter. The goal is to effectively classify the unknown using their senses, with differentiation options available for students as needed.

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Classify Mystery Substance: Grade 4 Science

This document provides a GRASPS unit on classifying an unknown substance as a solid, liquid, or gas through experimentation. Students will take on the role of a scientist tasked by their boss to design and conduct an experiment to identify a mystery substance. They must submit a lab report with their procedure, observations, and conclusion on the substance's state of matter. The goal is to effectively classify the unknown using their senses, with differentiation options available for students as needed.

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GRASPS

UNIT: MATTER
SUBJECT: Science – Grades 4

ESSENTIAL QUESTION(s):
• What role does matter have in the universe?

G R A S P S
Goal:

Goal Design and perform an experiment effectively to classify the


mystery substance.

Role:

You are a scientist and have been given a mystery


substance by your mad scientist boss (teacher) who has
Role managed to mix up all of the labels.

Individual or Group Assignment (Based on student strength


and needs).

Audience:
Audience
Your mad scientist boss (teacher).

Situation:

Solve the mystery by designing an experiment to classify


Situation
the mystery substance as either a solid, liquid, or gas. Focus
on identifying properties of matter using your senses
(except taste!).

North Vancouver School District | Matter – Mysterious Substance | GRASPS



Performance or Product:

You will submit your lab report to your mad scientist boss.
It will include the procedure you used to classify the state of
your mysterious substances.

Please include a hypothesis before you begin your


experiment.
Performance
Please include your observations in a table format and
or Product
explain any patterns that you found.

Finally, you may make a inference/conclusion to classify


the state of the mysteriy substance.

In your journal, you can write changes that were made to


your original hypothesis during the process of conducting
your experiment as you gathered more information.

Standards:

Your lab report should include all components (hypothesis,


procedure, observations, data, inference/conclusions).

You will also include a journal where you will write about
your thoughts and ideas (as they may progressively change)
Standards
during the experiment.

Criteria is written on left sidebar.

North Vancouver School District | Matter – Mysterious Substance | GRASPS



Differentiation:

As per individual needs, students who require assistance


will be given a basic outline of procedures that they might
choose to use when designing their experiment. Also, they
can have the option of a few different labels of possible
mystery substances to help them narrow down the
classification of the mystery substance. Students may
Differentiation
record, use a scribe, type, or use visuals to create their lab
report as necessary. According to the needs, students may
also work in pairs/groups.

Extension: Students can predict the identity of the item and


inquire into its properties (boiling point, melting point,
freezing point).

North Vancouver School District | Matter – Mysterious Substance | GRASPS

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