Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Physical and Chemical Changes


A physical change is a change in size, shape or appearance but not in substance.  Some examples we witnessed were: ripping paper, flattening a ball of Play-doh, and a melting ice cube.  Above we are drawing a balloon before and after it is blown up.


We agreed that making chocolates from chocolate wafers was a physical change.  

We melted the wafers and poured it into candy molds with Halloween sprinkles.

Then we chilled the chocolate until it was hard.  The substance didn't change but the shape did- a physical change.

We broke pretzels to show physical change then...


crushed them and added milk to make a paste.  Since we mixed two or more substances to make a new substance, it was a chemical change.  We also examined burnt matches as an example of a chemical change. 

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