Particle nature of matter resources

Using provided data students decide which of three liquids would freeze if placed in a freezer. Students explain what happens to particles when they freeze and how the level changes due to freezing.

Task: Students draw a picture of a burning candle to show changes that occur. Assessment focus: representing the way particles behave when material undergoes temporary and permanent changes.

Students answer one multiple-choice question about how the mass of a burning object changes.

Students are given diagrams representing the three states of matter. Students answer four questions relating to these.

Students are provided with a graph of the heating curve for octane. Students use this to answer questions about state, temperatures, and changes of state.

Task: Draw what happens when sugar is added to a cup of coffee. Assessment focus: dissolving.

Task: Students draw to show their ideas about what happens when a puddle dries up. Assessment focus: evaporation.

Students draw a graph from some information they are given about the heating of meths in a water bath. Students then explain in terms of particles what is happening for the sloping section and the flat section of the graph.

Students decide whether four statements about particular nature of matter are true or false and then give a reason for their answer.

Students draw diagrams to show the particle arrangement in a solid, liquid, and a gas. Students then describe the differences in arrangement and movement of the particles for each of these states.

Students demonstrate their knowledge of solid, liquid, and gas particles by drawing the particle arrangement for wax vapour, molten wax, and candle wax.

Students answer questions about the size of a balloon as the air temperature changes. The resource assesses students' understanding of the effect of temperature on gases.

Students decide if each of three sentences about solids, liquids, and gases is true or false and then give a reason for their answer.