Sarquis, Jerry L

Presents twenty-four toy-based activities for use in middle-school classrooms that teach science lessons about matter and the changes it can undergo, providing opportunities for students to explore matter in its three states--solid, liquid, and gas.

A collection of hands-on projects that use ordinary toys and play materials to demonstrate the principles of chemistry to students in kindergarten through ninth grade, addressing topics such as solubility, attraction and repulsion, permeability, and volatility, and including reproducible student worksheets.