grade 3 science lesson by Mrs. Aisha

1. Chapter 8 Lesson 1
What is
?matter

2. Matter
Everywhere

3. Everything you can see, smell, or
touch is matter.
Many things that you cannot see,
smell, or touch are matter too.
Air is an example of matter you
sometimes cannot see, smell, or
.touch

4. Matter is anything that takes up
space and has mass. You can feel
the mass of objects as weight
.when you pick them up

5. When you blow up a balloon, you
see that . even air takes up space

6. The hockey puck and volleyball look
different, but . they are both matter
Hockey puck volleyball

7. Properties of
Matter

8. Property is something about matter
that you can observe with one or
.more of your senses

9. Some properties of matter are
size
shape

10. color
texture
hardness

11. A basketball might be large,
.round, orange, bumpy, and hard

12. Bumpy and smooth describe an
object’s texture.
Texture is how an object feels
.to the touch

13. Hardness describes how firm an
.object
Inflated basketball

14. The properties of an object depend in
part on the materials it is made from.
Wood, plastic, rubber, and
metals

15. Tennis ball and a basketball make
different sounds when they bounce.
This is partly because they are made
from different materials with
.different properties

16. Your sense of smell tells you
about . another property – odor