What Can We Observe About Solids?

1st Grade

How are paper, scissors, and a globe the same?

They are all solids!!

A solid is a kind is a kind of matter that keeps its shape. It keeps its shape even when you move it.

When you mix different kinds of matter together, you make a mixture.

A mixture is made up of two or more things.

The image is an example of a mixture.

The things in a mixture do not change.

You can sort them out of the mixture again.

You can measure solids.

You can measure

how long a solid is.

That is its length.

You measure

length with a ruler.

You can also measure the mass of a solid.

Mass is the amount of matter a solid has.

You measure mass with a

balance.

What are solids? What is a mixture? What is length? What is mass? What is a mixture

made up of? What are two ways

you can measure solids?