Installation Guide
19NOEO CHEMISTRY 1 INSTRUCTOR’S GUIDE
UNIT 2:WHAT MATTER IS
Week 2: Gloop and Oobleck
ScheduleSchedule
DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4
What’s the Matter in
Mr. Whiskers’ Room?
pp. 9–15, Water
Droppers
pp. 16–19, Gloop pp. 20–23, Oobleck
Experiment Guide
Gloop Oobleck
OverviewOverview
Last week, you learned about how to “do science”: the scientic method. Now, you
get to move on to asking (and answering) questions about the huge and wonderful
variety of “stuff” in our world. Noeo Chemistry 1 is really about one of the most ba-
sic questions: what is that (point at anything here) made of? But rst, there’s an even
more important question: how are liquids, solids, and gases different?
Reading QuestionsReading Questions
DAY 1
1. What is the big idea in Mr. Whiskers’ classroom? (see p. 15) Everything around us
is matter, and all matter takes up space.
DAY 2
1. What is the big idea in Mr. Whiskers’ classroom? We can nd out about matter by
using our senses.
2. What are the ve senses? The ve senses are touch, sight, hearing, smell, and
taste.
DAY 3
Experiment