Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. Science inquiry collection. This software, designed for grades 3 through 8, is a discovery learning simulation that allows students to use a variety of tools to test unknown matter for certain physical and chemical characteristics. In Matter Search, a robot assists in the testing, comparing, naming and reviewing of a specific matter. The testing tools are water, heat, cold, magnet, conductor, pH, and density.
Students then use the information they gather through the test to identify the mystery matter.
In Matter Maker, students can choose either a solid, liquid, or gas to be their mystery matter and apply given properties such as formula, status, state, water, melting point, boiling point, magnet, conductor, pH, density, radioactive, weight, and class to the matter. Other students are then given the opportunity to guess the mystery matter. The program also includes a teacher's information section that includes how to access and use teacher's options, strategies for classroom use of the program, student worksheets, and suggested follow up activities. The software supports AppleShare, Corvus, and Digicard networks. Matter. pH. Physical Science.