States of Matter
- 31 pages
- Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd
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About this resource
Solid, liquid or gas? This is a complete kit for the three states of matter, built for the table where children need different amounts of support. Children circle the state, find the word that does not belong, count the states in a tray, fill in the state, choose the true sentence and cut and glue words onto a sort mat. Every item is a printed word, so a child reads or hears the word and decides; there are no pictures to name. It comes with a tracker, a class grid and a family update, so nothing has to be written from scratch.
EVERYTHING INSIDE (31 pages)
- 16 student pages in 8 page types: Three States, My Matter Words, Circle the State, Which One Does Not Belong?, Count the States, Fill In the State, Circle the True Sentence, and Cut and Glue
- 74 scored items on 14 pages, every answer counted from the word lists, never typed by hand
- 25 different words sorted into solid, liquid and gas
- 34 cut-and-glue words on 4 sort mats (two mats with 8 words in two boxes, two mats with 9 words in three boxes)
- 2 answer keys, generated from the same data as the student pages
- 1 tracker (page, page type, items right, date) and 1 whole-class progress grid
- 1 team note (a hand-off page between team meetings) and 1 home page (looking for solids, liquids and gases at home)
- 1 filled example (an invented student), 1 phrase bank (16 observable-language starters), 1 binder cover and 6 divider tabs with a spine label to cut out
- Start Here and a how-to-read-a-page page
The Page Types, Easiest First
1. Three States (starting): solid, liquid and gas with what each one does (keeps its shape, pours, spreads out) and three example words, then the child writes a word of their own for each.
2. My Matter Words (starting): a word mat for the three states to keep beside the child, with a box for a word they think of.
3. Circle the State, 3 pages (1 dot): circle every solid, every liquid or every gas in a row of six words, then write how many. One page for each state.
4. Which One Does Not Belong?, 2 pages (2 or 3 dots): four words, one is a different state. Set A circles it and writes its number; Set B also writes what the other three are.
5. Count the States, 2 pages (2 dots): eight words in a tray. Count the solids, liquids and gases, then think of two more words for each.
6. Fill In the State, 2 pages (2 or 3 dots): Set A gives a word ("The milk is a ..."); Set B gives a clue sentence and the child writes solid, liquid or gas.
7. Circle the True Sentence, 1 page (2 dots): three sentences about one word; exactly one is true.
8. Cut and Glue, 4 pages (1 or 3 dots): a big sort mat with a labeled box for each state and a strip of words that touch edge to edge, so cutting is a few straight lines. Two mats sort into two boxes; two sort into three.
Words Only, No Guesswork
The words are everyday ones: rock, spoon, book, milk, juice, water, air, helium and more. No word is in two states, so every item has one right answer. A state is told by what it does, never by how warm or cold something is, and there is no temperature in the file at all.
Built For The Child Holding The Page
A big "My name" line, one short instruction, large rounded type, big answer boxes, and dots (not words or colors) to show which level a page is. Nothing on a student page is written for an adult. The file prints clean in black and white.
No Guessing The Answer
Wherever a child picks among printed spots (which words in a row match, which word is the odd one, which lettered sentence is true, the order of the words on the cut strip), the position of the right answer is checked so it does not sit in the same spot three times in a row.
Type In, Or Print
The name line and every answer box are type-in fields in any PDF reader: click one, type, then save. The same goes for the tracker, the class grid, the team note and the home page. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.
Who This Is For
Kindergarten through 2nd grade classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms, and any teacher building early science vocabulary into a center, a small group or a morning work folder.
What This Is, And What It Is Not
A states-of-matter worksheet set with the record-keeping around it. It is not a timed test, a screener, a clinical tool, or a claim about any student's age or rate of progress. There is no IEP goal language or eligibility wording anywhere in the file.
