Some examples from ECLIPSE of what students have said relating to states of matter:
In a sponge, the particles are spread out more, so it can absorb more water
Iron is too heavy to evaporate (see also Iron turning into a gas sounded weird)
So if someone was stood here, we’d be a solid
When you vaporise something, it totally disappears
Evaporation is like fuming?: an example of a student-generated simile from the ASCEND enrichment project.
Condensing is like death?: an example of a student-generated analogy from the ASCEND enrichment project.
This is just one of a wide range of science topics that learners have talked about in ECLIPSE projects.
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Dr Keith S Taber kst24@cam.ac.uk
University of Cambridge Faculty of Education