5th grade chemical and physical change
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This quiz focuses on chemical and physical changes in matter, a fundamental topic in elementary science that builds students' understanding of how materials behave and transform. The content is appropriately designed for 5th grade students, requiring them to distinguish between changes that alter the molecular structure of substances (chemical changes) versus those that only affect appearance or state while maintaining the same molecular composition (physical changes). Students need to understand that physical changes like cutting hair, shredding paper, boiling water, and dissolving salt are reversible processes that don't create new substances, while chemical changes such as lighting matches, rotting bananas, cooking eggs, and burning wood involve chemical reactions that produce entirely new materials. The quiz also introduces students to chemical and physical properties, requiring them to recognize signs of chemical reactions including gas formation, color changes, and light production, while understanding that properties like flammability indicate how substances will chemically behave under certain conditions. This quiz was created by a classroom teacher who designed it for students studying chemical and physical changes in 5th grade. The assessment serves multiple instructional purposes, functioning effectively as a formative assessment tool to gauge student understanding, a review activity before summative testing, or homework practice to reinforce classroom learning about matter and its transformations. Teachers can use this quiz as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge or as guided practice during direct instruction on states of matter and chemical reactions. The variety of everyday examples—from cooking eggs to crushing cans—helps students connect scientific concepts to real-world experiences, making abstract ideas more concrete and memorable. This quiz aligns with NGSS 5-PS1-4, which requires students to conduct investigations to determine whether mixing substances results in new substances, and supports the cross-cutting concept of patterns in science by helping students recognize the consistent signs that indicate when chemical versus physical changes occur.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
Is cutting your hair an chemical or physical change?
physical property
physical change
chemical property
chemical change
non of the above
Tags
NGSS.MS-PS1-2
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
is lighting a match a physical change?
yes
no
non of the above
Tags
NGSS.MS-PS1-2
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
what is a banana that is rotting
both physical and chemical change
physical change
chemical change
non of above
Tags
NGSS.MS-PS1-2
NGSS.MS-LS1-7
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
what is cooking an egg?
chemical change
both physical change and chemical change
neither
physical change
Tags
NGSS.MS-PS1-2
NGSS.MS-LS1-7
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is shredding paper
chemical change
physical change
neither
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
boiling water
physical change
chemical change
non of above
Tags
NGSS.MS-PS1-2
NGSS.MS-PS1-4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
crushing a can
physical change
chemical change
non of the above
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