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Activity 3.1

Aim: To create a PowerPoint presenta on on ‘Classifi ca on of Ma er’

Create a PowerPoint presenta on on ‘Classifi ca on of Ma er’ giving examples. Insert related images
using the Internet.

Activity 3.2

Aim: To list the substances that can be made using the given materials

A number of objects can be made from a single material. Write fi ve substances which can be made from
the following materials.
• Plas c • Paper • Cloth

• Wood • Rubber • Metal

PROPERTIES OF MATTER

The food we eat, the water we drink and the air that we breathe are ma er. So what isn’t ma er? Anything
that does not occupy mass and space is not ma er. Our feelings, heat and light, etc. are not ma er. Now
let’s study the proper es of ma er.

Matter has Mass

Mass is the quan ty of ma er contained in a substance. More in the amount of ma er in an object, more
would be its mass. Let’s perform Ac vi es 3.3 and 3.4 to observe that ma er has mass.

Activity 3.3

Aim: To observe that ma er has mass

Materials required: 2 balloons, a long thread, a metre scale, a needle
Procedure

• Take two balloons.
meter scale
• Blow air in the balloons and e
their ends with long threads of
equal lengths.
• Take a meter scale and suspend infl ated bursted
the balloons at its two ends. balloons balloon infl ated

• Make a loop with a thread in balloon
the centre of the scale and
balance the scale as shown in the fi gure given alongside.
• Now prick one of the balloons with a needle.

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