Summary
At the seashore, the water keeps moving up and down the beach — the kids discover tides and how creatures in tide pools handle the change. Then a batch of homemade slime behaves like a liquid AND a solid, and the friends investigate its strange properties.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
The ocean moves on a schedule, and slime breaks the rules.
- What did the kids notice about where the water reached during the day?
- How do tide pool animals survive when the water goes out?
- How did the slime act like a liquid? Like a solid?
- What other materials are hard to sort as solid or liquid?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: tide, tide pool, solid, liquid, property.
Try it: Mix cornstarch and water and test it: squeeze fast, then let it drip. Record what it does.
Try it: Sort five classroom objects into solid or liquid — is any one tricky?