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supported by the National Science Foundation
content provider: the The Science House: NC State University

PRISMS is a collection of reviewed phenomena and representations for middle school science. This page features a classroom demonstration that illustrates the Law of Conservation of Mass: no matter how substances within a closed system interact with one another, the total mass of the system remains the same. In this demo, steel wool is placed in a flask, covered by a balloon, and the mass is measured before and after the steel wool rusts.

Editor's Note: The key elements of PRISMS are the professional reviews that accompany each digital resource. The resource is evaluated for its quality, alignment to national science standards, scope, and appropriateness for the grade level intended. PRISMS database topics include astronomy, biology, earth science, structure of matter, energy, force and motion, and ecology.

http://prisms.mmsa.org/review.php?rid=262&cat=5

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
General Physics - Properties of Matter Other Sciences - Chemistry	- Middle School - High School	- Instructional Material = Best practice = Laboratory = Lecture/Presentation = Lesson/Lesson Plan

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2008 Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance
Keywords:: chemical reactions, chemistry demonstration, closed system, conservation of mass, conservation of matter, middle school science, peer reviewed materials, standards-based materials, systems
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created April 28, 2011 by Caroline Hall
Record Updated:: April 28, 2011 by Caroline Hall
Last Update when Cataloged:: May 9, 2009
Other Collections:: The Physics Front

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AAAS Benchmark Alignments (2008 Version)

1. The Nature of Science

1B. Scientific Inquiry

6-8: 1B/M1b. Scientific investigations usually involve the collection of relevant data, the use of logical reasoning, and the application of imagination in devising hypotheses and explanations to make sense of the collected data.

4. The Physical Setting

4D. The Structure of Matter

6-8: 4D/M6b. An important kind of reaction between substances involves the combination of oxygen with something else—as in burning or rusting.
6-8: 4D/M7a. No matter how substances within a closed system interact with one another, or how they combine or break apart, the total mass of the system remains the same.
6-8: 4D/M7b. The idea of atoms explains the conservation of matter: If the number of atoms stays the same no matter how the same atoms are rearranged, then their total mass stays the same.

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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=11171">The Science House: NC State University, and National Science Foundation. PRISMS: Conservation of Matter. Augusta: Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance, May 9, 2009.</a>

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