

Matter is one of the big ideas in science.

Yet how do we define it? What does a block of cheese have in common with the Moon? What are the characteristics of matter that set it apart from something that is definitely not matter? What is matter? This question at first seems deceptively simple - matter is all around us. Begin to build a model that differentiates between solids, liquids, and gases.Understand some of the history behind the classification of matter.Differentiate between essential and accidental properties of matter.

