Activity Overview
In this lesson, students will use a simulation to observe the law of conservation of matter.
Objectives
- Students will observe the mass of a system before and after a chemical reaction to explore the law of conservation of matter.
- Students will explore how the number of particles in a chemical reaction is conserved.
Vocabulary
- conservation
- energy
- matter
- atom
- chemical reaction
- subatomic particle
- proton
- neutron
- electron
- mass
- compound
About the Lesson
In this lesson, students will use a simulation to observe the law of conservation of matter.
As a result, students will:
- Observe the mass of an open and closed system before and after a chemical reaction.
- Calculate and compare the number of subatomic particles in a system before and after a chemical reaction.
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