Solid, Liquid, or Gas – States of Matter Sort

Solid, liquid, and gas examples — from a block and rain water to steam and helium in a balloon — are cut out and sorted across three linked worksheets with a full answer key.

Year groups: Years 3–4
Pages: 6
File type: PDF
Answer key: Included

Updated Jan 09, 2024

Subject: Basic Science, Earth Sciences, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Science
Topic: Solid, Liquid
Resource types: Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables
Answer key: Included

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About this resource

Solid Liquid or Gas Sorting Activity Printable

Pupils will examine various states of matter including solids, liquids, and gases. They will categorize the images to identify whether they represent a solid, liquid, or gas. Moreover, they will fill in sentences to describe the type of matter depicted.

Includes:

States of matter review/handout
Sorting activity
States of matter fill in the blanks
Answer key

This practice is great for intro or review on the subject of different states of matter. Include it in your lesson plan today!

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In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Classify everyday objects and substances as a solid, liquid, or gas.
Sort picture cards into the correct state-of-matter category.
Identify and write the correct state-of-matter term for a pictured example.

Teaching tips

Have students cut apart the 12 picture cards before sorting, since the sorting worksheet is designed to receive the cut-out cards.
Use the fill-in-the-blank page as a quick post-sort check, since it revisits the same solid/liquid/gas vocabulary with a different set of pictures.
Check completed work against the two included answer-key pages rather than re-deriving the correct classification for each item.

Skills covered

Matter classification — students sort 12 picture cards (e.g. rain water, helium in a balloon, a chair) into solid, liquid, and gas categories.
Vocabulary application — students write solid, liquid, or gas to label five additional pictured examples.
Cutting and sorting — students cut out picture cards and physically place them into the correct category on the worksheet.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How do the sorting activity and the fill-in-the-blank page differ?

The sorting activity uses twelve cut-out picture cards, such as a block, rain water, and soda, that get physically sorted into columns, while the fill-in-the-blank page presents five different pictured examples for students to label directly with the matching word.