What all activities take place around every day?

In your science diary with the changes

happening in your kitchen and surroundings?

Are there helpful and harmful ones among

then?

Are there natural changes or artificial changes?

Which are they?........

Changes

Natural changes Eg: Bud changes to flower Eg: Milk changes to curd

Babies grown up

Changes

Eg: Milk changes to curd Eg: decay of vegetables

Day turns to night Iron resting.

Artificial changes

Helpful changes Harmful changes

Change is the law of nature. We grow every minutes as our body

undergoes a change without which are cannot survive. Students

may be aware of various changes taking place in nature. Broadly

these changes are two types: Physical & Chemical changes

Activity- 1

Hold a used hack- saw blade with a pair of tongs. Keep the tip of the free end. On the flame of a gas stove. Wait for a few minutes. Remove the blade from the flame. Observe the tip once again after some time.

The hacksaw blade changed colour on heating and came back to the original colour.

• Properties such as shape, size, colour and state of a substance are called physical properties. A change in which a substance undergoes a change in its Physical properties is called a physical change.

Activity- 2

Get a small piece of a thin strip or ribbon of magnesium. Clean it up with sand paper. Bring the tip. Near a candle flame. It burns with a brilliant white light.

When it is completely burned it leaves behind a powdery ash.

A change in which a substance a change in its chemical properties

is called a chemical change.

CONCLUSION

Changes is the law of nature. We glow every minutes as our body undergoes a change without which are cannot survive. A change in which a substance undergo a change in its physical properties is called a physical change.

A change in which a substance undergo a change in its chemical properties is called a chemical change.