Changes in the Kitchen Reading

5th Grade SciencePhysical and Chemical Changes7 pages

About this worksheet

Leo and his dad cook a pancake breakfast in this 7-page 5th grade reading on physical and chemical changes. The passage runs over two pages and covers melting butter, mixing batter, baking powder making carbon dioxide bubbles, the pancakes browning and orange juice freezing into ice pops. Students then classify five events in a table with evidence from the text and answer seven more questions, from a multiple choice item to a true or false. Pages 6 and 7 hold the answer key.

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Changes in the Kitchen Reading: Physical and Chemical Changes - page 1

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Changes in the Kitchen Reading: Physical and Chemical Changes - page 7

Curriculum objectives covered

“Read a passage closely and use details from the text to classify changes as physical or chemical.”

Question 1 sets evidence from the text against five events, and questions 4 to 8 ask for text evidence, vocabulary and inference.

“Explain that a chemical change forms new substances that cannot easily be changed back, while a physical change can be reversed.”

Questions 5, 7 and 8 use freezing juice and a cooked pancake to test this.

What's inside this worksheet

The reading passage

Five paragraphs. The first defines physical and chemical change, and the rest follow breakfast: butter melting in a skillet, flour, milk and eggs whisked into batter, baking powder fizzing, pancakes browning and juice frozen into ice pops. A photo of pancakes on the stove sits beside the first paragraph.

Checking Your Understanding table

Students classify five kitchen events, from butter melting to juice freezing, as Physical or Chemical and copy evidence from the passage into two lines for each event.

Questions 2 to 6

A multiple choice question on the gas from baking powder, a vocabulary question on the word aroma, a copy-a-sentence question about the butter, a true or false on freezing juice, and an inference question about why the baking powder goes into the wet batter.

Questions 7 and 8

Two written responses. One asks whether a cooked pancake can turn back into batter. The other asks whether an ice pop melting back into juice proves anything about freezing.

Answer key

The completed table with evidence for each event, then model answers for questions 2 to 8, including the sentence about the butter to copy for question 4.

How teachers use it

Read it twice

Read the passage aloud once, then have students annotate on the second pass. Underline each change of state in one color and each new substance in another.

Do the table together

Work question 1 as a class and leave questions 2 to 8 for independent work. The evidence column shows who found the clues in the text and who guessed.

Aroma

Question 3 asks what aroma means. Ask students for a smell they know before they write, then let them use the words around it in the passage.

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