Rearrange Matter

This picture shows a string of five beads a student made. If the student uses only the beads in the picture, which of these strings can be made?

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What is the best reason for taking apart a structure?

• A. To throw the pieces away.

• B. To use the pieces to create something different.

• C. To break things for fun.

• D. To make the pieces disappear.

What is one reason builders use small pieces to make big things?

• A. They can only build one thing.

• B. They cannot be unchanged.

• C. They are struck together forever.

• D. They can take them apart and rebuild if needed.

A student uses a toy building set to make a race car. What else can the student make using only the same parts?

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To take pieces apart.

• Disassemble

• Pieces

• Variety

• Set

What is rearrange?

• To put pieces together.

• Different things that go together.

• To change the position of something.

• Different things that go together.

What is something you cannot do with linking cubes?

• Build different shapes.

• Take them apart.

• Eat them.

• Stack them.