Liquids Around Us

Looking Around 2 — Healthy Food / Water. Water, milk, and drinks in Healthy Food and Water chapters show how liquids behave.

• Liquids take the shape of their container.
• Liquids flow and can be poured.
• Common liquids: water, milk, oil.

Verbal: A liquid flows and takes the shape of its container — pour milk and it fills the glass shape.

Symbolic: Liquid: no fixed shape, has level surface in open cup. Pour test → flows.

Level 1 — Properties

No fixed shape of their own; have level surface in open container.

Level 1 — Pouring test

You can pour milk from bottle to glass — it flows.

Level 1 — Examples

Level 2 — Solids vs liquids

Book keeps shape; water in cup becomes cup-shaped.

Level 2 — India

Lassi, chai, and dal — liquids we drink.

Why does juice take the shape of the glass?

Step 1 — Juice is a **liquid**.
Step 2 — Liquids have no fixed shape.
Step 3 — They take container's shape.
Answer: Liquids flow and fill the glass shape.

• Pour water — does it keep a cube shape?
• Name two liquids at home.
• Solid or liquid: honey (slow flow — still liquid)?

Stretch: Juice in a bottle vs juice poured in a bowl — same liquid, different shapes. Why?

Revision tip: Pour water between two different cups — watch the shape change while the amount stays the same.

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