# Particle Model Maze

In Grade 5 science, you learn about the particle model of matter ([Outcome](https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/36473)). This model helps you understand how tiny particles make up everything around you. Particles are always moving. They have spaces between them. The way particles are arranged and how they move explains why things look and act the way they do in solids, liquids, and gases ([Details](https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/36475)).

## How to play

- Start at the marked entrance and draw one path through the open corridors to the marked exit without crossing a wall.
- Each time you pass through a cell that carries a word, read it and write it down in order. The right route passes 4 words; the grey words sit in dead ends.
- The shortest path passes through 109 cells. The answer key shows the route and the 4 words in order.

## The maze

![Maze](https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/api/generate/3a216833-478e-45de-b24a-0adc97ebd58f/asset/1928)

## Answer key

![Maze solution](https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/api/generate/3a216833-478e-45de-b24a-0adc97ebd58f/asset/1930)

Path: right 1, down 1, left 1, down 6, right 2, up 1, right 2, up 1, left 1, up 1, left 2, up 2, right 1, down 1, right 2, up 1, right 1, up 1, right 2, up 1, right 2, down 3, right 1, down 2, right 3, up 1, left 1, up 1, left 1, up 1, right 1, up 1, right 1, down 2, right 2, down 1, left 1, down 2, right 1, down 1, left 1, down 1, right 1, down 1, left 2, down 1, left 2, up 1, right 1, up 2, left 5, down 8, right 1, up 2, right 1, up 2, right 1, down 3, left 1, down 1, right 2, up 1, right 2, down 1, right 1, up 1, right 1, down 1

The words you will find on the correct path, in order, are: particle, density, volume, vibrate.

The correct path passes through these four words in order: particle, density, volume, vibrate.

The extra words that are not on the correct path are: compress, solid, expansion, buoyancy, viscosity, liquid.

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*AILI game · language en · model claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 · generated 2026-09-17 · id 3a216833-478e-45de-b24a-0adc97ebd58f*

### Sources

- node:n1: Matter: Understandings of the physical world are deepened by investigating matter and energy. (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/36471)
- node:n2: How can states of matter and other physical properties be explained using the particle model of matter? (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/36472)
- node:n3: Students investigate the particle model of matter in relation to the physical properties of solids, liquids, and gases. (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/36473)
- node:n4: Details (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/36475)
- node:n5: Matter: Understandings of the physical world are deepened by investigating matter and energy. (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/36575)
- node:n6: How can the particles of matter be influenced by heating or cooling? (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/36576)
- node:n7: Students investigate how particles of matter behave when heated or cooled and analyze effects on solids, liquids, and ga (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/36577)
- node:n8: Details (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/36579)
- node:n9: Unit A: Mix and Flow of Matter (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/17299)
- node:n10: Outcomes for Science, Technology and Society (STS) and Knowledge (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/17300)
- node:n11: *Students will:* Investigate and compare the properties of gases and liquids; and relate variations in their viscosity,  (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/17303)