E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Scotland Kilt Store: Classify by Property
Mr. Wallace owns a store and needs help sorting items in his shop. Help him explore properties of common objects.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Gases
Students are asked to describe the reason the balloons rise and what that means for the gas properties.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Matter
Students will use water and cornstarch to make a mystery matter, and then discuss what happens when different energy is applied.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Matter
Step into Dirtmeister's Science Lab as he explores the challenge question: "How can you force a physical change in matter?" Learn about matter, make your predictions and then do the experiment.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Light, Matter, Energy
Learn how Einstein revolutionized how we think about light, matter, and energy by asking challenging questions and questioning old ideas.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Matter
This Study Card stack enables students to review the concepts of matter, the kinds and classes of mater including atoms, molecules, elements, compounds, pure substance, and mixtures.
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Getting Started in Chemistry
With the subtitle, "stuff you should know before delving too far into Chemistry," this site examines a range of six topics to provide the user with a broader understanding of chemistry.
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: La Materia
In this site you can learn and experiment with matter properties and change in behavior. Every theoretical explanation is accompanied by an animation. You will be able to aply the theory to real experiments.
Museum of Science
The Atom's Family: Radiometer
Help Dracula find out about light waves by using a virtual radiometer.
Royal Society of Chemistry
Royal Society of Chemistry: Learn Chemistry: Resources for Students
Search from over two thousand chemistry resources for students. Options allow user to refine search to pinpoint the exact resource needed. Includes presentations, videos, worksheets, quizzes, experiments, games, tutorials, and more.
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: La Dinamica De Los Ecosistemas
This unit shows how ecosystems change over time and how matter and energy, which are essential to its operation, are transformed and passed from one living thing to another forming, in some cases, authentic cycles. It contains 19...
Purdue University
Purdue: Department of Chemistry: States of Matter
Educational site highlights the three states of matter as well as provides microscopic views.
Crescent Public Schools
The Internet Science Room: Chemistry Class Introduction
This introduction to chemistry class reviews some major concepts to help prepare students for a high school chemistry course.
Crescent Public Schools
The Internet Science Room: The Kinetic Theory & Phase Change
This tutorial helps students understand the Kinetic Theory, which explains the effects of temperature and pressure on matter as it goes through phase changes.
Math Science Nucleus
I. Science Ma Te: Integrating Science, Math and Technology
This site offers a wealth of online textbook-related materials that encourage the discovery of science in the world around us. Enter the site to access material on specific topics. Each section contains reading material (complete with...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Cosmic Rays Help Us Understand the Universe
Veronica Bindi explains what cosmic rays are, and how they transmit information about our universe from the great beyond. [4:40]
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Happened to Antimatter?
CERN scientist Rolf Landua returns to the seconds after the Big Bang to explain the disparity that allows humans to exist today. [5:16]
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Matter
Students will be able to describe elements and compounds, and explain how mixtures differ from compounds.
Symmetry Magazine
Symmetry Magazine: Explain It in 60 Seconds: The Terascale
The terascale, described in this article, is a subatomic region that requires enormous amounts of energy in order to reach it. Scientists hope to be able to study it with the Large Hadron Collider. "Explain It In 60 Seconds" is an...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Materia
Explore the concept of matter in this Spanish-language encyclopedia entry. This site features the properties of matter, the Law of Conservation of Matter, and other important features of matter.
Other
The Ultimate Nature of Matter
Modern science is based on the idea of matter. This essay, by Alan Bradnam of the University of Sheffield (UK), discusses the impact of this idea on the world of science.
Other
English Montreal School: Chemical vs. Physical Changes: Elements vs. Compounds
A laboratory experiment where students classify matter into a homogenous mixture, heterogeneous mixture, solution, or pure substance. Also students will test for physical and chemical changes.
Other
Iun: Modern Atomic Theory
This is an excellent site with information on the discovery of the atom and the different models. Includes a sample question and answer using Planck's constant.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Technology Education: Technology: Engineering and Design
Glencoe offers the STEM Handbook which outlines the importance of science, technology, engineering, and math in opening many career pathways.