Worksheet
Curated OER

Rocks Word Search Puzzle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this literacy worksheet, students look for the words that are related to the concept that is reviewed in the sheet. They also acquire new vocabulary.
Organizer
Curated OER

Hydrologic Cycle

For Students 4th - 5th
In this science worksheet, students examine the hydrological cycle through the coloring of the picture that graphically organizes the concept.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Science Word Search

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this science worksheet, students locate and identify various vocabulary terms related to earth science. There are 44 words/phrases located in the puzzle.
Activity
Other

King County Court House: Heating & Cooling Curves [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This page is a lab that will teach you about heating and cooling curves.
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Just Keep Cool How Evaporation Affects Heating and Cooling

For Students 9th - 10th
When we get hot, we sweat. The physiological role of sweat is to cool us down. When the water evaporates, it removes energy from our bodies. This sort of evaporative cooling can also be used to cool homes, using what are referred to as...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Heating and Cooling

For Students 2nd - 4th
A tutorial reviewing the states of matter and the effects of heating and cooling matter in the different states. (Note: some of the links may not load in the archived version of the site.)
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Changing the State of Matter Using Heating and Cooling

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, young scholars will investigate how different materials changed when heated or cooled. The process in developing the investigation will be inquiry based. Students will have the liberty in choosing the materials and...
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Greenland: How Can Heat and Cooling Change Materials?

For Students 1st - 3rd
Nanook wants to learn to cook. In order to cook, she first needs to learn how things can change when they are heated or cooled.
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix Series: Heating and Cooling Curves

For Students 10th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use the interactive cooling curve graph as a tool to answer two challenge questions about temperature change in the fossil fuel, Naphthalene.
Activity
American Chemical Society

Inquiry in Action: Changing the Density of a Liquid: Heating and Cooling

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will investigate whether the temperature of water affects its density. Students will place colored hot and cold water in a cup of room-temperature water to see that cold water sinks while hot water floats. Then...
Graphic
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Heating and Cooling a Liquid

For Students 9th - 10th
This simulation allows students to make observations about how particle motion changes as the overall temperature of a liquid changes.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Newton's Law of Cooling

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers come to see the exponential trend demonstrated through the changing temperatures measured while heating and cooling a beaker of water. This task is accomplished by first appealing to students' real-life heating and...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Hot Potato, Cool Foil

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore material properties by applying some basic principles of heat transfer. They use calorimeters to determine the specific heat of three substances: aluminum, copper and another of their choice. Each substance is cooled in...
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: North Sea: Denmark: What Happens When Materials Are Heated or Cooled?

For Students 3rd - 5th
Did you know that water has different states? Learn all about it with Boris in Copenhagen.
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Loch Ness: What Happens When Solids and Liquids Are Heated or Cooled?

For Students 3rd - 5th
Students will look at what happens to different types of matter when they have a change of state.
Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Cool Hot Rod

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity will show students how objects change size when heated and cooled. Students will observe a metal tube have expansion and contraction.
Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Acting Hot and Cold [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd
For this lesson, 3rd graders will explore heating and cooling through pantomime. By enacting the effect of sunlight on a snowman and a growing seed, students will learn scientific information kinesthetically.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Passive Solar Design

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are introduced to passive solar design for buildings--an approach that uses the sun's energy and the surrounding climate to provide natural heating and cooling. They learn about some of the disadvantage of conventional heating...
Lesson Plan
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Molecules in Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students observe, on a molecular level, how heating and cooling affect molecular motion.
Activity
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Grow Rock Candy

For Students 2nd - 5th
Students can carry out an investigation using sugar and water to determine whether heating or cooling a substance may cause changes that can be observed. This activity reinforces the ideas that the properties of materials can change when...
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Biology: Specific Heat, Heat of Vaporization, and Density of Water

For Students 9th - 10th
Why does ice float? In this article answer that question by learning about the topics of Specific heat capacity, evaporative cooling, and heat of vaporization of water.
Lesson Plan
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Air: It's Really There

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigation shows that gas takes up space and has mass, and that the motion of gas molecules is affected by heating and cooling.
Lesson Plan
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Temperature and Density

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Observe how heating and cooling affect the density of water. Combine the concepts of temperature, molecular motion, and density to learn that hot water is less dense than room temperature water and that cold water is more dense.
Lesson Plan
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Moving Molecules in a Solid

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners observe and describe, on the molecular level, how heating and cooling affect the motion of molecules in a solid.