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Web ref.org: Oxygen

For Students 9th - 10th
Nice entry on oxygen, its properties, and uses including good links to all the terminology in the entry.
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Web Elements

Web Elements Periodic Table: Oxygen

For Students 9th - 10th
Very nice site with a great deal of excellent and helpful information on oxygen.
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Florida-Spectrum Environmental Services

Florida Spectrum: Chemical Fact Sheet: Oxygen

For Students 9th - 10th
Very thorough summary of detailed information on oxygen, its history, isotopes, properties, and applications.
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Environmental Chemistry

Environmental chemistry.com: Periodic Table Oxygen

For Students 9th - 10th
An incredibly thorough site with a wealth of basic information on oxygen. Highly recommended.
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Water on the Web: The Chemistry of Oxygen Solubility

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a description of oxygen solubility in water as it relates to temperature and pressure with introductory definitions and sample data to analyze. Animations require Shockwave plugin.
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Chemicool

Chemicool: Oxygen

For Students 9th - 10th
A set of tables summarizing all sorts of chemical and physical data on oxygen at this site from Chemicool.
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Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Oxygen (O)

For Students 3rd - 8th
Here you can find some great information about the 8th element in the periodic table, "oxygen." Content focuses on oxygen's electrons, where you can find oxygen in nature and in the home, and how oxygen combines with other elements.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Jason: Does Oxygen in the Water Matter

For Teachers 6th - 8th
JASON Aquatic Field Study: Explore how dissolved oxygen is one of the best indicators of the health of an aquatic ecosystem. Measure the dissolved oxygen level of a local aquatic site and explore how it affects water quality.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: How to Measure Dissolved Oxygen

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A general overview of dissolved oxygen and how it is measured. Also includes protocols for measuring dissolved oxygen in turbulent waters as well as using the Winkler titration method.
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Geography 4 kids

Geography4 kids.com: Bgc Cycles: Oxygen Cycle

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discover the process by which oxygen cycles through the ecosystem.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Oxygen's Surprisingly Complex Journey Through Your Body

For Students 9th - 10th
In the body, oxygen forms a vital role in the production of energy in most cells. Enda Butler tracks the surprisingly complex journey of oxygen through your body.
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Astrobiology Magazine: The Rise of Oxygen

For Students 9th - 10th
A look into what controls the rise of oxygen on the Earth and maybe on other planets as well.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Reaction Between Hydrogen and Oxygen Atoms

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore energy during a reaction between hydrogen and oxygen atoms.
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Hunkins Experiments

Hunkin's Experiments: How to Make Oxygen From a Battery

For Students 5th - 9th
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. This one...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Hydrogen Oxygen Rockets

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate how to build and launch a simple rocket that uses hydrogen and oxygen gases that will be mixed to propel the rocket. Students learn the principles of combustion reactions, kinetics, stoichiometry of reactions,...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Hydrogen and Oxygen Gas: An Explosive Interaction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lab provides the opportunity for young scholars to generate, collect, and test two very common gases, hydrogen and oxygen. They will test the combustion reaction of different proportions of the gases based on the most reactive...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Marine Oxygen Isotopes and Changes in Global Ice Volume

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore marine oxygen-isotope records for the past 2 million years using real paleoclimate data. They will discover trends in a time series pertaining to long-term ice volume changes.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Dissolved Oxygen

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use the Dissolved Oxygen Probe to measure the concentration of dissolved oxygen in water from streams and rivers. They correlate the availability of dissolved oxygen to temperature, pressure, and salinity.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Hydrogen Oxygen Reaction Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lab exercise exposes students to a potentially new alternative energy source-hydrogen gas. Student teams are given a hydrogen generator and an oxygen generator. They balance the chemical equation for the combustion of hydrogen gas...
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Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Video: Oxygen Transport

For Students 9th - 10th
A video animation showing how oxygen is brought to the cells in the body. Follow the oxygen as it is taken in by the lungs as gas and then transformed into solution and carried by hemoglobin throughout the body. Also learn how oxygen...
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The Science House: Production of Oxygen

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this experiment, students generate a gas, oxygen, and test its properties. Teacher notes are included.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Breathing

For Students 9th - 10th
Breathing shows an underwater scene and asks the students to answer the question, How do the people, fish and turtle get the oxygen they need?
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Aerobic Respiration

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides an indepth yet brief description of the oxygen dependent respiration with links to Kreb's cycle and Oxidative phosphorylation.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Anaerobic and Aerobic Respiration

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Do you know why oxygen is so important? Module provides a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of aerobic and anaerobic respiration and discusses the role...

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