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OpenStax

Open Stax: Structural Organization of the Human Body

For Students 9th - 10th
Try considering the structures of the body in terms of fundamental levels of organization that increase in complexity: subatomic particles, atoms, molecules, organelles, cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organisms and biosphere....
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Fifth Grade Science: Physical Science: Types of Matter

For Students 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses elements, atoms, compounds, molecules, and crystals. Looks at mixture and different types of them.
Interactive
Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: Chirality Chemistry 2001

For Students 9th - 10th
In 2001 the Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded for work with Chiral molecules. These molecules can be used to control the speed of chemical reactions. This brief game teaches the basic principles of chirality.
Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Ion

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is an encyclopedia article from the Wikipedia Encyclopedia on Ion. Throughout the site, links are provided for additional information. The information is somewhat in-depth, but also very factual and interesting.
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Other

Particle Adventure Dutch Version

For Students 9th - 10th
Dutch version of the well-known "Particle Adventure" physics website that teaches students about atoms, mass, particle physics, and quantum physics. The site discusses theories related to physics and provides other links related to the...
Handout
Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Chemical Composition

For Students 9th - 10th
Chemical composition is a section of a larger overview on Chemistry, covering a variety of aspects. This section focuses on elements, atoms, compounds, and structure. Examples, formulas, and pictures are provided.
Website
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Viaje Al Interior De La Materia

For Students 9th - 10th
These interactive materials will help you to understand how matter is made up and will help you expand your knowledge on matter. You will find an evaluation at the end.
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Other

Beautiful Chemistry: Beautiful Structures: Quasicrystals

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive display of quasicrystals allows students to study the inner components and molecular make-up of these structures. Since the discovery of quasicrystals, a lot of efforts have been put on finding the locations of atoms...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Plastic Polymers: Investigating Their Flexibility

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars will use their prior knowledge about changes of matter to develop a hypothesis to test the physical properties of materials such as plastic (polymers) and how its chemical properties allow it to have unique physical...
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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: 3 D Carbon Monoxide Molecule

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a computer generated 3D image of a carbon monoxide molecule. Carbon monoxide contains one carbon atom and one oxygen atom. It is an odorless gas that is highly toxic to humans.
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Utah STEM Foundation

Utah Stem Action Center: Smoke in a Bottle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will learn how complete and incomplete combustion is different and also how the products affect us.
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Study Chirality With a Homemade Polarimeter

For Students 9th - 10th
Some molecules can be either left- or right-"handed." The left- and right-handed molecules have the same number and type of atoms, and their chemical structures look identical, but they are actually mirror images of each other. Many...
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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: What Is Density?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Calculate the density of cubes made of different materials to determine what type of material it contains. Using this information explain that the size, mass, and arrangement of the atoms or molecules of a substance determines its density.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: What Is Matter?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Discover the composition of matter and the relationship between matter, atoms, and elements. Students will learn the differences between elements and compounds, and how molecules are formed. Chemical...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Biology: Chemistry of Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Through informational text, interactive activities, animations, and video clips, students examine the chemistry of living things, and they learn how interactions from atoms are fundamental to life as we know it.
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Chemical Bonds

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive activity developed for Teachers' Domain demonstrates how attractive forces between atoms create chemical bonds, resulting in the formation of molecules and compounds.
Website
Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1934

For Students 9th - 10th
At this website from The Nobel e-Museum, read about Harold Clayton Urey (1893-1981 CE), the chemist awarded with a Nobel Prize "for his discovery of heavy hydrogen." Download Urey's Nobel Lecture, "Some thermodynamic properties of...
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Chemical Bonds

For Students 9th - 10th
By working through this web-based activity, students differentiate between ionic, non-polar covalent, and polar covalent bonds. Specifically, distinctions are made between bonding types based on orbital shapes and electronegativity...
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National Institutes of Health

Ncbi: The Molecular Biology of the Cell: The Chemical Components of a Cell

For Students 9th - 10th
Advanced chapter of the book "The Molecular Biology of the Cell" describes and provides illustrations of our most current understanding of the chemical makeup of cells and their components. Explains in detail how electron activity keeps...
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: How Can a Small Spark Start a Huge Explosion?

For Students 9th - 10th
Students explore connections between electric forces and molecules using simulations, and explain energy transfers using conservation of energy. This concept will be explored in the following activities. Activity 1 What makes materials...
Article
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Nitrogen Oxides

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn interesting facts about nitrogen oxides, gases whose molecules are made of nitrogen and oxygen atoms and contribute to air pollution.
Graphic
Curated OER

Simon Fraser University: Molecules and the Properties of Bonded Atoms

For Students 9th - 10th
Water molecule, complete with coordinates.
Graphic
Curated OER

Simon Fraser University: Molecules and the Properties of Bonded Atoms

For Students 9th - 10th
Drawing of sucrose molecule -- table sugar. Colors show negative electrical potential on its molecular surface.
Graphic
Curated OER

Simon Fraser University: Molecules and the Properties of Bonded Atoms

For Students 9th - 10th
Drawing of a caffeine molecule. Hydrogen = white; Carbon = blue; Oxygen = red

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