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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Chemistry: Kinetics and Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 10th
Through interactive activities in a module format, students learn about kinetics, collision theory, reaction rates, and rate laws. They will calculate rate laws from experimental data, concentration and time, and half-life of a reaction....
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Other

The Organometallic Hyper Text Book: Olefin Metathesis

For Students 9th - 10th
Rearrangements of alkene with transition metal complexes. Includes information on catalysts, mechanisms and other similar polymerizations.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Catalytic Converters: Chemistry of Air Pollution

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this cooperative worksheet young scholars will see how catalysts inside catalytic converters speed up the oxidation of fuel and lessen the air pollution from cars.
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Curated OER

Schrock Catalysts

For Students 9th - 10th
Rearrangements of alkene with transition metal complexes. Includes information on catalysts, mechanisms and other similar polymerizations.
Graphic
Curated OER

Ru Catalysts

For Students 9th - 10th
Rearrangements of alkene with transition metal complexes. Includes information on catalysts, mechanisms and other similar polymerizations.
Interactive
Concord Consortium

The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Catalyzed Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the purpose of catalysts in chemical reactions and how they affect the reaction pathways.
Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Jazz and Ww Ii: A Rally to Resistance, a Catalyst for Victory

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson plan that teaches the roles that jazz music and jazz musicians played in the war effort and that demonstrates the effect that the war had on jazz in America.
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: 4 Uses of Potassium Chlorate

For Students 9th - 10th
Potassium chlorate acts as a catalyst to produce oxygen. Read about some of its uses, including in fireworks and as a water disinfectant.
Handout
Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Biochemistry: Enzymes

For Students 5th - 9th
This tutorial takes a brief look at enzyme activity and how enzymes work as catalysts.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Perestroika

For Students 9th - 10th
In these revelations from Russian archives, perestroika is explained. Mikhail Gorbachev's program of economic, political, and social restructuring, became the unintended catalyst for dismantling the totalitarian state. Also contains...
Article
National Institutes of Health

Ncbi: Amino Acids Are Linked by Peptide Bonds to Form Polypeptide Chains

For Students 9th - 10th
Proteins are linear polymers formed by linking the a-carboxyl group of one amino acid to the a-amino group of another amino acid with a peptide bond. The formation of a dipeptide from two amino acids is accompanied by the loss of a water...
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PBS

Pbs: Independent Lens: Strange Fruit: Protest Music Past and Present

For Students 9th - 10th
Listen to audio clips of songs of protest from eight eras of U.S. history. Explore the lyrics, learn about the songwriters, and gather background information on the music that served and continues to serve as a catalyst for thought,...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream"

For Students 9th - 10th
On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a speech to hundreds of thousands of Americans at what is known as the March on Washington. This now-famous speech was both an apex and catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement in...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Reaction Mechanisms

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students describe how the elementary steps of a chemical reaction combine to produce the overall reaction mechanism, and identify intermediates and catalysts when...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Making a Living in Gold and Cattle

For Students 11th - 12th
In this section, students will learn about the major discoveries and developments in western gold, silver, and copper mining in the mid-nineteenth century. They will be able to explain why the cattle industry was paramount to the...
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Virginia Historical Society

Virginia Historical Society: The Portent: John Brown's Raid in American Memory

For Students 9th - 10th
Online companion of an exhibition mounted in 2009 to commemorate the anniversary of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry examines Brown's role as a catalyst of the American Civil War.
Lesson Plan
British Library

British Library: 20th Century Teaching Resources: Sylvia Plath's the Bell Jar

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
These activities will provide students with an introduction to Plath that will inform their study of "The Bell Jar". They will examine the perspectives offered by two of Plath's short autobiographical prose pieces, and will also explore...
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Environmental Education for Kids

Eek!: En Espanol

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is the Spanish version of Environmental Education for Kids (EEK!). It provides student-friendly content that teachers can use as a catalyst to connect, explore, and engage in learning outside. It is designed for upper elementary and...
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Biology Pages

Kimball's Biology Pages: Enzymes

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a good page for explaining the development and function of enzymes. It includes links to help with the chemistry and the biology that comes up.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Activation Energy Kickstarting Chemical Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
Chemical reactions are constantly happening in your body - even at this very moment. But what catalyzes these important reactions? Vance Kite explains how enzymes assist the process, while providing a light-hearted way to remember how...
Activity
University of Arizona

The Biology Project: Energy, Enzymes, and Catalysis Problem Set

For Students 9th - 10th
How well do you know the relationship between enzymes and activation energy? This resource provides you with short quizzes and tutorials to provide feedback for those topics you don't understand.
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Macmillan Education

W.h. Freeman Publishing: Allosteric Regulation of Enzyme

For Students 9th - 10th
Reactions in cells must be regulated and one way to do this is using allosteric molecules. These regulators can activate enzymes or inhibit them. This tutorial explains exactly how allosteric regulation works using words, narration, and...
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: I Love Ice Cream, but It Doesn't Love Me: Lactose Intolerance

For Students 6th - 8th
Pizza, milk shakes, and ice cream sundaes all contain dairy products, therefore they cannot be eaten by the majority of people around the world. Dairy products contain the sugar molecule lactose, and the majority of people on the planet...
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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Chapter 6: Chemical Change

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Twelve interactive chemistry lessons about chemical changes complete with handouts and animations.

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