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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Enzymes

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson, students will define enzyme, be able to discuss the role of enzymes in biochemical reactions, and summarize their importance to living organisms.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Basics of Enzyme Kinetics Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the basics of enzyme kinetics graphs, and see examples of the graphs to understand the valuable data that is found on the graph. [12 min, 29 sec]
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American Chemical Society

American Chemical Society: Hompage

For Students 9th - 10th
ChemCenter, available from the American Chemical Society, provides chemistry news, reference sources and other public services.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Chemical Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an overview of the role of energy in chemical reactions.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How to Speed Up Chemical Reactions (And Get a Date)

For Students 9th - 10th
This video explores by analogy what factors speed up reaction rates in chemical reactions. [4:56] Includes a brief quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Pangaea Pop Up

For Students 9th - 10th
Michael Molina discusses the catalysts and consequences of continental drift. [4:25]
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Other

Chemguide: Le Chatelier's Principle

For Students 9th - 10th
This page looks at Le Chatelier's Principle and explains how to apply it to reactions in a state of dynamic equilibrium. It covers changes to the position of equilibrium if you change concentration, pressure or temperature. It also...
Primary
US National Archives

Nara: A New Chemistry for Carbon

For Students 9th - 10th
This National Archives and Records Administration site describes the discovery of fullerenes, a new allotrope of carbon. The chemical properties of fullerenes, their uses, and possible potential as catalysts or superconductors is mentioned.
Primary
Other

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Unifinished Journey: Episode 9: First Space Ra [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Transcript of a televised documentary about Lewis and Clark explains why Alexander Mackenzie's Voyages from Montreal served as a catalyst for their cross-continental expedition.
Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Control a Haber Bosch Ammonia Plant

For Students 9th - 10th
An activity where students try to optimize profits by producing the largest daily output of ammonia by simulating the Haber-Bosch process. Students will use their knowledge of equilibrium reactions and the effects of variables like...
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Sinkholes in a Cup

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners simulate a sinkhole, and discover the geological catalysts that happen beofore sinkholes occur.
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Other

Asia/canada: Meeting of Cultures

For Students 9th - 10th
Asians immigrants have had to battle hardship and prejudice to make new lives for themselves in Canada. That path is described here as well as the defining moments that politicized Chinese Canadians and acted as catalysts towards...
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Made From Media

Made From History: What Time Was Archduke Franz Ferdinand Assassinated?

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief recollection of the events surrounding the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand which was a catalyst to World War I.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Scale City: Similar Figures and Unknown Heights in Practice

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this interactive, students explore how to use shadows, proportional reasoning, and similar figures to determine the unknown height of an object. The interactive allows students to explore the proportional relationships among the...
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University of Arizona

University of Arizona: Biochemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
Problem sets, tutorials, and activities related to biochemistry.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Biology: Biological Molecules

For Students 9th - 10th
Through informational text, interactive activities, step-through animations, and video clips, studnet explore biochemistry and the molecules that make up living things.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Enzyme Function

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how enzymes speed up biochemical reactions.
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Greensboro Sit Ins

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, which is provided for by Ibiblio, contains a background of the beginning and subsequent spread of the sit-ins during the 1960s.
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Goshen College

Bird Ritual

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This opening art exercise, although intended to increase art fluency, would be a great motivation for a lesson on Brancusi's "Bird in Space."
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: How Enzymes Work

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this biology lab, students use pineapple juice as an enzyme, and jello as a substrate to illustrate an enzyme/substrate complex.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: A Garden in Lawndale [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
"A Garden in Lawndale" is a one page, non-fiction, reading passage about an eighth grade class who planted a garden in a vacant lot by their school and maintained it to improve their neighborhood. It is followed by constructed-response...
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The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Abpi: Enzymes

For Students 9th - 10th
Animated learning exercise about all types of enzymes and their uses. Learn how different types of enzymes work and what effects them.
Primary
PBS

Commending Heights

For Students 9th - 10th
These interviews with individuals central to the development of ISI (import substitution industrialization) in Latin American economies features discussions of the controversial practice of ISI and its subsequent failure to jump start...
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Other

Inta: Hechos Asombrosos

For Students 3rd - 8th
In Spanish. Could you provide an answer to each of the question presented on this page? First, write or draw the explanation to the question then reads the response on this website and then compare your answer with the given answer.

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