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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Physical and Chemical Changes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The teacher will conduct the whoosh bottle demonstration to engage students. The class will then begin discussion of endothermic and exothermic physical and chemical changes. The students will then conduct the Science in Motion lab...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Name That Change!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson teaches students to distinguish between physical and chemical changes. Students will view an interactive slideshow presentation and then conduct experiments to discern physical and chemical changes.
Unit Plan
Other

Science4 Us: Changes in Matter

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Through an instructional video, games, and activities, students explore three types of change matter makes: physical change, in which only the shape of the matter changes; physical phase change in which matter changes to a different form...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Trb 5:1 Activity 6: Chemical Change

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this fifth grade activity, young scholars explore how matter changes during a chemical reaction.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Recognizing Chemical Reactions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will add 4 chemicals to a beaker and observe the changes that take place. They will classify them as physical or chemical changes.
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Other

English Montreal School: Chemical vs. Physical Changes: Elements vs. Compounds

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A laboratory experiment where students classify matter into a homogenous mixture, heterogeneous mixture, solution, or pure substance. Also students will test for physical and chemical changes.
Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: What Is Matter

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about matter, its three states, changes of state, how matter behaves, and physical and chemical changes in matter.
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: The Phenomena of Physical Change Explained

For Students 4th - 8th
Explains what a physical change is and gives examples. The difference between a physical and a chemical change is also discussed.
Website
Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Chemical vs. Physical Changes

For Students 5th - 8th
Identify chemical and physical changes and the differences between the two.
Activity
Other

The Science House: Ziptop Bag Chemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
In this experiment, three reactions are performed in a sealed Ziploc bag so that they can be observed. Students identify whether physical or chemical change has taken place.
Activity
American Chemical Society

Inquiry in Action: Color Changes With Acids and Bases

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lab activity, students will learn how red cabbage can be used as an indicator of an acid or base by looking at its color changes.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Trb 5:1 Act. 4: Chem. Reactions Borax & Glue, Cream

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this experiment for Grade Five, learners develop an understanding that chemical changes in matter do not affect the actual mass of the matter.
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HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Changes With Acids & Bases

For Teachers 1st - 5th
This lesson plan is designed to introduce young students to chemical changes in acids and bases.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Somethin' Sweet

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This site provides a lesson plan using candy making to demonstrate physical and chemical changes in matter. Includes directions to make caramel and rock candy.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: States of Matter

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A comprehensive lesson plan site that contains a number of activities to aid in teaching about the states and properties of matter and the difference between a physical and chemical change.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Le Chatelier's Principle

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students explain the factors that stress a system at equilibrium and use Le Chatelier's principle to predict how the system will respond to each stress. They will...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Diaper Inquiry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the technology of a diaper. They consider various physical traits of a diaper and then come up with an investigation to test some of these traits.
eBook
Crescent Public Schools

The Internet Science Room: Stoichiometry

For Students 9th - 10th
This chemistry tutorial presents Stoichiometry to students with explicit steps for solving a mass-mass problem and for solving a limiting reactant problem.
Activity
Teachers TryScience

Teachers Try Science: Stick to It!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An activity from the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry where participants make white glue from milk curds and then test it out, trying different variations of the ingredients. They learn about the denaturing of the protein casein...
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Other

The Science House: Invisible Ink

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Guidelines for a simple lab demonstration using phenolphthalein, a chemical that changes color depending on whether it is in the presence of an acid or base.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: About All You Can Eat: Truth or Consequences

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Demonstrate how calories are measured by building a calorimeter to measure the transfer of heat energy during a chemical or physical change. Test and record data on the calories in a peanut.

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