Curated OER
Learning how to balance equations
Students play Chembalancer game and balance equations using the trial and error method.
Curated OER
Reading Comprehension Worksheet: Compounds & Elements
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read several short paragraphs about compounds and elements and then answer several questions about the text.
Curated OER
Field Trip to test Water Quality
Students examine water quality indicators,test water quality and record their results. In this water quality instructional activity students complete a water testing lab and complete a lab report.
Curated OER
Periodic Table Lesson Plan
Students describe how elements are arranged on the periodic table. They compare metals, nonmetals, and metalloids based on their properties and on their locations in the periodic table. Students describe the differences between a...
Curated OER
Renewable Energy Plants in Your Gas Tank: From Photosynthesis to Ethanol
Students examine the role photosynthesis plays in plant survival. In this renewable energy lesson students document their observations and analyze and interpret their results.
Curated OER
Synthesizing Pigment and Dyeing Cloth
Students create a synthetic dye and oxidize the dye and record the effects.
Curated OER
Urban Impact on Chollas Creek (California): A Field Study
Students, in groups, take samples from a creek and keep a field journal on their samples. They also perform tests on their samples.
Curated OER
Solar
Students study solar energy. For this renewable energy lesson students complete several lab activities using different controls and variables.
Curated OER
Exploring With Photograms
Young scholars observe the interaction between energy absorbed, reflected or transmitted through an object in a photochemical process with a classroom demonstration.
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: 7.1 Chemical Reactions & Matter Transformations
This Chemical Reactions & Matter Transformationsun unit has students investigating where the students investigate the chemical reactions of a bath bomb.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Chemical Properties of Matter
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of chemical property and examples of the chemical properties of matter.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Chemical Properties of Matter
Definition of chemical property and examples of the chemical properties of matter. [Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.]
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Lesson Plans: What Is a Chemical Reaction?
After observing a demonstration of a chemical reaction between a burning candle and the oxygen in the air, young scholars use atom model cut-outs to model the reaction and see that all the atoms in the reactants show up in the products.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Concepts, Classification and States of Matter
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Freshly baked bread and cherry pie are two delicious parts of any meal. What happens to the ingredients that go into the bread and the pie as they are heated in the...
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Chemical Relationships: Chemical Equations
An introduction to chemical reactions and an explanation of balanced equations.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemical Reactions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What happens in a chemical reaction is explained, along with how it is represented by a chemical equation. In a chemical reaction, the law of conservation of matter...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Changes in Matter Chemical Reactions They're Everywhere
Can you distinguish physical changes from chemical reactions? You'll be presented with a number of pictures and asked to identify those which are examples of chemical reactions.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Chemical Reactions: Investigating Exothermic and Endothermic Reactions
In this 9th grade physical science guided inquiry, students will work in pairs to discover the indicators of chemical reactions. Each pair of students is assigned either an exothermic or endothermic reaction. Based on their observations,...
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Controlling Amount of Products in a Chemical Reaction
Students analyze the chemical equation for the reaction between vinegar and baking soda. They observe that the gas produced in the reaction is also part of the products of the written chemical equation.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Changes in Matter
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students identify the chemical properties of a substance and describe chemical changes and differentiate them from physical changes....
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Exploding Baggies
Students will witness a fascinating chemical reaction and learn how to identify when a reaction has occurred by combining simple ingredients.
Utah STEM Foundation
Utah Stem Action Center: Changes in Matter
The goal of this activity is to develop and use a model to describe that matter is made of particles on a scale that is too small to be seen. You will be making observations of changes supported by a particle model of matter.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: States of Matter Experiment
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart goes through the basics of identifying the different states of matter: solids, liquids, and gases. It also has an exciting (and easy) experiment for students to combine substances, get a...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Lab: Conservation of Mass
This lab experiment shows students that mass is not gained or lost during a chemical reaction. Lab also includes a set of lab questions that requires students to balance the chemical equation for the reaction that occurs in this lab.