Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Is All Ice Created Equal? A Density Lab
A lab experiment that shows students that different molecules melt in different ways. This lab also allows students to practice calculating and finding density, mass, and volume. Lesson plan includes lab handout for students.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Density Column Lab Part 1
In this first part of a two-part lab activity, students use triple balance beams and graduated cylinders to take measurements and calculate the densities of several common, irregularly shaped objects with the purpose to resolve confusion...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: How Dense Are You Lab
Students determine the mass and volume of soil samples and calculate the density of the soils. They use this information to determine the suitability of the soil to support a building foundation.
CPALMS
Cpalms: Dollars for Density
This is a guided inquiry activity in which students use simple lab procedures and discussions to develop and apply the concept of density. Students collect and graph data which they use to explore the relationship between mass and...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Density of Solid Objects
In this science inquiry, students investigate whether volume or density of objects determine the floating or sinking in water. Using a rock and a block of wood teachers engage students in the discussion of density, mass and volume.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: What Is Density?
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.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Floating and Sinking: Density
This investigation introduces the concepts of volume, mass, and density and how they interact. Students will make predictions of whether an object will float or sink after finding mass and volume of an object.
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Finding Amounts of "Stuff": Exploring Density
Learn what density is and how to calculate it using mass and volume.
California State University
Csudh Project for Chemistry: Mass, Density, and Volume
Use these word problems as a review in the areas of mass, density, and volume.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Density Triangle and Examples
The density triangle is a memory tool to help students remember the formula for density, D = M / V, and its variations.
Science Museum of Minnesota
Science Museum of Minnesota: Thinking Fountain: Density
An introduction to density, mass, and volume with links to related books and activities.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: You're So Dense Ti 83
Students investigate the relationship between density of an object, its mass and its volume. They use mass and volume measurements to determine the density of pennies. They compare the density of pre-1983 and post-1984 pennies.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Determining Densities
Students will use two different methods to determine the densities of a variety of materials and objects. The first method involves direct measurement of the volumes of objects that have simple geometric shapes, while the second uses the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: What Is Density?
This tutorial is an explanation of the properties of density.
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: General Science: Density
Instructional module focusing on density as a physical property of matter. Discussion incorporates historical references as well as formulas. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to the topic.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Floating and Sinking: Hot Air Balloons
Why do hot air balloons float? This resource from the NOVA Web site offers a series of interactive activities that illustrates the physics of hot air balloons.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Rock and Boat
Students observe Archimedes' principle in action in this challenge where a toy boat is placed in a container of water and a rock is placed on the floating boat. Students must explain why the water level rises/falls/stays the same based...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix Series: Gas Density: Mass, Volume and the Mole
[Free Registration/Login Required] Find out what mathematical function should be performed in order to move from mass to moles and back again. After the activity, answer one multiple choice, challenge question about the topic.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: Fluid Statics: Density
By the end of this section, you will be able to define density, calculate the mass of a reservoir from its density, and compare and contrast the densities of various substances.
Other
Sim Bucket: Density Lab
Use water displacement and a mass balance to determine the density of various objects in this interactive simulation.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemistry: Density
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers density and provides examples of density calculations.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Floaters and Sinkers
Through this curricular unit, students are introduced to the important concept of density. The focus is on the more easily understood densities of solids, but students may also explore the densities of liquids and gases. Students devise...
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Density of Water
Students discover the concept that density is a characteristic property of water by measuring the volume and mass of water and calculating its density.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Ideal Gases and Gas Stoichiometry
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students will learn the Ideal Gas Law, and know which of the different values for the ideal gas constant to use in a given...