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Poster Assignment: Sports Chemistry
Tenth graders distinguish between chemical and physical properties and changes in matter when given specific examples. They view a video of sports activities. Students chose their favorite sport and design an experiment to improve sports...
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Help Wanted: A Lighting Engineer For Popular Rock Group
Students are assigned to groups, and determine each member's role in the group. They will design an experiment to determine a way to produce the three primary and five secondary colors. Students discuss color and mood. They listen to a...
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Simple Chemical Equations
Eighth graders interpret the chemical symbols and shorthand used for molecules and equations. Through guided practice, 8th graders work to decipher and interpret the symbols for chemical equations. An opportunity for independent...
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Pounds of Pollution
Learners examine pollutants and investigate air pollution emitted by a car in a year. In this air pollution lesson students complete an activity and make calculations.
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Scientific Graphs
Students organize data collected from their experiments using graphs. In this statistics and biology lesson plan, students organize their scientific data from an article into readable graphs. They define the usefulness of their graph and...
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Chemistry: Metals and Non-Metals
Students conduct an experiment to test the reactivity of metals and non-metals. In this chemistry lesson plan students test metals with different chemicals to observe the reaction. The results are used to categorize the metals.
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What's Matter?
Learners explore the definition of matter. In exploring matter lesson students get into groups and navigate the Internet to answer questions.
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Alkaline-Earth Metals
Students study the importance of alkaline earth metals. In this metals lesson students research the minerals that are essential for human health.
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Flame Test
Students conduct a flame test on different substances. In this chemistry lesson, students predict the element present based on the color emitted during the flame test. They explain how different elements produce different colors.
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Physical Science Project-Atom
Fifth graders investigate atoms. In this atom instructional activity, 5th graders investigate the parts of an atom. Students explore atom numbers and determine the number of electrons is in each atom.
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Physical and Chemical Changes
Eighth graders view a PowerPoint presentation that assist them in distinguishing between physical and chemical changes. They compare their observations of demonstrations to a list of clues recognizing types of changes.
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Gopher, Part 2: Gopherin'
Students explore how to access a gopher site using a root menu. Several options are presented with their definitions and the fastest routes examined in this instructional activity. The instructional activity is designed for librarians...
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Electron Arrangements
Students write electron configurations and identify groups. For this investigative lesson students use valence electrons to draw electron dot structures.
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Chemistry: Balancing Chemical Equations
Eighth graders practice balancing chemical equations. In this chemistry lesson, 8th graders explain why it is necessary to balance equations. They complete practice worksheets individually.
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Google for Education: Patterns in the Periodic Table
Students study trends in the periodic table of elements, supplemented by the use of spreadsheet functions. The spreadsheet functions presented can be used on any data set.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Chapter 4: The Periodic Table and Bonding
Six middle school chemistry lessons about the periodic table and bonding complete with handouts and animations.
Utah Education Network
Uen: The Periodic Table and the Universe
Students will apply the atomic number of elements on the periodic table to the origin of heavy elements in the star cycle.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Periodic Table
Students explore the periodic table and learn the basic information given for elements: the name, symbol, atomic number, and atomic mass for each element.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Who Wants to Know the Periodic Table?
The purpose of the project is to help the young scholars gain an in depth knowledge of the Periodic Table of Elements. The periodic table is the very backbone of chemistry. In order for the students to be successful in chemistry, they...
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Periodic Table and Energy Level Models
Students interpret the information given in the periodic table to describe the arrangement of electrons on the energy levels around an atom.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Periodic Table of Poetic Elements
Each student will create a poem about an element on the periodic table. The poems will be placed in the appropriate "square" to create a large periodic table wall hanging. This project will require the collaborative work of several...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Trends on the Periodic Table: Metals, Non Metals, and Metalloids
In this lab activity, students will be asked to observe and then test the physical and chemical properties of several different elements.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Building 3 D Models of Atoms
Learners build atoms of elements 1-20. The entire set can be hung from the ceiling in order of the Periodic Table to be referred to throughout the Chemistry class/unit. This is helpful when teaching bonding and patterns of the Periodic...
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Alex: Periodi Cally Used Elements
This lesson explores the various uses of elements in the periodic table. Students will be assigned an element to research. They will then present its uses and atomic information to the class.