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Teach Engineering

Aerogel Cookies

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Cookies are definitely important for scientific learning. To study aerogels, future engineers use chocolate chip cookie dough to make models. Their task is to design a process that removes the chocolate chips from the cookie dough,...
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PPT
Curated OER

Making Energy: ATP

For Teachers 10th - 12th
The main concepts behind how ATP transfers energy are explained in this Ap Biology PowerPoint. The diagrams convey the information that students need for any test regarding phosphorylation. The steps are clear, and should help students...
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Curated OER

The Point is to Make ATP

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Storing and transferring energy is explained here with reference to the fight or flight response, along with the need for activity in times of lowered nutrition. This is a great summary of ATP applications, and after the multiple stages...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Bouncing Balls

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create a polymer ball in the lab. In this chemistry instructional activity, students identify the different properties of the polymer they created. They explain what type of chemical reaction took place.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Biology E3 Project Instructional Plan

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders design a device to treat aneurism. In this biology lesson, 9th graders create a polymer in the lab and explain its uses. They identify the different diseases affecting the circulatory system.
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Curated OER

Superballs

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students mix two different solutions to become more familiar with molecules and polymers. In this chemistry lesson plan, students decide whether or not the reaction between two solutions is chemical or physical. Students then observe the...
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Curated OER

How Shocking

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students describe the characteristics of polymers and rubbers and how they improve human lives.  In this shock lesson students build a shock absorbing structure using different polymer materials. 
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Curated OER

Plastic Polymers

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students learn about plastic. In this plastic polymers activity, students examine the properties of plastic, its variety of uses and how it is recycled.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making a Model Lung

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners explain the parts of the body that are involved in breathing and explore lung function.  In this model lung activity students make a model of a lung then interpret and explain it. 
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Lab Resource
Royal Society of Chemistry

Green Plastics—Chemistry Outreach

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
How do green plastics reduce waste and environmental pollution? Budding scientists create and test a variety of compounds used in green plastics during an insightful experiment. Beginning with startling statistics and ending with...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Four Groups of Biologically Important Compounds

For Teachers 7th - 12th
This is not they typical set of teacher instructions. It is an organized chart of the important organic compounds. For each, the involved elements, the name of the building block monomers, the names of polymers, extra information, and a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Electromagnetic Energy and Its Spectrum

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Your older elementary learners investigate electromagnetic energy and the electromagnetic spectrum. They will observe 7 items represented in the electromagnetic spectrum and make a poster of all the things the items have in common. After...
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Curated OER

Chemistry of Carbon - Building Blocks of Life

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A great review of the structure and function of carbon-based molecules important to life, especially with relevance to humans. The chemistry behind the combination of polymers and the breakdown of bonds is covered. Valuable content in...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Organic Chemistry Reactions

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this organic chemistry reactions worksheet, students are given a table with 8 different types of reactions that occur with organic molecules. Students answer 3 questions about the reactions given in the table and indicate which...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introduction and Making Textured Beads

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore the basics of working with polymer clay. They experiment with textures, inclusions. Students explore adding sand or glitter to their inclusions. Students create textured beads from the clay.
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Lesson Plan
Dick Blick Art Materials

Torn-Paper Collage Journals

For Teachers K - 12th
Young writers personalize their journals by making their own. Whether they make covers for existing journals or make their own books, the activity encourages kids to express themselves in words and images.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Elastomers: The Best Bungee Cord

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Young scholars examine elastomeric polymers in a lab activity in which they design a bungee cord. Students must determine the tensile strength, percent elongation, and plot stress versus strain graphs for their experiments on rubber...
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Interactive
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

DNA and Proteins Are Key Molecules of the Cell Nucleus

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
When DNA research first began, it required almost an entire day to extract the molecules from a cell nucleus. Now it requires less than an hour. Scholars learn about the early theories of DNA with an online interactive, videos,...
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Activity
Teach Engineering

Battle of the Beams

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Make the strongest beam possible using taffy? Groups mold a taffy-water mixture into a beam and a reinforcing material of their choice. To finish the final installment of a two-part series, participants test its strength by adding...
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Curated OER

Proteins

For Teachers 10th - 12th
As long as you have some support information to answer questions that may come up from students, this is an excellent PowerPoint to cover almost all aspects of protein structure and ionization. The sequence of slides has great images and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

#21 Films, Fibers, and Solubility

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Learners are introduced to how the differences in solubility of materials are used in the manufacture of fibers and films. They are also introduced to the various processes used to make films and fibers. Pupils prepare fibers using wet...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Bouncing Balls

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create a polymer to demonstrate its properties and develop an awareness of the wide variety of uses for polymers.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Goofy Putty

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Pupils examine mixtures and solution properties by making a borax polymer. In this chemical reactions lesson, students make a putty out of borax solution mixed to create a polymer.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Critter? Growth

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify and use the elements of the scientific inquiry to solve problems. They explain concepts about the structure and properties of matter. Pupils write an explanation of polymers and how the characteristic of polymers...

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