ClassFlow
Class Flow: Introduction to Matter
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a basic introduction to the properties of matter, mass, and weight. It discusses the physical properties of objects.
San Diego Natural History Museum
San Diego Natural History Museum: Mineral Matters: Luster
A brief introduction to identifying a mineral by its luster. Examples of terms used to describe luster, such as metallic, glassy, and dull are listed.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Comparing and Contrasting Matter
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a guided activity to help students compare different types of matter: atoms and molecules, elements and compounds, mixtures and solutions. It corresponds to Virginia science SOL 5.4.
San Diego Natural History Museum
San Diego Natural History Museum: Mineral Matters: Color
Don't be fooled! While color is one way to identify a mineral, it can often be misleading. Quartz is one example of a mineral that can change colors depending on its chemical make-up.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How Sweet It Is
As part of the study of Matter, the students will determine the density of standard percent sugar solutions through hands on experimentation. In laboratory groups, students will graph a standardized curve of the experimental data. The...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Measuring Viscosity
Students calculate the viscosity of various household fluids by measuring the amount of time it takes marble or steel balls to fall given distances through the liquids. They experience what viscosity means, and also practice using...
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: Cristalizacion Y Ambientes Petrogeneticos
This unit covers the crystalline matter and its properties. It includes 13 interactive activities.
NASA
Dawn Mission: Education: Structure and Properties of Matter: Ion Propulsion
Student groups explore propulsion technology necessary for the Dawn project to complete its mission. Learning module components include story mapping, online interactive activity, RAFT writing exercise, and other standards-aligned...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Atomic Structure
Take a look at the parts of an atom and learn about its properties.
US National Archives
Docsteach: The Titanic Disaster: Measuring Loss of Life, Property and Injuries
Students will analyze claims filed by survivors, families of victims and owners of cargo of the Titanic disaster. They will examine claims for loss of life, loss of property and injuries that were filed as part of 'In the Matter of the...
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 Struck
Science Struck: Translucent, Transparent, and Opaque Materials
The definitions of transparent, translucent, and opaque can be found here. The article explains how the density of a material and its ability to absorb light determine which of these three properties it has. A list of examples is given...
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Density: Sink and Float for Solids
Students determine whether an object will sink or float by comparing its density to the density of water.
New York University
New York University: States of Water
Use this resource to learn about the three different phases of water; solid, liquid, and gas. What happens to water as it changes into a solid or gas? Includes short and easy to do activity.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Plastic Polymers: Investigating Their Flexibility
Students will use their prior knowledge about changes of matter to develop a hypothesis to test the physical properties of materials such as plastic (polymers) and how its chemical properties allow it to have unique physical properties.
Other
Science Alive: Melting Point Simulation
Percy Julian and Josef Pikl used the fact that melting point-the temperature at which a substance changes from a solid to a liquid-is a characteristic property of a substance to prove that the British chemist Robert Robinson could not...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg, G Gmd Global Positioning System Ii
Satellites communicate with a GPS device and establish the distance between them and their locations. The set of points at a fixed distance from a satellite form a sphere so when the GPS receives its distance from a given satellite, this...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Making Bath Salts for Mother's Day, a Primary Chemistry Lesson
What do you know about salt? In this chemistry lesson, learners will learn different things about salt: the chemical name, it's periodic table number, it's shape under the microscope, how it dissolves in water, and how to make a mixture...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Make Some Zlime
Explore properties of matter by making a slimy substance out of cornstarch and water then noticing how it reacts to pressure.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Plastic Polymers: Building a Model
Students will use their prior knowledge about changes of matter including physical and chemical changes from the Houghton Mifflin science curriculum. Students will create a hypothesis to test the physical properties of materials such as...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Environment
Through 10 lessons and more than 20 hands-on activities, students are introduced to the concept of an environment and the many interactions within it. As they learn about natural and human-made environments, as well as renewable and...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion
Why does the shape of a molecule matter? Learn about how the shape of the molecule not only determines the molecule's properties but also whether it reacts or not. This tutorial reviews of VSEPR and molecular geometry.
BBC
Bbc: Schools: Chemistry (Single Science)
Chemistry is the study of the composition, behavior and properties of matter, and of the elements of the Earth and its atmosphere. This site provides links to chemistry exams over courses in BBC: AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas, OCR 21st Century,...
Other
Virtual Chembook: Density Applications With Gases
DENSITY is a physical property of matter, as each element and compound has a unique density associated with it. Density defined in a qualitative manner as the measure of the relative "heaviness" of objects with a constant volume. For...