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Columbus City Schools

To Measure its Mass or Volume?

For Teachers 6th Standards
Atoms, elements, and molecules, oh my! Teaching the fundamentals of chemistry to curious sixth graders has never been easier to accomplish. Here is a resource that pulls together everything needed to get them off to a good start,...
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Virginia Middle School Engineering Education Initiative

Save the Penguins: An Introduction to Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Heat things up in your physical science class with this interactive lesson series on thermodynamics. Through a series of class demonstrations and experiments, young scientists learn how heat is transferred through conduction,...
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Melting Ice

For Students 6th - 8th
Using temperature probes, students will monitor the temperature of melting ice cubes in different situations. This lab activity, allows students to view the procedure and answer questions online that can be saved and evaluated by the...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Lab 6: Future of the Cryosphere

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that investigates climate and the cryosphere. In this lab, students predict what Earth's climate may be like in the future based on models. They also predict how warming temperature and melting...
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Other

Digital Library for Earth System Education: Changing Sea Level

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A suite of lessons lead inquiry-based exploration of melting sea ice and evidence that it is affecting sea level, namely glacial evidence, geologic evidence, fossil evidence, and isotopic evidence.
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University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: Arctic Warming and Greenhouse Gasses

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore how the warming of the Earth's polar regions may lead to releasing greenhouse gasses.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Freezing

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains what happens to matter when it freezes and the definition of freezing point.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Engineering for the Earth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young students are introduced to the complex systems of the Earth through numerous lessons on its natural resources, processes, weather, climate and landforms. Key earth science topics include rocks, soils and minerals, water and natural...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Is Entropy?

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the process that explains why ice melts, why cream spreads in coffee, why air leaks out of a punctured tire. Jeff Phillips gives a crash course on entropy.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How to Grow Your Own Glacier

For Students 9th - 10th
M Jackson explores the ancient methods of growing glaciers and how they can be used to combat climate change.

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