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Solids in Bottles
Pupils use funnels to put the five solid materials into clear bottles with caps. They observe how the particulate materials look, sound, and move when they shake and roll the bottle. Finally, students write "sound and touch" poetry.
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What Happens When Chemical Are Put Together?
In this chemical reactions worksheet, high schoolers answer 20 multiple choice questions about chemical equations, chemical formulas, oxidation and reduction reactions and acids, bases and salts.
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Sink or Float?
Students make and test predictions about sinking and floating, and classify objects according to whether they sink or float.
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Sink or Float?
Students will determine whether various objects sink or float in water. They do not need to explain why objects sink or float. They are rather to be encouraged to observe that the same objects will sink or float every time, i.e., that...
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Three Clouds Activity
Students understand how clouds are formed. In this cloud lesson, students participate in three experiments to make clouds. Students complete activity sheets for each experiment.
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What's the Matter? (Experiments)
Students observe a scientific discrepant event, and are then challenged to create experiments to solve the dilemma.
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Stomach Chemistry
Fifth graders compare physical and chemical changes. They perform a simulation experiment/activity that replicates what happens in the stomach as food is digested by stomach acids.
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Reaction Reasoning
Third graders experiment with chemical reactions and examine what happens to the atoms when different reactions occur. In this matter lesson students divide into groups and complete a lab experiment.
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The Water in Our Lives: Kit Practice
Students examine a local water source using testing kits to determine water qualitiy. They identify the pollutants and contaminants in each sample. They determine if samples fall within an acceptable range for drinking water.
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Particulate Matter: How Dirty is the Air We Breathe?
Fourth graders create a simple testing device and collect and observe the pollution in the air we breathe.
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Air Pressure
Fourth graders observe a demonstration experiment showing air pressure. They explain air pressure by completing the worksheet.
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Landfills and the Potential for Groundwater Contamination
Students examine how a sanitary landfill is constructed, how it functions, and how waste and leachate affects the areas around the landfill. After a discussion about landfills and leachates, students construct a Sanitary Landfill Model...
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Avogadro's Law
Students study Avogadro's law and what it means in science. In this gaseous instructional activity students complete an Avogadro's law experiment.
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Emu Farm
In this Emu Farm worksheet, students watch the America's Heartland video Emu Farm and fill in the blanks to sentences about it. Students complete 5 sentences.
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Dew Point
Fourth graders investigate saturation conditions and measure the dew point. They conduct an experiment, record data on a worksheet, and measure the dew point in the experiment.
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Three Clouds Activity
Students explore how clouds are produced through three different age-appropriate hands-on experiments.
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Can you Find the Expression
Students collect data from measurements and weights for this experiment. In this algebra lesson, students analyze graphs they create form their data to find the expression representing the data. They label which graph provided the best...
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Reaction Kinetics
In this chemical reactions worksheet, students determine the reaction rate for various reactions, write balanced equations, create graphs showing the reaction over time, and calculate the activation energy and potential energy. This...
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Physical States and Properties: Properties of Liquids
Read about the many properties of liquids. Take an assessment when finished.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Properties of Matter
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students examine differences in physical and chemical properties of solids, liquids, and gases.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Liquid Crystals History and Properties of Liquid Crystals
This site provides in-depth information on the history and invention of liquid crystals including biographical information on Pierre-Gilles de Gennes. Diagrams and pictures are also provided.
American Chemical Society
Inquiry in Action: Tests to Distinguish Between Similar Looking Liquids
Using the properties of liquids, students will identify unknown liquids by seeing how they behave on different paper surfaces. This site includes teacher and student instructions for the lab activity.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Properties of Matter
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial, students will begin to understand a substance according to its physical properties. Learn to distinguish between extensive and intensive...