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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Solid, Liquid or Gas?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are given a variety of materials and asked to identify if each material as a solid, liquid or gas. They use their five senses - sight, sound, smell, texture and taste - to identify the other characteristics of each item.
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Other

Beautiful Chemistry: Beautiful Structures: Gas and Liquid

For Students 9th - 10th
In Beautiful Chemistry, we talk about crystals, quasicrystals and glasses, which are all solids. Here, we see the molecular structure of gases and liquids.
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Chem Tutor

Chem Tutor: Dissolving Gases Into Liquids

For Students 9th - 10th
Description of the factors influencing gas solubility. This site also provides other chemistry related questions. Topics include dissolving solids into liquids, concentration, and stoichiometry.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Water Magicians

For Teachers 1st
First graders observe water changing states from a solid to a liquid to a gas.
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Center of Science and Industry

Cosi Columbus: Can You Stand the Pressure

For Students 9th - 10th
Science experiment that demonstrates the four states or phases of matter: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of how you change water from a liquid state to a gaseous...
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Energy4Me

Energy4me: Understanding Density

For Students 2nd - 6th
This activity explores the property of density in a variety of liquids and solids.
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Science4Fun

Science4 Fun: States of Matter

For Students 1st - 6th
Provides interesting information about the three basic states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas.
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Chem Tutor

Chem Tutor: States of Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
A very descriptive site that allows students to understand the different states of matter at the atomic level. Also discusses the process of phase changes and displays phase change graphs. Thermochemistry is also touched upon for high...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Mystery Mud: Exploring Changes in States of Matter

For Students 3rd - 8th
Join a group of middle-school students on a visit to a laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where they experiment with "mystery mud" and learn about the relationships between magnetism, particle motion, and changes in...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Making a Water Cycle

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this instructional activity students are required to observe a simple model of the water cycle constructed of sand and ice in a plastic shoe box.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Water, Water Everywhere

For Teachers 1st
Discussion of the various ways we rely on water.
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Crescent Public Schools

The Internet Science Room: The Kinetic Theory & Phase Change

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial helps students understand the Kinetic Theory, which explains the effects of temperature and pressure on matter as it goes through phase changes.
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CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Your Ice Cream Is Moving

For Students 5th - 9th
Learn how states of matter are dependent on an object's average kinetic energy.
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The Wonder of Science

The Wonder of Science: Ms Ps1 1: Atomic Composition Model

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A collection of lesson plans for helping young scholars understand atomic composition. Site uses work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos to plan lessons to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules.
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MadSci Network

The Mad Scientist Network: Chemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
The question: "What would the triple point of water truly look like?" is discussed and explained. The phases of matter are described.

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