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PBS

Pbs: Nova: Absolute Zero: States of Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive allows you to explore the effect that temperature and pressure have on the changes in the states of matter. You can test these variables on carbon dioxide, hydrogen and water.
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eSchool Today

E School Today: The Changing State of Matter

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about the changing states of matter.
Unit Plan
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: States of Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch different types of molecules form a solid, liquid, or gas. Add or remove heat and watch the phase change. Change the temperature or volume of a container and see a pressure-temperature diagram respond in real time. Relate the...
Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: What Is Matter

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about matter, its three states, changes of state, how matter behaves, and physical and chemical changes in matter.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Particulate Nature of Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive activity from ChemThink, students will examine the basic properties of matter at an atomic level and consider how various atoms affect the way a substance behaves.
Unit Plan
McCracken County Schools

Mc Cracken County Schools: Structure and Properties of Matter

For Teachers 4th - 6th
This expansive unit created by McCracken County Schools focuses on the properties of matter. Multiple lessons focus on the concept of scientific modeling of matter particles. Included in this unit are various activities to reach all...
Lesson Plan
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Changing State: Evaporation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students build a model of a water molecule and design an experiment to see if adding energy affects the rate of evaporation.
Lesson Plan
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Changing State: Freezing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate how low temperature causes water vapor to condense into a liquid and then freeze to form a solid.
Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: States of Matter

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A comprehensive lesson plan site that contains a number of activities to aid in teaching about the states and properties of matter and the difference between a physical and chemical change.
Article
University of Alaska

Alaska Science Forum: Plasma: The Fourth State of Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
Good discussion on the conditions and natural existence of plasmas.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Heating and Cooling

For Students 2nd - 4th
A tutorial reviewing the states of matter and the effects of heating and cooling matter in the different states. (Note: some of the links may not load in the archived version of the site.)
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Matter

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
During this lesson, students explore matter through a hands-on investigation. By participating in an experiment and navigating the Internet, students learn to identify the properties of matter.
Activity
American Chemical Society

Inquiry in Action: From Liquid to Gas to Solid

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
What causes frost to form on the outside of a cold container? In this activity, students will see that the liquid water can change state again and freeze to become ice.
Article
Smithsonian Institution

Tween Tribune: Week of 6 13 16: Muhammad Ali, and Why He Mattered

For Students 6th - 8th
The Beatles' first visit to the United States was in 1964. Clever publicity agents arranged a meeting for the band with Cassius Clay. He was training for the bout that would make him heavyweight boxing champion. The result was a...
Website
Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Liquid to Gas and Back to Liquid

For Students 5th - 8th
This resource discusses ways liquids can change into gases and vice versa.
Unit Plan
CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Conservation of Mass and Energy in Living Systems

For Students 5th - 9th
Learn about the conservation of mass and energy as it applies to different living systems.
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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Changing State Melting

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the phase change that occurs when ice is melting.
Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids Science: Solid, Liquid, Gas

For Students 1st - 9th
Kid's learn about the science of states of matter. Solids, liquids, gases, and even plasma.
Handout
Science4Fun

Science4 Fun: Heat

For Students K - 1st
What is heat? Illustrated discussion of how heat is transferred and its effect on the states of matter.
Handout
Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Matter: Evaporation

For Students 3rd - 8th
An explanation about the process of evaporation and the conditions needed to complete this process.
Unit Plan
CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Atoms Make Up Everything

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how atoms are the building blocks of all living and nonliving things.
Lesson Plan
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Air: It's Really There

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigation shows that gas takes up space and has mass, and that the motion of gas molecules is affected by heating and cooling.
Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Somethin' Sweet

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This site provides a lesson plan using candy making to demonstrate physical and chemical changes in matter. Includes directions to make caramel and rock candy.
Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Gases Lighter and Heavier That Air

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Teachers, to demonstrate to the elementary student that some gases are heavier than others, this experiment uses Winnie the Pooh and balloons to do just that.

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