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Texas Gateway: Three Main Types of Elements
The following tutorial explains the three main types of elements, including metals, non-metals and metalloids.
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Texas Gateway: What Is Density?
This tutorial is an explanation of the properties of density.
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Texas Gateway: Introduction to Potential and Kinetic Energy
Energy is the ability of a system to do work. That system may be batteries powering an electronic game system or windmills capturing wind energy to power a city. When an object or an organism does work, energy is transferred to another...
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Texas Gateway: The Great Egg Drop!
Which came first: the chicken or the egg? One might ask the same question about potential and kinetic energy. Make observations while you watch the video below. Think about what scientific conclusion you could make from your...
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Texas Gateway: Introduction to Motion
What do you think of when you hear the word motion? Are you moving right now? You may not think so, but you are. Remember, the Earth is moving around the Sun, and the Sun is moving around the Milky Way Galaxy. Everything in the universe...
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Texas Gateway: What Is Force?
You have probably heard the word "force" before in conversations. Here are a few examples: "the rocket had a lot of force at blast off" or "the force of the storm blew the roof off the building." What is force? Force is defined as a push...
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Texas Gateway: What Is Work?
Have you ever been assigned a chapter to read for homework? After you finish you may think to yourself, "That was a lot of work!" You might be surprised to learn that in the scientific sense, reading a chapter is not work at all!In...
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Texas Gateway: An Introduction to Plate Tectonics
The following learning module is an exploration of plate tectonics.
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Texas Gateway: Gravity Understanding
In this learning module students can get a better understanding of how gravity affects our solar system.
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Texas Gateway: Transportation Classification: Moving on Up
In this learning module, students will begin to undestand the how kingdoms are classified.
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Texas Gateway: Food Chains, Food Webs and Food Pyramids
The following is a tutorial of food chains, food webs and food pyramids.
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Texas Gateway: Organic or Inorganic?
Take a look around your world as you discover what items are made up of organic and inorganic materials. Take this tutorial and quiz to see how much you know.
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Texas Gateway: Diggin' Into Digestion
In this lesson, students learn about physical and chemical changes during digestion through a variety of activities.
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Texas Gateway: Human Impact
This tutorial provides some insight to the study of human impacts on water supplies.
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Texas Gateway: Ecological Succession
This tutorial is an exploration of primary and seconday succession.
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Texas Gateway: Dichotomous Key
This tutorial is introduces students to the usage of the dichotomous key.
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Texas Gateway: The Digestive System, Fact or Fiction?
In this lesson students read fun, gross, or interesting facts about the digestive system and they are introduced to several unfamiliar words and encouraged to "be on the lookout" for those words during the lesson.
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Texas Gateway: It's All About Cell Theory
The following tutorial is an explanation of cell theory.
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Texas Gateway: Lab Safety
Lab safety is extremely important. We want you and your classmates to be safe when you are in the lab! Learn here about the ways and signs that you can be safe during the time you are learning in the lab.
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Texas Gateway: What Is Recycling?
This tutorial provides an explanation of what recycling is and how you can be a part of conserving your resources.
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Texas Gateway: Lab Equipment
In the following lesson students will be introduced to general and specialized lab equipment.
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Texas Gateway: Descriptive vs. Comparative Investigations
In the following lesson students will learn the differences between descriptive and comparative investigations.
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Texas Gateway: Quantitative vs. Qualitative Data
This lesson explores quantitative vs. qualitative scientific data.
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Texas Gateway: Scientific Investigation and Reasoning
A tutorial reviewing over the steps of the scientific method.