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Chemical Reax/exothermic Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
A wonderfully complete primer on exothermic reactions in the context of chemical spills. Covers Reactions with Air or Water, Combustible Organics, Polymerization Reax, Decomposition, Corrosion, and much much more.
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Reverse Osmosis and Osmotic Pressure What They Are

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives a good explanation of osmosis and reverse osmosis. Also includes a scientific diagram of the process.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Floaters and Sinkers

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Through this curricular unit, students are introduced to the important concept of density. The focus is on the more easily understood densities of solids, but students may also explore the densities of liquids and gases. Students devise...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Floats Your Boat?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners use modeling clay, a material that is denser than water and thus ordinarily sinks in water, to discover the principle of buoyancy. They begin by designing and building boats out of clay that will float in water, and then refine...
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Frostburg State University

Frostburg State Chemistry Online: Pressure & Oxygen Solubility

For Students 9th - 10th
The effect of changing pressure on the solubility of oxygen in water. Explains how temperature and pressure affect dissolved oxygen levels. Includes example formulas.
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Science Bob Pflugfelder

Science Bob: Oobleck: The Cornstarch and Water Experiment

For Students 4th - 8th
Try this fun and easy experiment to learn about "Non-Newtonian" liquids.
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Steve Spangler Science: Soda Bottle Prank

For Students 2nd - 5th
This resource demonstrates atmospheric pressure using a soda bottle and water.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Osmosis

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch the water molecules move in this osmosis simulation.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How a Faucet Works

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students learn about the underlying engineering principals in the inner workings of a simple household object - the faucet. Students use the basic concepts of simple machines, force and fluid flow to describe the path of water through a...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Potential Energy: How Does It Work?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Describe the difference between energy in motion and at rest, and demonstrate energy's capacity for doing work. Draw a picture of water moving a turbine, and discuss other ways that a turbine might be made to move.
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Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Essentials of Weather

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A suite of lessons focusing on the basic elements of climate and weather. Inquiry-based exploration of extreme weather events and the factors of weather including clouds, wind, air pressure, temperature, and the water cycle.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Salts and Solubility

For Students 9th - 10th
Add different salts to water, then watch them dissolve and achieve a dynamic equilibrium with solid precipitate. Compare the number of ions in solution for highly soluble NaCl to other slightly soluble salts. Relate the charges on ions...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Microgravity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson students will use water balloons to simulate the effects of gravity and microgravity on fluid distribution in the body.
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BBC

Bbc: Earth: Tardigrades Return From the Dead

For Students 9th - 10th
Tardigrades are ancient, fascinating creatures that can survive conditions that would kill most life forms, including extreme heat and absolute zero, extreme pressure and a vacuum, and deadly radiation. They can even survive being...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Osmosis and Tonicity

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of osmosis and tonicity and looks at how osmosis works, as well as the role it plays in the water balance of cells. Describes hypertonic, isotonic, and hypotonic solutions and their effect on cells.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Cell Homeostasis: Osmosis

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how water flows in and out of solutions in this interactive tutorial.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Humidity, Evaporation, and Boiling

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to explain the relationship between vapor pressure of water and the capacity of air to hold water vapor, explain the relationship between relative humidity and partial pressure of water vapor...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Gas Mixtures and Molecular Speeds

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The following online tutorial helps students use Dalton's Law and mole fraction to calculate the partial pressure of a gas in a mixture. They will learn to calculate...
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Atmosphere and Oceans: Composition of Earth's Atmosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of the different parts of the atmosphere and how pressure and temperature changes at different altitudes.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Requirements for Human Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Earth and its atmosphere have provided us with air to breathe, water to drink, and food to eat, but these are not the only requirements for survival. Although you may rarely think about it, you also cannot live outside of a certain range...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Rock and Boat

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students observe Archimedes' principle in action in this challenge where a toy boat is placed in a container of water and a rock is placed on the floating boat. Students must explain why the water level rises/falls/stays the same based...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Do Hurricanes Cool the Ocean?

For Students 9th - 10th
If you've ever so much as watched a news clip about a hurricane, you probably know that hurricanes draw their power from warm ocean waters. If that is true, does it mean that hurricanes actually cool the ocean down when they pass...
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Other

Fundamentals of Reverse Osmosis

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a basic definition of reverse osmosis, with a bit of a slant on why water pretreatment is important.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Osmosis: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson explains the process of osmosis. It explains how osmosis is a passive form of transport, used to move water molecules across a semi-permeable membrane, down their concentration gradient. It is 2 of 8 in the series titled...

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