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Texas Gateway: Solids, Liquids, and Gases

For Students 9th - 10th
Given descriptions, scenarios, or illustrations, students will distinguish between the compressibility, structure, shape, and volume of solids, liquids, and gases.
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Texas Gateway: Specifically Speaking About Heat Capacity

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides alternative or additional tier-one learning options to help students understand the concept of specific heat capacity.
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Texas Gateway: The Moon Lunar Cycle and Tides

For Students 9th - 10th
Given models and illustrations, students will identify, demonstrate, and predict the sequence of events in the lunar cycle and relate the position of the moon and sun to their effect on ocean tides.
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Texas Gateway: Thermochemical Equations

For Students 9th - 10th
Given descriptions, diagrams, scenarios, or chemical symbols, students will calculate the energy changes and identify exothermic and endothermic reactions.
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Texas Gateway: Types of Solutions:saturated, Supersaturated, Unsaturated

For Students 9th - 10th
Given scenarios, graphs, diagrams, or illustrations, the student will determine the type of solution such as saturated, supersaturated, or unsaturated.
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Texas Gateway: Water

For Students 9th - 10th
Given scenarios, descriptions, or illustrations, the student will determine the properties of water that affect chemical and biological systems.
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Texas Gateway: Estimating and Solving for Volume of Pyramids

For Students 7th - 8th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to calculate the volume of a pyramid and how this compares to the volume of a prism. Then solve problems about the volume of rectangular and triangular pyramids....
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Texas Gateway: Comparing and Explaining Transformations

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Given rotations, reflections, translations, and dilations, students will be able to develop algebraic representations for rotations and generalize and then compare and contrast the properties of congruence transformations and...
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Texas Gateway: Using Models to Connect to and Understand Volume Formulas

For Students 7th - 8th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] The student will use models to develop formulas and connect them to the volume of prisms, spheres, cylinders, pyramids, and cones.
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Texas Gateway: Evaluating Solutions for Reasonableness

For Students 7th - 8th
Given problem situations, the student will determine if the solutions are reasonable.
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Texas Gateway: Graphing Data to Demonstrate Relationships

For Students 6th - 7th
Given problem situations, the student will graph data with a constant rate of change to demonstrate relationships in familiar concepts, such as scaling.
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Texas Gateway: Using Models to Solve Equations

For Students 6th - 7th
Given a problem, the student will use concrete and pictorial models to solve equations and use symbols to record their actions.
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Texas Gateway: Applying the Order of Operations

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
Given a numerical expression including whole number exponents and prime factorization, students will use the order of operations to generate an equivalent expression.
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Texas Gateway: Using Logical Reasoning to Prove Conjectures About Circles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given conjectures about circles, the student will use deductive reasoning and counterexamples to prove or disprove the conjectures.
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Texas Gateway: Recognizing Misuses of Graphical or Numerical Information

For Students 6th - 8th
Given a problem situation, the student will analyze data presented in graphical or tabular form by evaluating the predictions and conclusions based on the information given.
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Texas Gateway: Ready for an Energy Makeover?

For Students 9th - 10th
Sometimes these are changes that happen routinely in the natural world, and sometimes these are "makeovers" where human creations transform energy into a specific form that serves a specific need. Either way, we call these changes energy...
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Texas Gateway: Competition of Abiotic and Biotic Factors

For Students 7th - 9th
This tutorial explores abiotic and biotic factors with videos and interactive activities.
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Texas Gateway: Cell Processes: Photosynthesis

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this tutorial to get an overview of the process of photosynthesis.
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Texas Gateway: Gravitational Force

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This resource provides flexible alternate or additional learning activities for students learning about the gravitational attraction between objects of different masses at...
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Texas Gateway: Homeostasis Succession

For Students 9th - 10th
Given scenarios, illustrations, or descriptions, the student will identify the process of ecological succession and the impact that succession has on populations and species diversity.
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Texas Gateway: Investigating and Comparing Life Cycles

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learn about plant and animal life cycles through this 5E structured module.
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Texas Gateway: Ionic and Covalent Bonding

For Students 9th - 10th
In this tutorial, students learn about ionic and covalent bonds and predict which elements will form which type of bond. Includes interactive exercises as well as videos.
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Texas Gateway: Kinetic and Potential Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Given diagrams, illustrations or relevant data, students will identify examples of kinetic and potential energy and their transformations.
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Texas Gateway: Kinetic Molecular Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This resources allows students to explore the postulates of the Kinetic Molecular Theory in order to better understand why gas particles behave the way that they do.