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Science4 Us: Changes in Matter

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Through an instructional video, games, and activities, students explore three types of change matter makes: physical change, in which only the shape of the matter changes; physical phase change in which matter changes to a different form...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Changes in Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students identify the chemical properties of a substance and describe chemical changes and differentiate them from physical changes....
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Fifth Grade: Physical Science: Physical and Chemical Changes in Matter

For Students 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Provides the definitions of physical and chemical changes in matter and gives examples. The law of conservation of mass is also described.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Changes in Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will describe methods for separating mixtures, such as chromatography, distillation, fractional distillation, evaporation, and filtration. They will also...
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Utah STEM Foundation

Utah Stem Action Center: Changes in Matter

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The goal of this activity is to develop and use a model to describe that matter is made of particles on a scale that is too small to be seen. You will be making observations of changes supported by a particle model of matter.
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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.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Changes in Matter What Kind of Change Is It?

For Students 9th - 10th
Can you distinguish physical changes from chemical changes? After reading a brief summary of both types of changes, you'll be presented with some examples and asked to identify them.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Changes in Matter Chemical Reactions They're Everywhere

For Students 9th - 10th
Can you distinguish physical changes from chemical reactions? You'll be presented with a number of pictures and asked to identify those which are examples of chemical reactions.
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Classifying Matter and Changes in Matter

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn to identify changes in matter and explain what happens as matter changes. The lesson is supplemented with several experiments to reinforce key concepts.
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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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Utah Education Network

Uen: Matter, It Does!

For Teachers 1st
In this activity students identify forms and changes of matter.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
Step into Dirtmeister's Science Lab as he explores the challenge question: "How can you force a physical change in matter?" Learn about matter, make your predictions and then do the experiment.
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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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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Concepts, Classification and States of Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Freshly baked bread and cherry pie are two delicious parts of any meal. What happens to the ingredients that go into the bread and the pie as they are heated in the...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Netherlands: What Are Permanent and Temporary Changes?

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students match a substance with its state of matter, identify what state something is, and learn about temporary and permanent changes in matter.
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Study Stack: Changes in Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
An online flashcard deck that reviews properties of matter. Test your knowledge of matter, chemical changes, and physical changes. Site allows you to put flashcards into two sections, those you know and those you don't. After separating...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Finding the Carbon in Sugar

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn that fossil fuels release energy when they are burned, and this takes the forms of light, heat, gases, etc. For this lesson they explore combustion with a candle and with sugar. The lesson and accompanying PowerPoint can...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Properties of Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial, students will begin to understand a substance according to its physical properties. Learn to distinguish between extensive and intensive...
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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Changing State: Melting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Discover the concept that energy transfer and molecular motion cause the change in state from a solid to a liquid. Also compare state changes of water to the state changes of other substances.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Changes of State: Chemical and Physical Changes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this chemistry lab, students will investigate, observe, and describe a variety of chemical and physical changes in matter. They will understand that this is part of everyday life.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Who Says a Watched Pot Never Boils?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students' will investigate what causes phase changes in matter.They use a temperature sensor to measure the temperature of a substance and identify visual clues to the phase changes.
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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...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Science Detectives

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are given a scenario for this lesson where they must use investigative skills like a detective would to decide whether changes that happen to objects in the story are physical or chemical. They then conduct an experiment with...
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: States of Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
Using simulations observe what solids, liquids, and gases look like at the atomic scale. After observing the different states of matter at their atomic level, students will be able to conclude about the forces and attractions that exist...

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