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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Phases of Matter: Interactive Lesson

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the three phases of matter, and how the addition and removal of thermal energy (also known as heat) affects them.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: College Physics: Phase Changes

For Students 11th - 12th
Learn about the phases of matter in this section of a college textbook. Section defines the phases of matter and discusses how to interpret a phase diagram. Also explored is partial pressures and Dalton's Law. Section also includes...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Freezing and Phase Change: How Do You Make Ice Cream?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars will be expanding a study of phase changes after experiences with exploration of the three phases of matter. They apply what they have learned through freezing water and create a tasty ice cream treat.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: What Is a Fluid?

For Students 11th - 12th
From a chapter on Fluid Statics in a Physics textbook. This introductory section of the chapter covers the three common phases of matter, their physical properties, and how atoms are arranged in solids, liquids, and gases. Includes a...
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Phase Changes

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity reviews of states of matter, then relates them to atomic movement as it is affected by attractions between atoms and the addition of energy. Latent heat and evaporative cooling are also topics covered. Multiple-choice and...
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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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University of Colorado

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

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive simulation will heat, cool and compress atoms and molecules. Watch as they change between solid, liquid and gas phases. Recognize that different substances have different properties which will affect the temperatures for...
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University of Colorado

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

For Students 3rd - 8th
After watching this simulation, students will be able to describe characteristics of the three states of matter. They will watch as atoms and molecules change between solid, liquid and gas phases.
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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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Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: States of Matter

For Students 5th - 8th
This resource explains the five states of matter and methods of changing from one state to another.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Chemistry Simulation: Phase Change

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Explore how heat and temperature relate to phase changes.
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: Press Release: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016

For Students 9th - 10th
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 with one-half to David J. Thouless of University of Washington and the other half to both F. Duncan M. Haldane of Princeton University and J....
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: Fluid Statics: What Is a Fluid?

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to state the common phases of matter; explain the physical characteristics of solids, liquids, and gases; and describe the arrangement of atoms in solids, liquids, and gases.
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Museum of Science

The Atom's Family: Phases of Matter

For Students 3rd - 8th
Help the Phantom choose a material and observe the changes at different temperatures in the molecule chamber. What happens to the elements or molecules as the temperature changes?
Activity
Center of Science and Industry

Cosi Columbus: Can You Stand the Pressure

For Students 9th - 10th
Science experiment that demonstrates the four states or phases of matter: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of how you change water from a liquid state to a gaseous...
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Other

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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Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tar Heel Reader: Three Kinds of Matter: Solids, Liquids, and Gases

For Students 3rd - 5th
Find out about the three states of matter: solids, liquids, and gases.
Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: The Changing State of Matter

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about the changing states of matter.
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Crescent Public Schools

The Internet Science Room: The Kinetic Theory & Phase Change

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial helps students understand the Kinetic Theory, which explains the effects of temperature and pressure on matter as it goes through phase changes.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Exploring States of Matter Gases

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this series of chemistry labs, students learn about the three states of matter by observing how molecules contract or expand as they change state.
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CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Heat and States of Matter

For Students 6th - 8th
Learn how states of matter can change as heat is added to a system.
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Chem Tutor

Chem Tutor: States of Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
A very descriptive site that allows students to understand the different states of matter at the atomic level. Also discusses the process of phase changes and displays phase change graphs. Thermochemistry is also touched upon for high...
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Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Changing States of Matter

For Students 4th - 8th
Find out how matter can change from one state to another.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Carl Edwin Wieman

For Students 9th - 10th
Carl Edwin Wieman is one of three physicists credited with the discovery of a fifth phase of matter, for which he was awarded a share of the prestigious Nobel Prize in 2001. The recognition capped a distinguished career that began deep...

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