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Food Energy and Nutrients
In this food energy and nutrients learning exercise, learners fill in the blank and complete a chart with information about food energy and essential nutrients needed for the body. Using the Nelson text, students complete a chart about...
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What's Cooking
Students complete a solar radiation activity. In this solar radiation lesson plan, students complete an experiment to learn about solar radiation. Students make solar tea by using the energy of the Sun to brew tea.
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Chemistry
In this chemistry activity, students describe an atom, its parts, the charges of these parts, and atoms life functions. Then they explain what the octet rule states for the placements of electrons around the nucleus of an atom. Students...
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Water and Diffusion
In this water and diffusion activity, students will explore the characteristics of water and the water molecule. Students will also answer questions about diffusion and the movement of materials due to concentration differences. This...
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Field Trip to test Water Quality
Students examine water quality indicators,test water quality and record their results. In this water quality lesson students complete a water testing lab and complete a lab report.
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Motion
For this science worksheet, students apply themselves to the acquisition of new vocabulary while solving the crossword puzzle.
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It's Just Right
Students conduct an experiment to determine the temperature tolerance of yeasts. In this biology lesson, students collect data and compare them by plotting graphs. They explain how extreme temperatures affect organisms.
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Synthesizing Pigment and Dyeing Cloth
Pupils create a synthetic dye and oxidize the dye and record the effects.
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Tracking Ozone
Learners track an ozone event in Groton, CT. They compare weather changes and the subsequent ozone levels. Also, they make comparisons and determinations about ozone levels.
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Science: What Happens to Create the Lode?
Students understand how mineral deposits are formed and why they are not evenly dispersed. They create and describe three different precipitates from four solutions simulating mineral ore deposit formation in sedimentary rock.
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Urban Impact on Chollas Creek (California): A Field Study
Students, in groups, take samples from a creek and keep a field journal on their samples. They also perform tests on their samples.
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Moore S Word Search Puzzle 1
In this literacy activity, middle schoolers find the words that are in the word search puzzle that focus upon the vocabulary that is from the theme of the sheet.
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How Do I Get a Pure Sample of the Molecules I Make?
Students initially engage in online research and consult print materials to identify a compound to produce. Once a selection has been made, individually, students conduct lab experiments to isolate substances. The end product is a...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How to Speed Up Chemical Reactions (And Get a Date)
This video explores by analogy what factors speed up reaction rates in chemical reactions. [4:56] Includes a brief quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
Chiral Publishing
Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Process of Chemical Reactions [Pdf]
This chemistry chapter covers everything about chemical reactions. Read about the collision theory, rates of chemical reactions, reversible reactions, and chemical equilibrium. Many pictures and graphs will help to explain the concepts.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Chemical Reactions
This web-based activity gives students an opportunity to write chemical reactions, balance chemical equations, and explain what is happening during a given chemical reaction. Also addressed is the effects of concentration and temperature...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Chemical Reactions and Stoichiometry
In this activity, students explore reactions in which chemical bonds are formed and broken. Students experiment with changing the temperature and the concentration of the atoms in order to see how these affect reaction rates. They also...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Can You Change the Rate of a Chemical Reaction?
The ingredients in Alka-Seltzer tablets undergo a chemical reaction that produces carbon dioxide gas as soon as the tablets hit water. Do you think you can cause the tablets to produce gas faster by breaking them into smaller pieces...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Factors Influencing Rates of Chemical Reactions
This lab investigates the factors that influence rates of reactions. Students will develop a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, collect data, then draw a conclusion based on the data.
Concord Consortium
The Molecular Workbench Database: Chemical Reactions and Stoichiometry
This simulation helps students investigate the basics of chemical equations. Students will review stoichiometry and what effects their reaction rates.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Controlling Chemical Reactions
This lesson focuses on comparing the reaction rate of chemical reactions with different surface areas.
Crescent Public Schools
The Internet Science Room: Chemical Reaction Rates
This tutorial provides an explanation of reaction rates in chemical reactions with examples and sample problems.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Rates of Reactions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this module, students will practice expressing the rates of chemical reactions, and they will also describe the collision theory as it relates to chemical reactions.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Reversible Reactions
Watch a reaction proceed over time. How does total energy affect a reaction rate? This model represents an analogy of chemical reactions.