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American Chemical Society

American Chemical Society: Explore Chemistry: Water and Chemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore water's unique properties in the activities here. Includes ideas for starting a chemistry club, ideas for Earth Day, articles, and videos.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Lab Equipment

For Students 3rd - 8th
In the following lesson students will be introduced to general and specialized lab equipment.
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: Bose Einstein Condensation in Alkali Gas [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This 14-page document contains advanced information about Bose-Einstein condensation, providing historical background for the topic and explaining how BEC was demonstrated in 1995 by research laboratories. Requires ."pdf," software to...
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US Geological Survey

U.s. Geological Survey: What Is the Water Cycle?

For Students 9th - 10th
A quick summary of the water cycle that includes a diagram of the cycle, with links to in-depth explanations of each component of the cycle. Click "water-cycle home" to access water-cycle resources in a variety of languages.
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Other

Imperial College London: Brownian Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
An advanced level description of the nature of Brownian motion. Brownian motion, a model formulated to predict matters involving uncertain elements, is related to medical imaging, fractals, robotics, aerosol particles, and stock market...
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University of Chicago

Ancient Mesopotamia: The First Farmers [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson our class can try an experiment to show how constant irrigation, with repeated evaporation of water that left salts in the soil, eventually ruined much farming land in southern Mesopotamia.Learners can fill a clear glass...
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: What Makes Water Special?

For Students 9th - 10th
Activity 2 investigates Why is water different from other liquids? This activity will investigate properties of different liquids. Students will explore what makes honey gooey and thicker than water. And why some liquids evaporate faster...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: A Day at the Beach Adventure 9

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students compare the heating rates of wet sand and dry sand and study the effect of evaporation on heating rates. They create, interpret and analyze graphs of data. They also relate slope to rate of change.
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Ancestry

Rootsweb: The Creek War

For Students 9th - 10th
Following the Revolutionary War, more and more settlers began to migrate into what was the territory of the Indians. By the early 19th century, there was open hostilty between whites and Indians. Farmers wanted more land and the Indians...
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Concord Consortium

What Happens to the Energy of Water Molecules During Hurricanes?

For Students 9th - 10th
How does energy charge when evaporation is reversed? and What powers a hurricane? are explored in this module.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: What Happens to the Energy of Water Molecules During Hurricanes?

For Students 9th - 10th
In this investigation students will add energy to the model of how molecules interact by completing the following activities. Activity 1 What does boiling do to water molecules? Activity 2 How hot can water go? Activity 3 How does energy...
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Other

Warmair.com: Refrigeration Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
The expansion-compression-condensation cycle of a refrigerator is discussed and explained. Understandable language but no graphics.
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eSchool Today

E School Today: Your Revision Notes on the Water Cycle

For Students 4th - 8th
Learn about the different stages of the Earth's water cycle, and about processes involving water, including runoff, infiltration, and the differences between hard and soft water.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Chemistry of Cold Packs

For Students 9th - 10th
If you stick water in the freezer, it will take a few hours to freeze into ice. How is it, then, that cold packs go from room temperature to near freezing in mere seconds? John Pollard details the chemistry of the cold pack, shedding...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Investigate Mpemba Effect Can Hot Water Freeze Faster Than Cold

For Students 9th - 10th
This physics project seems like it should have an easy answer. Instead, it turns out to be a great illustration of why it is important to base scientific conclusions on the outcome of controlled experiments. Things don't always turn out...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: What's the Fastest Way to Cool a Soda?

For Students 9th - 10th
When you are craving an ice cold drink of soda, the last thing you want is to be stuck with a bunch of soda cans at room temperature. This fun science experiment sends you on a discovery to find the fastest way to cool soda with...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: How Much Water Do Humans Need?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson students learn how much water is used and lost during a variety of common daily activities. Student sheets are provided in English and in Spanish.
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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Chapter 2: Changes of State

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Five chemistry lessons about phase changes between the states of mattter complete with handouts and animations.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Sun and the Water Cycle

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learn about the water cycle through the adventures of two sisters. They will explain how the sun powers the water cycle and describe the different states of water. A glossary and labeled illustrations accompany the video. For the...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Moving Without Wheels

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In a class demonstration, students observe a simple water cycle model to better understand its role in pollutant transport. This activity shows one way in which pollution is affected by the water cycle; it simulates a point source of...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Natural and Urban "Stormwater" Water Cycle Models

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students apply their understanding of the natural water cycle and the urban stormwater water cycle, as well as the processes involved in both cycles to hypothesize how the flow of water is affected by altering precipitation.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Science Education Center: Make It Rain

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
How do you show students that the water cycle is more than just the traditional model of the ocean, clouds, and mountains and actually a part of their daily lives? This video will show multiple models of different part of the water cycle...
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Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Liquids

For Students 3rd - 8th
This overview of liquids explores what a liquid is and how matter becomes changes into a liquid.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: The Water Cycle

For Students 3rd - 5th
Great colorful chart of the water cycle, with background information. Provides additional links for more information on the water cycle.

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