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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Temperature

For Students 10th - 12th
Read and view examples and formulas about temperature, its measurement by thermometers, and its relationship to thermal equilibrium.
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NASA

Nasa: Gas Properties Definitions

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to learn about basic gas properties including motion, viscosity, and compressibility. Includes links to activities for all ages.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Temperature

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this interactive tutorial students will learn the physics definition of temperature, how temperature is measured and how to convert the units of temperature...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Specific Heat

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students explore the concept of specific heat, learn how it is calculated, and find out how different materials have different specific heat values.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Are Pv Diagrams?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn what PV diagrams are and how to use them to find the change in internal energy, work done, and heat.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is Thermal Conductivity?

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this article to learn how to determine the rate at which heat conducts through a material.
eBook
Chiral Publishing

Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Effect of Temperature on Solubility

For Students 9th - 10th
This online textbook section explains how the solubility of gases in a liquid decrease as the temperature increases. Use a chart and example to help understand how the Second Law of Thermodynamics has an effect on this. Also find links...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: How Does Nature Know Which Way Is Forward?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Through critical thinking, students realize that spontaneous events happen in a certain order. This lesson presents an examination of the Second Law of Thermodynamics using a thought story, rubber band inquiry, discrepant event and lecture.
eBook
Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Free Energy and Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 10th
With an overview of topics related to chemical equilibrium, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and free energy. Topics covered include the equilibrium constant, equilibrium and temperature, coupled reactions,...
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Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: The Equilibrium Constant

For Students 9th - 10th
With an overview of topics related to chemical equilibrium, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and equilibrium. Included in the discussion with the equilibrium constant are topics such as equilibrium and...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: The Meissner Effect

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia.com offers a wonderful introduction and explanation of the Meissner effect, explaining how this effect qualifies superconduction as a true thermodynamic state of a material.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Carnot Heat Engine

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers information on the Carnot heat engine that uses a particular thermodynamic cycle developed by Nicolas Carnot in 1820.
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Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: The Heat Capacity

For Students 9th - 10th
With an overview of topics related to chemical energetics, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and its relation the heat capacity or specific heat.
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Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Hess' Law and Thermochemical Calculations

For Students 9th - 10th
With an overview of topics related to chemical energetics, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and its relation Hess's law and enthalpies of combustion.
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Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Calorimetry

For Students 9th - 10th
With an overview of topics related to chemical energetics, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and calorimetry. Other topics covered include calorimeter constant, bomb calorimetry, and more.
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Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Enthalpy Diagrams

For Students 9th - 10th
With an overview of topics related to chemical energetics, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and its relation to enthalpy. Topics covered include bond enthalpies and bond energies, energy content of fuels,...
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Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand the rates and mechanisms of chemical change. These topics stand in contrast to the subjects of equilibrium and thermodynamics that control the direction of chemical change.
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University of Waterloo (Canada)

University of Waterloo: Chemical Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information on Chemical Energy. It includes concepts of chemical thermodynamics, including a lengthy section about the standard enthalpy of formation.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Guide on Interpolation vs. Extrapolation

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what interpolation and extrapolation are and methods used for them in statistics. Gives real-world examples of their applications in telecommunications, engineering, thermodynamics etc.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Chemistry: Thermochemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
Through informational text, interactive practice problems, online labs, and virtual simulations, students are introduced to the concepts of thermochemistry.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Huddle and Cuddle: How Puppies Keep Warm

For Students 9th - 10th
In this mammalian biology science fair project, students will determine how much huddling reduces heat loss in warm-blooded animals. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and...
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: The Greenhouse Effect

For Students 9th - 10th
How do greenhouse gases affect the climate? Explore the atmosphere during the ice age and today.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Reversible Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch a reaction proceed over time. How does total energy affect a reaction rate? This model represents an analogy of chemical reactions.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: University of Colorado: Gas Properties

For Students 9th - 10th
Pump gas molecules to a box and see what happens as the volume changes, add or remove heat, change gravity, and more. Measure the temperature and pressure, and discover how the properties of the gas vary in relation to each other....

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