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Chemsite: Pure Substances vs. Mixtures
An outline on the topics of pure substances and mixtures.
Other
Quantum Mysteries: Deepening Quantum Mysteries
Although it is arguably the most successful theory in physics, quantum physics has often baffled and confounded both its practitioners and the general public. This informative website discusses the types of mysteries, which still plague...
Concord Consortium
Concorde Consortium: What Are All Materials Made Of?
Activity 4 of this module determines: Which model best supports our observations? This activity reviews the evidence gathered in this investigation and considers how that evidence informs your model of matter. A timeline of the history...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Eric Cornell
Born in Palo Alto, California, and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts - homes to Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, respectively - you could say Eric Cornell was destined to become a renowned scientist. And while he...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: La Aventura De Las Particulas
Learn the fundamentals of particles and forces with this site. Explore the paths that explain matter in the universe.
Bill Nye
Bill Nye: Hole Y Water
This tutorial from Bill Nye uses an experiment with water and sugar to show how matter is mostly empty space.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids Science: Molecules
Kid's learn about the science of the molecules. Tiny chemistry and compounds of atoms and elements make up all matter.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Covalent Bonding
This interactive activity from ChemThink takes a closer look at a covalent bond: how it is formed and how the sharing of two electrons can keep atoms together.
Physics4kids
Physics 4 Kids: Where Traditional Physics Stops
We're about to move into the modern age of physics. In the early 1800's, scientists began examining the basis of matter, space, and time. Sometimes it gets very confusing, but the big idea is that Newton's physics describe about 90% of...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Conservation of Mass: Lesson 2
This lesson explains the law of conservation of mass within chemical reaction with audio and quiz questions.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Light Waves: Interactive Lesson
Light is all around you, with wavelengths bigger than mountains and smaller than atoms. Learn about light waves, and the ways in which light interacts with matter, with this lesson plan.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Joseph John Thomson
Joseph John Thomson, better known as J. J. Thomson, was a British physicist who first theorized and offered experimental evidence that the atom was a divisible entity rather than the basic unit of matter, as was widely believed at the...