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...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids Science: Elements
Kid's learn about the science of chemical elements. Basic forms of matter made from a single type of atom.
Other
Chemsite: Pure Substances vs. Mixtures
An outline on the topics of pure substances and mixtures.
Able Media
On the Nature of the Universe: Study Guide
A study guide for Lucretius's work, "On the Nature of the Universe."
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Dalton's Atomic Theory
Resource investigates the beliefs of Dalton's atomic theory which consists of four parts. Which points do we still use today, and what have we learned since Dalton?
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Put a Spark in It! Electricity
Uncountable times every day "with the merest flick of a finger"each one of us calls on electricity to do our bidding. What would your life be like without electricity? Students begin learning about electricity with an introduction to the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Periodic Table of the Elements Essay
This essay, written for Teachers' Domain, describes the foresight and pattern recognition that Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev used to develop the modern periodic table of elements.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Introduction to Motion
What do you think of when you hear the word motion? Are you moving right now? You may not think so, but you are. Remember, the Earth is moving around the Sun, and the Sun is moving around the Milky Way Galaxy. Everything in the universe...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Periodic Table of the Elements
This interactive periodic table developed for Teachers' Domain provides detailed information about the chemical properties of elements and illustrates the electron configurations that determine those characteristics.
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.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Periodic Table
Students explore the periodic table and learn the basic information given for elements: the name, symbol, atomic number, and atomic mass for each element.
Mathigon
Mathigon: Probability and Discrete Math: True Randomness
This lesson focuses on randomness; it explains that what we often think of as random is only random because we do not have the tools to make better predictions. However, true randomness does exists -- at the very foundations of matter. A...
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...
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...
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.
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.