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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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Code Makers - Electron Configuration, Aufbau Principle
Students write the electron configuration of elements using the Aufbau principle. In this chemistry lesson, students build their own key that demonstrates the principle.
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Nutrient Biochemistry
In this lipids worksheet, students review the different types of lipids and how lipids are used by the body. This worksheet has 3 drawings and 27 fill in the blank statements.
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Oxidation Numbers
In this oxidation numbers worksheet, students determine the oxidation number for given elements and draw Lewis Dot Diagrams. This worksheet has 6 fill in the blank and 11 short answer questions.
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Density, Iron, and Anemia
Pupils explain what factors determine density. For this physics lesson, students hypothesize which objects are less dense. They cite the importance of density in everyday life.
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The Great Gas Race
Fourth graders improve their understanding of Graham's Law by using properties of gases to evaluate the rate of effusion of two compounds as they vaporize. They engage in a lab which elevates their understanding of the properties of gases.
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Cell Respiration Worksheet
Beginning biologists demonstrate their grasp on cellular respiration, photosynthesis, and energy flow though ecosystems when completing this worksheet. Fifteen multiple choice and short answer questions test their knowledge. Because of...
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Module 5 Revision Guide - Chemistry
If you use this as an outline for your chemistry lecture on metals, your young chemists will absorb a well-rounded overview. This is not a worksheet per se, but a useful summary of the behavior of metals. Save yourself some planning and...
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Comets
Young scholars explore the nature and composition of a comet. They research comet facts, legends, and myths. They identify different types of comets and describe what happens to a comet as it travels closer to the Sun.
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Molecular Models Laboratory
Students use models to visualize molecular structures. Students read about Lewis dot structures, hybridization, and formal charge. Then students build and draw the molecules and ions given. Students complete 11 pre-lab questions and 4...
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UV light & Ozone layer
Middle-school meteorologists absorb information about ultraviolet radiaton and consider the ozone layer. The book that learners are supposed to refer to is not available, so you might want to locate some graphics or posters...
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Natural Gas Lesson-How Natural Gas Forms
Students examine background natural gas and how it is formed and what it is made of. Titles within the series include How Natural Gas Forms, What Happens to Natural Gas when it is burned, and How Natural Gas can be used. Provides very...
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Elements and the Periodic Table
Learners are introduced to the elements on the Periodic Table and what is meant by element. Using the Table, they identify the name, atomic mass, number and symbol of each element. To end the lesson, they discover the characteristics...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Mole in Chemistry: Determining the Number of Atoms in Everyday Items
Students explore the concept of the mole as a measure of quantity. They build spreadsheets that allow them to convert between moles, grams, and atomic mass units for given quantities of everyday items, elements, and simple chemical...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Chemical Bonds
This interactive activity developed for Teachers' Domain demonstrates how attractive forces between atoms create chemical bonds, resulting in the formation of molecules and compounds.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Chemistry for Kids: Naming Chemical Compounds
Learn about naming chemical compounds in chemistry including conventions, the order of the elements, metals, non-metals, acids, and examples on naming on this site.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Bond Hybridization
Practice determining the hybridization for atoms in covalent compounds. Use the interactive scratch pad to work out the problems.
Museum of Science
The Atom's Family: Mighty Molecules
In this activity, students construct models of molecules using marshmallows and gum drops.
Crescent Public Schools
The Internet Science Room: Chemical Formulas
This illustrated tutorial serves as a foundation for understanding chemical formulas in chemistry.
Chem Tutor
Chem Tutor: Chemistry: Compounds
This lesson focuses on chemical compounds including Ionic and Covalent Bonds, Valences, Lewis Structures, Binary Covalent Compounds, Radicals or Polyatomic Ions, and much more. It also includes a compound worksheet in which the young...
National Institutes of Health
Ncbi: The Molecular Biology of the Cell: The Chemical Components of a Cell
Advanced chapter of the book "The Molecular Biology of the Cell" describes and provides illustrations of our most current understanding of the chemical makeup of cells and their components. Explains in detail how electron activity keeps...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Bond Hybridization
Practice determining the hybridization for atoms in covalent compounds.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Polarity and Intermolecular Forces
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The following online tutorial describes how the electronegativity difference between two atoms in a covalent bond results in the formation of a nonpolar covalent,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Mixtures and Solutions
This unit covers introductory concepts of mixtures and solutions. Students think about how mixtures and solutions, and atoms and molecules can influence new technologies developed by engineers. The first lesson explores the fundamentals...