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Naming Inorganic Compounds
In this compounds worksheet, students read about the rules for naming inorganic compounds. Then students complete 2 graphic organizers by filling in the compound name, formula, and anion name.
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Science Spelling #2
In this science spelling learning exercise, students are given science word definitions, then fill in missing letters to form their matching spelling words. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Periodic Table
Students identify the periodic table trends and predict material properties. They also design and conduct simple experiments and test material properties. Finally, students compare and contrast material properties and that chemical...
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Grating Spectrometer
Students calculate the Balmer series. For this physics lesson, students observe hydrogen lamp spectra using spectrometers. They calculate wavelength and compare them with their theoretical calculations.
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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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Science-Introduction to the Unit on Matter
First graders gain knowledge about solids, liquids and gases by taking a look at the things around them. They have to classify certain picture cards based on which category they feel the picture falls under. As a whole, the class...
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Dinosaur I Finding And Dating
Students investigate how long dinosaurs lived on Earth and how that compare to how long man has been on Earth. They discover how scientists excavate fossils.
Curated OER
Naming Inorganic Compounds
In this compounds instructional activity, students review how to name inorganic compounds and then complete 2 graphic organizers naming the cations and anions.
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Radioactive Decay/Half Life
Students demonstrate radioactive decay using candy corns. In this Physics lesson, students make predictions, collect data and form conclusions about patterns in radioactive decay.
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Matter and Chemical Bonding
In this chemical bonding worksheet, students read about the invisible killer, dihydrogen monoxide. Students read about the products it is used in and the problems it causes to the environment. Then students complete 19 short answer...
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: It's Elemental Periodic Table of Elements
This page displays the Periodic Table of Elements and allows you to click each individual element for a page that displays in-depth information about that particular element. There are also links to many different games and learning...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Elements and Atoms, the Building Blocks of Matter
This site provides an overview of elements and atoms, the building blocks of matter.
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.
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.
Environmental Chemistry
Periodic Table of Elements: Gallium
A very detailed look at the element Gallium, a member of the Boron Group.
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: It's Elemental Element Math Game!
Learn how to read the periodic table of elements as you solve these Math questions about the number of protons, neutrons, electrons or nucleons in an atom of an element. You can choose how many questions to answer, and how complex they...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Elements
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores elements and their different properties, the history of elements, and how atoms relate to elements.
PBS
Nova: Atom Builder
Find out if you know enough about atoms to build them. The goal of the activity is to build an atom of a particular element by dragging the correct numbers of neutrons, protons and electrons into the atom.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Elements in the Universe
Students will use a graph of the relative abundance of elements in the Universe to determine relationships between size of the atoms and their abundance.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Building 3 D Models of Atoms
Students build atoms of elements 1-20. The entire set can be hung from the ceiling in order of the Periodic Table to be referred to throughout the Chemistry class/unit. This is helpful when teaching bonding and patterns of the Periodic...
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Atoms, Elements and Compounds
This lesson focuses on atoms and elements including what they are, the chemical symbols for elements, and the placement of elements on the periodic table. A link to a test is provided.
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Atoms
This site provides a detailed overview of atoms. Content explores an atom's structure, as well as what ions are, how atoms bond, what compounds are (including how to name compounds), and what isotopes are.
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Atoms and the Periodic Table
As part of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, this site examines a list of related topics (in hyperlink format) on the atom and the Periodic Table of elements. Topics from light, particles, and waves to the Bohr model, quantum...
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Lewis Dot Structures of Covalent Compounds
Short slide show provides basic information about drawing Lewis dot structures for covalent compounds. Starts with anatomy of the atom, and then shows the relationship between atomic particles and the Periodic Table of Elements. Offers...