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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Body Control Center

For Students 5th - 9th
Throughout the day, your nervous system monitors and makes endless adjustments to your body's basic systems--all to keep you alive. This interactive feature illustrates the complexity of such a task.
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Other

Nuclear Threat Initiative: The Nuclear Threat

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses countries and the weapons of mass destruction they possess. Includes interactives features.
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eSchool Today

E School Today: Energy

For Students 4th - 8th
Explains different kinds of energy, covering kinetic, potential, gravitational, mechanical, sound, thermal, chemical, electrical, and radiant energy. Also looks at storage, transfer, and dissipation of energy. Includes a short...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Work, Energy, and Power in Humans

For Students 9th - 10th
In the following interactive students will begin to explain the human body's consumption of energy when at rest vs. when engaged in activities that do useful work. They will also calculate the conversion of chemical energy in food into...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Biology: Energy Transformations

For Students 9th - 10th
Through interactive learning exercises, students examine the different definitions of energy and how enzymes regulate how the energy is stored and used during cellular respiration. They also take a close look at photosynthesis to learn...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Geology: Surface Processes

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive tutorial, you will learn about the types of weathering and erosion that rocks and landforms undergo. This will lead to a discussion of soil and the types of soil. Lastly, you will learn about mass movements of soil,...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Air Pollution

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students are introduced to the concept of air quality by investigating the composition, properties, atmospheric layers and everyday importance of air. They explore the sources and effects of visible and invisible air pollution. By...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Science Tutorial: Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing matter straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own learning experiences as you take part in this interactive tutorial. [1:02]
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Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Current Collection of Virtual Lab Problems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A collection of over 30 virtual chemistry problems with accompanying interactive activities. Each problem includes a word file for potential differentiation in your classroom.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: 5 Question Survey: Chemical Change

For Students 6th - 8th
Find out your or your students' basic knowledge of concepts like matter, molecules and open and closed systems. Afterwards you can see how others answered the questions.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Rising Ice Experiment

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Observe how ice and salt crystals interact by using salt to help adhere a string to the top of an ice cube in a glass of water, then lift the cube out of the water.
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Museum of Science

The Atoms Family

For Students 3rd - 8th
Let this classic family of monsters guide you as you learn about energy. Interactive exercises, experiments, and demonstrations help to build knowledge and raise questions.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Making and Breaking Bonds: The Effect of Temperature

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore how temperature affects chemical reactions.
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Chemistry Simulation: Flat vs. Fizzy Soda

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Explore Le Chatelier's Principle by changing the volume, pressure, and temperature in a bottle of soda. Try carbonating the soda to see how adding a reactant affects the chemical equilibrium.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Surface Tension Lab

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students extend their understanding of surface tension by exploring the real-world engineering problem of deciding what makes a "good" soap bubble. Student teams first measure this property, and then use this measurement to determine the...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Tension Racers!

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students see how different levels of surface tension affect water's ability to move. Teams "race" water droplets down tracks made of different materials, making measurements, collecting data, making calculations, graphing results and...
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McREL International

Mc Rel: Glue Polymer (Whelmer #15 Learning Activity)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
An easy to do activity that investigates the basic principles behind chemical bonding. The activity is written in lesson plan format that meets NSES standards.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Reaction Between Hydrogen and Oxygen Atoms

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore energy during a reaction between hydrogen and oxygen atoms.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Compounds and Elements: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will present a basic overview of elements and how they interact in chemical reactions and compound formations. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Compounds and Elements."
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Other

King's Centre for Visualization in Science: Scientific Models

For Students 9th - 10th
A series of interactive applets use scientific models to teach some basic concepts of matter, including states of matter and physical and chemical changes.
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PBS

Pbs: The Science of Fire

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A virtual experiment bringing you to the center of combustion! Understand how fire ignites, what makes a flame, and how molecules rearrange themselves in chemical reactions. This interactive activity gives students four different...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Visualizing Molecules in Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lab, students will explore the motion of molecules, the forces involved in making them move and predict the level of interaction that molecules can have in order to better understand chemical reactions.
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Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Jefferson Lab: Element Matching Game

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this resource to practice memorizing the names for the chemical symbols. This interactive resource has a function that will check your answers.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Floating Metal Pins Discrepant Event/guided Inquiry on Surface Tension

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through a combination of an interactive demonstration and guided inquiry, students learn the basic nature of surface tension in liquids.