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Curated OER

Ice Cream

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students are shown an experiment making ice cream while discovering the freezing point depression. There are questions for students to answer after the demostration.
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Curated OER

Freshwater Macroinvertebrates

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify and count Macroinvertebrates at a Hydrology website.  In this macroinvertebrates instructional activity students collect, sort and identify Macroinvertebrates.
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Curated OER

The Electric Sieve

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine different mixtures and how they can be separated.  In this electric sieve lesson students complete an activity that allows them to separate mixtures.
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Curated OER

Into the Pond

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders use a pond to explore macroinvertebrates and other organisms. They use a dichotomous key to classify the organisms and maintain a journal recording their findings.
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Curated OER

What Trout Need

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners investigate the important components for a healthy trout habitat. In this fish habitat lesson, students discuss how the aquarium will simulate a trout's environment in nature. Learners complete a trout information sheet to set...
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Human Impacts on Marine Species

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about three examples of human impacts on marine life: migration patterns and shipping, algal blooms and water chemistry, and marine debris. Some of these impacts are due to human activity in the ocean, and some impacts on...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Evidence of Chemistry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
The young scholars will learn to identify evidence that a chemical reaction has taken place. They will use the Internet to research evidence and find examples. They will look around their school and neighborhood for examples. They will...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Changes of State: Chemical and Physical Changes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this chemistry lab, students will investigate, observe, and describe a variety of chemical and physical changes in matter. They will understand that this is part of everyday life.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Beneath the Sea: Light Stick Chemistry

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Explore chemiluminescence and describe how the temperature of the chemicals that combine in a light stick affects the reaction. Apply that knowledge to understand bioluminescence in deep-sea marine life.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Basically Acids

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn the basics of acid/base chemistry in a fun, interactive way by studying instances of acid/base chemistry found in popular films such as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and National Treasure. Students learn what...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

For Teachers 7th - 9th
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is an interesting and somewhat publicized environmental problem. A swirling soup of trash up to 10 meters deep and just below the water surface is composed mainly of non-degradable plastics. These...

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