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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Activation Energy: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain how activation energy is needed to start a chemical reaction. It is 3 of 5 in the series titled "Activation Energy."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Activation Energy: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain how activation energy is needed to start a chemical reaction. It is 4 of 5 in the series titled "Activation Energy."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Activation Energy: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain how activation energy is needed to start a chemical reaction. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Activation Energy."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Fission and Fusion: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain how fission and fusion in chemical reactions can be used to produce energy. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Fission and Fusion."
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Hydrogen Oxygen Reaction Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lab exercise exposes students to a potentially new alternative energy source-hydrogen gas. Student teams are given a hydrogen generator and an oxygen generator. They balance the chemical equation for the combustion of hydrogen gas...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Intro to Photosynthesis

For Students 9th - 10th
Discussion of the conversion of light energy to chemical energy through the life-sustaining process of photosynthesis. Explores the reactions of photosynthesis, where they take place, and their ecological importance.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Fa Qs About Nuclear Power

For Students 9th - 10th
Nuclear physicist, Dr. Charles Till, answers questions about nuclear power in this interview from the FRONTLINE Web site.
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Center of Science and Industry

Cosi Columbus: Sidewalk Chalk

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Make your own sidewalk chalk, and learn about chemical reactions. During the procedure, feel the heat as energy is released in an exothermic reaction.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Svante Arrhenius

For Students 9th - 10th
Svante Arrhenius was born in Vik, Sweden, and became the first native of that country to win the Nobel Prize. The award for chemistry was bestowed to him in honor of his theory of electrolytic dissociation. Arrhenius also developed the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: S'mores Limiting & Excess Reactants

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will use manipulatives that represent the ingredients for S'mores (graham crackers, marshmallows, chocolate bar) to determine the limiting and excess reactants (reagents) for making S'mores. The students will extend this to...
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Endothermic vs. Exothermic Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the differences between endothermic and exothermic reactions and the role thermodynamic potentials play in them. Examples from nature are also provided.
eBook
Estrella Mountain Community College

Online Biology Book: Chemistry I: Atoms and Molecules

For Students 9th - 10th
In this online biology textbook, learn about atoms and molecules as they relate to life. Find out about topics such as electrons and energy, chemical bonding, and chemical reactions.
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Making and Breaking Bonds

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at the processes of association and dissociation in chemical bonding. Observe simulations that show the influence of temperature on making and breaking of bonds, how diatomic molecules form, and what determines the speed of...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Cellular Respiration Reactions

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of cellular respiration and its overall chemical equation. The energy changes that occur during cellular respiration, including in photosynthesis.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Enthalpy of an Ion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity you will: Explore exothemic and endothermic reactions. Create a classroom calorimeter to measure energy of a reaction.
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Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: General Chemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a general chemistry course taught at the University of California, Berkeley. The course teaches periodic table, chemical bonds, molecular shape, phase changes, chemical reactions, stoichiometry,...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Chemistry: Electrochemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module students learn more about oxidation-reductions and how to balance these reactions and perform stoichiometric calculations on these specific reactions. Students also explore electrolysis, galvanic cells, reduction...
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: An Overview of the Difference Between Nadh and Nadph

For Students 9th - 10th
NADH and NADPH are enzymes involved in cellular processes. Explains how NADH participates in catabolic reactions where energy is released and NADPH is involved in anabolic reactions where energy is consumed. Their functions and chemical...
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The Franklin Institute

The Franklin Institute Online: Balloon Blow Up

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this simple experiment from the Franklin Institute, students observe the conversion of stored energy into work.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Catalyst: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will describe that a catalyst is something which can speed up a reaction by lowering activation energy. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Catalyst."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Catalyst: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will describe that a catalyst is something which can speed up a reaction by lowering activation energy. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Catalyst."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Catalyst: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will describe that a catalyst is something which can speed up a reaction by lowering activation energy. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Catalyst."
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Producers

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Energy is the ability to do work. In organisms, this can be physical work, like walking or jumping, or it can be the work used to carry out the chemical processes in...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix Series: Enthalpy

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Move the chemical reaction along, and observe the overall change in enthalpy for each reaction in the simulation. After the activity, answer one challenge question to check for understanding.