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Condense, Combine, or Categorize New Information - Your Brain and Moral Decision-Making

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students condense information and create a summary paragraph on a video segment. In this brain activity activity, students watch a video that chronicles an experiment in how the brain responds when making moral decisions. Students use a...
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Mr. E. Science

Changes in Matter

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Do solids, liquids, and gases even matter? The presentation focuses on changes in matter, including phases, Boyle's Law, Charles' Law, and physical changes. 
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Condensation Polymerization

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
This organic chemistry lab activity is appropriate for teaching polymerization, percent yield, melting point, or the types and uses of polymer materials. Chemistry pupils imagine that they are working for a company to develop a special...
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Condensation Polymerization: Preparation of Nylon 6/6

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students participate in a lab activity in which they synthesize nylon 6/6, calculate the percent yield by mass, identify the polymer as thermoplastic or thermoset, and determine the melting point, density and end-product use of the polymer.
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How Do You Dew?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students examine how the processes of condensation and evaporation occur. They describe the relationship between heat energy, evaporation and condensation of water on Earth. They give examples of the processes of evaporation and...
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Magic Moisture

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Pupils discover the process of condensation.  For this experimental lesson, students hypothesize and conduct an experiment to determine where the water comes from during condensation.
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Rain Machine (Solar Still)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students experiment with a solar still. In this distillation lesson, students find a simple way to use evaporation to make salty water drinkable.
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Rain, Rain, Go Away

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students conduct a number of experiments involving evaporation and condensation. They view and discuss a video about the water cycle and then design posters about the rain based on the book "Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs".
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Water Cycle

For Teachers K - 5th
Students perform experiments with water to observe the principles of evaporation and condensation. They make models of the water cycle and discuss the processes that occurred in their experiments with their jars of water.
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The Atmosphere and Flight

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners investigate evaporation and condensation, and apply the concepts to understanding cloud formation.
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The Water Cycle

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners conduct experiments involving different parts of the water cycle. In this water cycle lesson, students conduct five simple experiments to demonstrate how the water cycle works. The results of each experiment is discussed as a...
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A Chemical Curiosity

For Students 5th - 7th
In this chemical change instructional activity, students review physical changes such as evaporation and condensation before working with chemical change. They conduct an experiment with vinegar and baking soda before recording the...
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The Water Cycle

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils explore the water cycle.  In this water cycle activity, students experiment with a variety of activities to discover what happens during the water cycle.  Pupils create their own animated versions of the water cycle using...
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Unit Plan
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Earth: The Water Planet

For Teachers 6th
Students elicit data on the water cycle, ocean topography, and island formation in this six lesson unit. The ocean floor and the properties of water are examined through a variety of discussions and hands-on experiments.
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Miller-Urey Experiment Amino Acids & The Origins of Life on Earth

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students study the Miller-Urey Experiment including its history and criticism.  In this origins of life lesson students repeat this experiment to see how it works.
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Making Summer School Less of a Drag

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Teaching summer school is the perfect opportunity for experimenting and expanding your classroom repertoire.
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Seashore Explorers

For Teachers 1st - 5th
There are three separate lessons within this resource that can be used together, or that can each stand alone. In the first, five simple activities allow junior scientists to examine the amazing properties of water. In the second, they...
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Water Cycle Activities

For Teachers 4th Standards
Explore the water cycle in all aspects with a resource packed full of activities and lessons. The 37-page packet comes with vocabulary, a game, writing prompts, printables, and opportunities to journey through the stages in the water...
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Water—Changing States (Part 1)

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Here is part one of a two-part lesson in which scholars investigate the changing states of water—liquid, solid, and gas. With grand conversation and up to three demonstrations, learners make predictions about what they think will happen...
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Weather Wiz Kids

Cloud in a Bottle

For Students 4th
This resource provides a short experiment for students to explore how clouds are formed.
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Cloud In a Bottle

For Students 6th - 8th
In this cloud instructional activity, students use a clear plastic bottle to simulate the process of cloud formation. They drop a lit match into the bottle that contains water and shake it to form condensed water or clouds. They answer...
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Rain and Rainbows

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore the weather system by analyzing water properties. In this precipitation lesson, students review weather related vocabulary terms and discuss how rainbows are created by light hitting droplets at the right time. Students...
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Create Your Own Fog

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students conduct an experiment. In this science lesson, students create their own fog. Students observe the results.
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How Are Clouds and Fog Formed?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate how clouds and fog are made of tiny droplets of water. They discuss how clouds and fog are formed, then conduct an experiment in which they observe what happens when an ice cube is placed on top of a bottle...