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Bouncing Balls
Students create a polymer to demonstrate its properties and develop an awareness of the wide variety of uses for polymers.
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Meet Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov!
Young scholars listen to music and review instruments of the orchestra. They explore musical terms, solo, texture and theme of the music and discuss other features of the music. Students research and discuss the life of Mikhail...
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Science Puzzle
In this science worksheet, learners identify and locate vocabulary words related to various sciences. There are 20 words located in the word search.
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Bridge Cable Corrosion
Students investigate the corrosion of different materials in the lab. In this chemistry lesson, students construct a bridge considering different bridge designs. At the end of the lesson, they play the role of scientists and engineers...
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Strings and Springs
Ninth graders explore physics with springs and strings. In this force and motion lesson, 9th graders rotate through four stations exploring how various springs stretch and bounce, and how mass and length affect a pendulum's swing. They...
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An Introduction to Elementary Statistics
Students explain and appreciate the use of statistics in everyday life. They define basic terms used in statistics and compute simple measures of central tendency.
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Expensive Choices
Eighth graders work in pairs to discover how to prioritize expenses in a budget.
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Mini Research Report
Sixth graders select a topic to research. They gather information from at least 3 sources and take notes according to the categories chosen. Students write a rought draft using the notes. They edit, revise and publish the information....
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Research Project
Eighth graders research a project of their choice in relation to a career they may want. In this language arts lesson, 8th graders create a bibliography of references used both print and online sources. Students make an outline of their...
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Globe Raider: Part I
Learners research a Spanish speaking countries using the Internet and other appropriate resources. They work in groups to complete a computer based treasure hunt before completing a Globe Raiders worksheet. They use the research...
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Using Current Data for Graphing Skills
Students graph demographic information. In this graphing lesson, students choose what type of graph to create and what information to display. Links to examples of graphs and statistical data are provided. The graphs are created on the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Periodic Table Families
Given descriptions or specific element groups, students will use a Periodic Table to relate properties of chemical families to position on the table.
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Atomic Theory and Structure: The Periodic Table
A description of the arrangement of elements on The Periodic Table based on electron configuration.
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.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements
A fun way to learn about the periodic table! This interactive table allows students to investigate the basic information of an element as well as explore group and family characteristics.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Periodic Table Trends
Given descriptions, scenarios, or groups/series of elements, students will use the Periodic Table to relate the size of the atomic radii, electronegativity, and ionization energy of elements to their position on the chart. Students will...
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: The Periodic Table
Elements in the same group in the periodic table have similar chemical properties. This is because their atoms have the same number of electrons in the highest occupied energy level. Group 1 elements are reactive metals called the alkali...
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Periodic Table Groups Quiz
Take an interactive quiz over the groups on the periodic table of elements. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Mendeleev's Periodic Table
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Mendeleev's periodic table and the groups and periods.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Physical Science: The Periodic Table
This learning module allows students to use the organization of the periodic table to understand the element and their properties. By the end of the activity, students will be able to locate metals, nonmetals, and metalloids and the...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Electron Configuration and the Periodic Table
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students will explore how the form of the periodic table is related to electron configurations, which in turn influences chemical reactivity.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Electron Configuration and the Periodic Table
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students will sse the Periodic Table to identify and explain the properties of chemical families, including alkali metals, alkaline...
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Organization of the Periodic Table
Acting as a subtopic of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook's section on Atoms and the Periodic Table, this site focuses specifically on the Periodic Table of Elements with information on the table's organization methods along with...