In this ceramic terms crossword puzzle instructional activity, students use the 20 art clues to fill in the appropriate words pertaining to ceramic studies in order to solve the word puzzle.

Second graders review the weather through a role-playing game.

Students determine how forensics analyze handwriting samples. In this physical science activity, students research how handwriting analyses help solve their assigned cases. They prepare a skit and present it in class.

A section from a textbook about enthalpies of formation. Includes practice exercises, a table of enthalpy values, and examples.

This site provides information on Chemical Energy. It includes concepts of chemical thermodynamics, including a lengthy section about the standard enthalpy of formation.

This article is provided for by the Florida State Univeristy. It contains class notes and discussion of enthalpy of formation.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will use Hess's law of heat summation to add chemical reactions together to produce a desired final equation, and then calculate the enthalpy change for...

Do you need to know a specific value of a specific quantity for any given substance? If so, this is the place. Find the heat capacity, heats of vaporization and fusion, and much more from this page.

This page is a lab that will teach you about heating and cooling curves.

This site explores the importance of clouds and how clouds are formed. Content details common atmospheric cooling mechanisms and atmospheric stability.

Our home, Earth, is a living planet. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are proof that the geological forces that shaped our planet and created the land masses are ongoing. An amazing example of geologic activity that is less damaging is...

An indexing page which includes links to a wealth of pages detailing the conceptual meaning of temperature. A hypertext format allows the visitor to quickly gain access the desired information.

A useful chart that explains the processes involved in transforming parent rocks into metamorphic rocks. Shows the two categories of metamorphic rocks produced, one by regional metamorphism and the other by contact metamorphism; their...

Wind is air in motion. It is produced by the uneven heating of the earth's surface by the sun. Since the earth's surface is made of various land and water formations, it absorbs the sun's radiation unevenly. Two factors are necessary to...

A learning unit with instructions on how to build a cardboard model house, and explore the effectiveness of a furnace vs. solar heating. The unit is in PDF format.

Web site that contains detailed statistics involving natural disasters by year and type of disaster. Statistics are available in .pdf format.

This Nobel website on the life and scientific work of Robert A. Millikan includes a biography, images, and internet resources for further reading and research. Also included are the 1923 "Presentation Speech" which praised Millikan's...

From the Mad Scientist Network. Using a question and answer format, this page explains the answer to the question "How does An air conditioner or refrigerator work?" The scientific principles which underly their operation and the process...

An easy to do activity if you have a Bunsen burner. The activity investigates combustion and heat conductivity. The activity is in lesson plan format that meets NSES standards.

A map from 1901 of the Heat Belts in South America showing the Heat Equator in July, regions where it is always hot, regions of temperate winters and hot summers, and regions where it is always temperate. "There is comparatively little...

A map from 1898 of the Heat Belts in South America showing the Heat Equator in July, regions where it is always hot, regions of temperate winters and hot summers, and regions where it is always temperate. "There is comparatively little...

In this lesson, students conduct heat transfer experiments to investigate why the Earth is still hot at its core, even after billions of years since its formation. They will learn that the rate of heat transfer is dependent on an...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers metamorphic rocks, which form from previous rocks exposed to heat and/or pressure.

In this activity, students will observe and understand the basic kinematics of plate movement, how oceans are formed during continental rifting, and the relationship between plate geometry and tectonic data such as earthquakes, heat...