Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Tempting Temperatures
In this lesson plan students learn how to use a thermometer and compare changes in temperature using water in the fridge and water in the freezer. Helps students create charts to analyze data.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Volume and Mass
This lesson will describe the concepts of volume and mass and show how to calculate volume and mass.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Flocculants: The First Step to Cleaner Water!
Learners experience firsthand one of the most common water treatment types in the industry today, flocculants. They learn how the amount of suspended solids in water is measured using the basic properties of matter and light. In...
British Library
British Library: The Leonardo Notebook
Page through one of Leonardo's notebooks, in which he works out his observations about weights, measures, reflections, and similar material matters. Interesting examples of the master's characteristic "mirror writing" and of his...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: The Mole Concept
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students will identify three methods for measuring the amount of matter in a sample. They will define the mole and its relationship...
Cuemath
Cuemath: Mass
A comprehensive guide for learning all about mass with definitions, how to calculate mass, the difference between mass and weight, solved examples, and practice questions.
Other
Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Essentials of Weather
A suite of lessons focusing on the basic elements of climate and weather. Inquiry-based exploration of extreme weather events and the factors of weather including clouds, wind, air pressure, temperature, and the water cycle.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Swing Your Can
Sinusoidal data already obtained by swinging a can over a meter stick and measuring time and displacement from its resting position using a CBR or CBL with a motion detector. Using the TI-Navigator, you can monitor their "real time"...
Other
Quantum Mysteries: Deepening Quantum Mysteries
Although it is arguably the most successful theory in physics, quantum physics has often baffled and confounded both its practitioners and the general public. This informative website discusses the types of mysteries, which still plague...
Other
Virtual Chembook: Density Applications With Gases
DENSITY is a physical property of matter, as each element and compound has a unique density associated with it. Density defined in a qualitative manner as the measure of the relative "heaviness" of objects with a constant volume. For...
Pennsylvania State University
Penn State University: Embryology in the Classroom
Come and learn more about how to incorporate embryology into your classroom. This site features tons of information about the embryology of chickens.
Other
Kiddy House: All About Chickens for Kids and Teachers
This comprehensive resource features everything you want to know about chickens. Students and teachers will "cluck" when they explore this site.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Water Density
Demonstrate the effect that dissolving different amounts of salt in water has on the density of the liquid.