Lesson Plan
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Lesson Plans: Why Does Water Dissolve Salt?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use their own model of a salt crystal and water molecule to show how water dissolves salt. Then, they relate their observations to the structure of salt, water, and alcohol on the molecular level.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Protein Folding

For Students 9th - 10th
Generate all polar, all nonpolar, or random proteins and observe how the protein folds in response to these molecular properties. Explore how the potential energy of the system changes over time to draw conclusions about how proteins...
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Oil and Water

For Students 9th - 10th
Mix polar and nonpolar molecules together and observe changes in potential energy.
Handout
Michael Blaber, PhD

Florida State University: Basic Concepts of Covalent Bonding: Covalent Bonding

For Students 9th - 10th
Good introduction and graphics make this a solid page for understanding the orbital role in bonding and molecular geometry. The author is a professor at Florida State University.
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Concord Consortium

The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Hypocycloid

For Students 9th - 10th
View a hypocycloid being created in this simulation.
Article
Other

Solubility of Things: Factors Affecting Solubility

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how temperature, polarity, pressure, molecular size, and stirring affects the speed of dissolving.
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Mixing Liquids

For Students 9th - 10th
Experiment with mixing liquids and observing the volume they take up.
Lesson Plan
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Lesson Plans: Temperature Changes in Dissolving

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Media-rich lesson in which learners discover that it takes energy to break bonds, and that energy is released when bonds are formed during the process of dissolving. They also determine whether dissolving is either exothermic or...
Website
University of Arizona

University of Arizona: Biochemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
Problem sets, tutorials, and activities related to biochemistry.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Micelles

For Students 9th - 10th
Select an oil or water environment for molecules and observe how they are affected by interactions with their environment and each other.
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Protein Folding Exploring

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover how peptides fold into stable conformations.