Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Organic or Inorganic?
Take a look around your world as you discover what items are made up of organic and inorganic materials. Take this tutorial and quiz to see how much you know.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Inorganic Compounds
Learn here about inorganic compounds, substances that do not contain both carbon and hydrogen, and how they are essential to human functioning.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Organic Compounds Essential to Human Functioning
Learn here about organic compounds, groups of carbon atoms covalently bonded to hydrogen, usually oxygen, and often other elements as well, and how they are essential to human functioning.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What Will Biodegrade?
Students investigate what types of materials biodegrade in the soil, and learn what happens to their trash after they throw it away. The concepts of landfills and compost piles will be explained, and the students will have an opportunity...
Science Struck
Science Struck: Organic Compounds Examples
Discusses the confusion around what is meant by organic chemistry and provides a list of organic compounds organized into categories and types.
Florida State University
Florida State University: Magnet Lab: Organic Superconductors
Organic superconductors, though still new to science, are lighter and more potentially versatile than inorganic superconductors and may have important applications in the future.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Intro to Human Biology
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students will learn the basics about metabolism and organic & inorganic compounds in the human body.
Other
World of Molecules: 3 D Structure Files
Investigate the three-dimensional structure of various molecules- both organic and inorganic.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Chemical Change Examples That We See Around Us
Explains what a chemical change is and how to identify one. Provides examples of chemical changes that are often seen in organic and inorganic compounds.
Science Struck
Science Struck: The Various Types of Chemical Reactions
A detailed description of the different types of chemical reactions in organic and inorganic chemistry.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: What Is Chemistry?
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial students will define chemistry and differentiate between the macroscopic and the microscopic as it relates to chemistry. They will begin to...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Carbon
This article from Wikipedia contains great information on the element carbon. Links are provided throughout the article to provided additional information. The topics include: Notable Characteristics, Applications, History, Allotropes,...
Bio Topics
Bio Topics: Photosynthesis
This site details the process of photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is the process of the production of oxygen by plants and carbon dioxide by animals, both of which are needed for respiration purposes.
Other
Cambridge University: Chemistry Journals
This site is an index to over 2000 scientific journals in chemistry. Some journals require purchase, but many offer free articles or samples.
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: Linus Pauling (1901 1994)
This Access Excellence site provides a general biography of Linus Pauling, the two-time Nobel laureate who the elucidated chemical bonding, amino acid and protein structures, and the molecular basis of sickle-cell anemia.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemistry: Areas of Chemistry
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduces the major areas and disciplines of chemistry.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: What Makes Soil? Learning About Our Local Soils
Soil samples are collected from students' homes. They examine these at school, sort the soil's components, and record their findings in their science journals.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Every American Recycling Together Helps
Lesson where young scholars learn about recycling by collecting trash from the schoolyard and watching a podcast about recycling. Additional activities are provided corresponding to different subject areas, such as reading, math, social...
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Ecotoxicology: Herbicide
Definition of herbicides, how they are used, their damage to the environment and to ecology, consequences to human health, use around the world, and the three classes of herbicides.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Mercury
Information about the element, Mercury, atomic number 80. Covers physical and atomic properties, where it is found, and health-related regulations. Also discusses its three main forms, uses for mercury, ways it spreads throughout the...
Texas A&M University
Texas A&m University: Mulches for Water Conservation
The quality of the food we eat and the water we drink depends upon the quality of our topsoil. By putting a mulch cover on our topsoil, we help to protect this quality. Find out exactly what mulch is, what it can do, and how to properly...
Other
Golden Artist Colors: Color Mixing Guide
Golden Artist Colors presents a guide to mixing acrylic paint. An explanation of color theory and mixing color with paint is included on this site. There are also color charts and exercises that can be done with paint that explore how...
Other
Eco Usa: Mercury
A thorough summary of the sources of mercury exposure, the fate of mercury in the body and its metabolism, and the consequences of mercury toxicity, as well as the treatment.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Earth Materials: Collecting and Classifying
Activity investigates what Earth materials are made of. Students will go out and collect non-living earth materials that will fit in a small plastic bag then sort the material to discover ways of classifying what they have gathered....
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