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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Organic or Inorganic?

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Inorganic Compounds

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn here about inorganic compounds, substances that do not contain both carbon and hydrogen, and how they are essential to human functioning.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Organic Compounds Essential to Human Functioning

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Will Biodegrade?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Organic Compounds Examples

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the confusion around what is meant by organic chemistry and provides a list of organic compounds organized into categories and types.
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Florida State University

Florida State University: Magnet Lab: Organic Superconductors

For Students 9th - 10th
Organic superconductors, though still new to science, are lighter and more potentially versatile than inorganic superconductors and may have important applications in the future.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Intro to Human Biology

For Teachers 5th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students will learn the basics about metabolism and organic & inorganic compounds in the human body.
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Other

World of Molecules: 3 D Structure Files

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate the three-dimensional structure of various molecules- both organic and inorganic.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Chemical Change Examples That We See Around Us

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: The Various Types of Chemical Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed description of the different types of chemical reactions in organic and inorganic chemistry.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: What Is Chemistry?

For Students 9th - 10th
[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...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Carbon

For Students 9th - 10th
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,...
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Bio Topics

Bio Topics: Photosynthesis

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Other

Cambridge University: Chemistry Journals

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is an index to over 2000 scientific journals in chemistry. Some journals require purchase, but many offer free articles or samples.
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National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Linus Pauling (1901 1994)

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Chemistry: Areas of Chemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduces the major areas and disciplines of chemistry.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: What Makes Soil? Learning About Our Local Soils

For Teachers 4th - 6th
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.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Every American Recycling Together Helps

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
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Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Ecotoxicology: Herbicide

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Mercury

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Texas A&M University

Texas A&m University: Mulches for Water Conservation

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Other

Golden Artist Colors: Color Mixing Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Other

Eco Usa: Mercury

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Earth Materials: Collecting and Classifying

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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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