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Curated OER

Determination of Phosphates

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars engage in a laboratory instructional activity in order to increase understanding of the impact of phosphates at the chemical and ecological levels. The lab exercise is completed with the goal of getting them to predict the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Consequences of Extinction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners participate in a class discussion on site of an older style bridge to help connect the significance of each organism in an ecosystem by using an analogy of bolts slowly being removed from a working bridge.
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Curated OER

Making a Food Web and Learning About Ecosystems

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine the difference between a food web and food chain. They also examine the importance of the sun in a food web and food chain. Students understand what happens when you remove parts of the chain.
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Curated OER

Magnetic Attraction

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create a hypothesis on what objects will attract to magnets. In this magnets lesson plan, 2nd graders use a computer program to create a hypothesis as to what will attract or unattract magnets. For an extension, they test...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Blood, I Presume?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners explain the value of blood in trials.  In this DNA instructional activity students work together to collect and share information and ideas that they come up with after learning how to distinguish blood from other...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Acid and Bases - Alien II

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders determine which of two solutions is more acidic by adding each to a given base. Students have to apply this analysis process to a problem scenario involving an alien creature.
eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: College Physics: Phase Changes

For Students 11th - 12th
Learn about the phases of matter in this section of a college textbook. Section defines the phases of matter and discusses how to interpret a phase diagram. Also explored is partial pressures and Dalton's Law. Section also includes...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Changes of State

For Students 6th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of a change of state and the physical processes that cause it.
Unit Plan
Utah State Office of Education

Utah Science: Changing Matter

For Students 3rd - 8th
Matter changes both physically and chemically on a fairly regular basis. Through these activities students will challenge their understanding of the changes that may take place with different types of matter.
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Other

Science4 Us: Changes in Matter

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Through an instructional video, games, and activities, students explore three types of change matter makes: physical change, in which only the shape of the matter changes; physical phase change in which matter changes to a different form...
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Mystery Mud: Exploring Changes in States of Matter

For Students 3rd - 8th
Join a group of middle-school students on a visit to a laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where they experiment with "mystery mud" and learn about the relationships between magnetism, particle motion, and changes in...
Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
Step into Dirtmeister's Science Lab as he explores the challenge question: "How can you force a physical change in matter?" Learn about matter, make your predictions and then do the experiment.
Interactive
Utah Education Network

Uen: Changes in Matter What Kind of Change Is It?

For Students 9th - 10th
Can you distinguish physical changes from chemical changes? After reading a brief summary of both types of changes, you'll be presented with some examples and asked to identify them.
Website
Frostburg State University

General Chemistry Online: Ten Signs of Chemical Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource provides the ten signs that tell when a chemical change has occured. Each sign has a detailed explanation.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Properties of Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial, students will begin to understand a substance according to its physical properties. Learn to distinguish between extensive and intensive...
Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: What Is Matter

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about matter, its three states, changes of state, how matter behaves, and physical and chemical changes in matter.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Changes in Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students identify the chemical properties of a substance and describe chemical changes and differentiate them from physical changes....
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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Changing State: Melting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Discover the concept that energy transfer and molecular motion cause the change in state from a solid to a liquid. Also compare state changes of water to the state changes of other substances.
Website
Other

Classifying Matter and Changes in Matter

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn to identify changes in matter and explain what happens as matter changes. The lesson is supplemented with several experiments to reinforce key concepts.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Changes of State

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of a change of state and the physical processes that cause it.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Matter and Energy: Chemical Reactions

For Students 6th - 8th
Do you know the difference between a physical and a chemical change? This interactive tutorial will explore these concepts!
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Changes in Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will describe methods for separating mixtures, such as chromatography, distillation, fractional distillation, evaporation, and filtration. They will also...
Handout
Frostburg State University

General Chemistry Online: Physical and Chemical Changes

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource provides information about the difference between physical and chemical changes. Includes a definition and examples of each.
Lesson Plan
Utah STEM Foundation

Utah Stem Action Center: Changes in Matter

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The goal of this activity is to develop and use a model to describe that matter is made of particles on a scale that is too small to be seen. You will be making observations of changes supported by a particle model of matter.

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