Curated OER
Downhill Discoveries
Students are involved in hands-on activities to determine how course conditions affect bobsled, luge, and downhill ski races.
Curated OER
What's the Matter? (Experiments)
Students observe a scientific discrepant event, and are then challenged to create experiments to solve the dilemma.
Curated OER
Solar
Students study solar energy. For this renewable energy lesson students complete several lab activities using different controls and variables.
Curated OER
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Students create a design for a school garden. For this garden design lesson, students analyze what plants grow best in their school's climate and work in teams to design a garden. Students measure the existing space, determine the...
Curated OER
Echo Location
Students participate in a role-playing activity that demonstrates how whales use sound as an adaptation to their environment.
Curated OER
Drifting Continents, Dynamic Results
Pupils plot earthquake and volcano data using a Compass Rose Plotting. They explain the relationship between plate movement and connection. They draw conclusions that earthquakes and volcanoes occur in predictable locations.
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Frozen Film
Learners discover how light reflects off surfaces. In this hands-on demonstration, students examine how variations in color are produced by light interference.
Curated OER
Acid Rain
Students create acid rain using carbonic, nitrous, nitric, and sulfurous acids.
Curated OER
Hess's Law
For this reactions worksheet, students use Hess's Law to calculate the heat gained or lost by different reactions. Students determine if the reaction would occur spontaneously at a given temperature. This worksheet has 9 problems to solve.
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Enzymes
Tenth graders observe enzyme activity. They discuss the relationship between drug use and enzyme activity.
Curated OER
Combustion Reactions
Students write a balanced chemical reaction. They articulate how burning fossil fuels increase the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Students incorporate all the environmental risks involved as well.
Curated OER
Tree Identification
Students list four ways to identify trees. In this tree identification instructional activity, students use tree identification techniques such as leafs, bark, wood grain, soil type, and climate to create tables and graphs.
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Good Vibrations
Young scholars demonstrate sound waves and make changes in the waves
resulting in changes in pitch. Students associate changes in pitch in various "musical instruments"with size and shape and the sound waves they produce.
Curated OER
Chemistry: Balancing Chemical Equations
Eighth graders practice balancing chemical equations. In this chemistry lesson, 8th graders explain why it is necessary to balance equations. They complete practice worksheets individually.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemistry: Physical Properties of Water
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers physical properties of water, hydrogen bonding, surface tension, and vapor pressure.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: What Makes Water Special?
In this lesson students will explore and compare the physical properties of water and oil. Student sheets are provided in English and in Spanish.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Properties of Water
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students will investigate the chemical and physical properties of the unique and important substance, water.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Properties of Water
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students look at the chemical structure of water and learn how it determines water's properties.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Physical and Chemical Properties of Water
In this lesson students will understand the difference between chemical and physical properties by studying the properties of water. Students will also understand how to perform the different laboratory techniques that go along with the...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Water and Life
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The chemical and physical properties of water are examined in this lesson, including the role of hydrogen bonds in determining water's properties. The importance of...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Properties of Water: Lesson 3
This lesson will provide an understanding of the chemical and physical nature of water. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "The Properties of Water."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Properties of Water: Lesson 4
This lesson will provide an understanding of the chemical and physical nature of water. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "The Properties of Water."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Properties of Water: Lesson 1
This lesson will provide an understanding of the chemical and physical nature of water. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "The Properties of Water."