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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Science Tutorial: Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing matter straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own learning experiences as you take part in this interactive tutorial. [1:02]
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Other

Science at Home: The World of Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
Science at Home offers this site full of simple experiments that can be conducted at home. Don't miss the other sections, "forces and energy" and "electrons in action".
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BBC

Bbc News: 'Big Bang' Experiment Starts Well

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch a narrated animation on the Large Hadron Collider, its experiments, structure, and computer system. Then, browse this site's sections to explore facts about and functions of CMS, ATLAS, ALICE, LHCb, the LHC Computing Grid, and the...
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Other

University of Liverpool: Matter Initiative for Schools a Level Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features numerous interactive resources (such as simulations, interactive exercises, experiments, etc.) designed for teachers and students of the physical sciences. Some of the resources are available only on CD-ROM, but most...
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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.
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National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: Astronomy and Space: Research Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore some of our most fundamental questions about space exploration with this research overview collected by scientists at the National Science Foundation. Additionally, experience deep space first-hand with telescope interactives.
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abcteach

Abcteach: Experiments

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Elementary students learning to do experiments will be able to use these ready-made worksheets for gathering data on evaporation, melting ice and others.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: States of Matter: Which Will Propel the Balloon?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this activity, young scholars take part in a simulation of the three states of matter where they role play being molecules. They then create simple balloon rockets and must explain why a gas is the only state of matter that can cause...
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Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: La Materia

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this site you can learn and experiment with matter properties and change in behavior. Every theoretical explanation is accompanied by an animation. You will be able to aply the theory to real experiments.
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Success Link

Success Link: Dry Ice Lab/demonstration How Cool It Is!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan using dry ice to show the four states of matter. Included are inquiry-based questions to use as part of the demonstration.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Lab 2: Drawing Local Connections

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that explores Earth Science Systems. In this lab, students study the four components of the Earth system by diagraming the flow of energy and matter through it.
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Other

Particle Physics at Discovery's Horizon

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and how the U.S. Department of Energy and National Science Foundation have collaborated with this huge project and related experiments. You can find facts about the LHC, browse a bank of high...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating the Effects of Density and Volume of a Cartesian Diver

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students will investigate why the Cartesian diver dives and rises in a 2 liter bottle. They will also, through their own discovery, come up with a question and then change one variable and record their results. Students...
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Other

Colts Neck Township Schools: Hands on Technology: Solids, Liquids, and Gases

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Printable classroom-ready worksheets for a series of simple-to-implement experiments about the states of matter.
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Museum of Science

The Atoms Family

For Students 3rd - 8th
Let this classic family of monsters guide you as you learn about energy. Interactive exercises, experiments, and demonstrations help to build knowledge and raise questions.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Photo Stuff With Ruff

For Students K - 1st
Discover what the "stuff" in your world is made of in this camera-based app experience from The Ruff Ruffman Show.
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Fundación Cientec

Cientec: Quimica

For Students 3rd - 5th
Simple step by step experiments that will allow students to venture in the world of Chemistry. Students can explore transformations of matter and interactions among its components, such as oxidation, surface tension, solutions and more.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Chemical Reactions: Investigating Exothermic and Endothermic Reactions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this 9th grade physical science guided inquiry, students will work in pairs to discover the indicators of chemical reactions. Each pair of students is assigned either an exothermic or endothermic reaction. Based on their observations,...
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Other

Kiddy House: All About Chickens for Kids and Teachers

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This comprehensive resource features everything you want to know about chickens. Students and teachers will "cluck" when they explore this site.