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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: States of Matter Fitness Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students use their science knowledge and apply it using physical activity! Learning about the stages of matter, solid, liquid and gas, students perform an exercise for each as the teacher calls out an object such as soup...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Matter, Solid or Liquid: Barthlomew and the Oobleck

For Teachers K - 1st
Background information: This activity is an extension of the children's exposure to states of matter in the Scott Foresman science series for Grade 2. This lesson has a Literacy component. Using the book by Dr. Seuss, "Bartholomew and...
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Kodak Lesson Plans: Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Kodak site is overflowing with science lesson plans submitted by teachers from every grade. Each activity involves using photography to enrich the subject matter.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: States of Matter [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students will move and generate choreography to understand different states of matter.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Antimatter Matters

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Antimatter, the charge reversed equivalent of matter, has captured the imaginations of science fiction fans for years as a perfectly efficient form of energy. While normal matter consists of atoms with negatively charged electrons...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Wearable Science

For Teachers K - 1st
Learn about wearable science and material properties alongside Ruff Ruffman.
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Rooted and Growing: Kindergarten Science Unit: Objects and Materials [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A collection of science lessons where young scholars explore the characteristics of different materials and everyday objects and create their own objects and art. They study the properties of the materials that make them strong,...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: The Three States of Matter

For Teachers K - 1st
For this Physical Science exploration activity, students explore the meaning of the words solid, liquid, and gas. Student groups complete a chart with examples of each type of matter and its properties and then record their observations...
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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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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Teacher's Guide: Kitchen Chemistry

For Teachers K - 1st
Learn about kitchen chemistry alongside Ruff Ruffman. Learners can use the videos, games, and activities from The Ruff Ruffman Show to discover how by investigating solids and liquids and exploring heating and cooling, science can help...
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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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Howto smile.org: From Gas to Liquid to Solid

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Allow your students to explore states of matter as they learn what causes frost to form on the outside of a cold container. Students will observe how liquid water can change to ice or water vapor in this lab. Lesson includes background...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Monopoly Matters

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will apply learning opportunities from playing the board game Monopoly to personal financial planning. This lesson includes financial planning components.
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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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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Density in Solutions: How Can You Make an Egg Float?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this activity, students will learn about density by determining how to make an egg float in water. By the end of the lesson plan, students will understand that density and weight are different and that density matters in floatation....
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: How Sweet It Is

For Teachers 9th - 10th
As part of the study of Matter, the young scholars will determine the density of standard percent sugar solutions through hands on experimentation. In laboratory groups, students will graph a standardized curve of the experimental data....
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Projectiles

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Lesson plan in which students will observe demonstrations and interact with various objects dealing with projectile motion. Subject matter for intermediate or middle school.
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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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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Solids and Liquids Stations

For Teachers K - 1st
A description of a instructional activity where students navigate through twelve stations on solids and liquids and record their observations in a booklet. The station topics are listed, but the recording booklet materials were purchased...
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Tempting Temperatures

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan students learn how to use a thermometer and compare changes in temperature using water in the fridge and water in the freezer. Helps students create charts to analyze data.
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Michigan Reach Out

Guess What! A Lesson About Atoms

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A lesson plan outlining a very simple way to introduce students to how the structure of the atom was determined. Uses a mystery box with surprise items inside.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Plastic Polymers: Building a Model

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will use their prior knowledge about changes of matter including physical and chemical changes from the Houghton Mifflin science curriculum. Students will create a hypothesis to test the physical properties of materials such as...
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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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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Path to Positive

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Using the story Less than Zero by Stuart Murphy, middle schoolers relate money matters to positive and negative numbers as a real-life correlation. Incorporated into this lesson, students play the path to positive game where they are...

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