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The Lorax
Students read The Lorax and discuss how human actions can affect the environment. They conduct a simple experiment to see how much air pollution is in the air that they breathe.
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Describing Chemical Reactions
In this chemical reactions instructional activity, students fill in 12 blanks with the appropriate terms related to chemical reactions. They also indicate if 4 statements are true or false and match 7 words with their descriptions....
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Planets
For this online interactive planets worksheet, learners respond to 9 multiple choice and fill in the blank questions regarding the information included in the provided paragraphs.
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Wet Dry Ice Lab
In this wet dry ice instructional activity, students read the information about dry ice and phase change. Students perform an experiment in which they observe phase changes of ice. Students answer analysis questions as it relates to the...
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Where My Peeps At?
Students conduct a series of activity that demonstrates Charles' and Boyle's Law. In this chemistry instructional activity, students determine the relationship among pressure, volume and temperature. They solve problems using...
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PLANTS LOVE AIR
Students identify that plants cannot develop adequately without air and predict what happens to the leaf of a geranium brought to class. They draw a picture of what they think the leaf will look like after a week of being covered....
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Particulate Matter: The Lorax
Students collect air samples to test it for air pollution. They are read the story The Lorax and discuss the effects of air pollution. They share their observations with the class.
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Understanding Filtration
Students discuss the work "Filter." They list types of filters they know about and look at both clean and used filters. Students speculate on how a filter might be important to a fish. They listen to the instructor tell them about...
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Particulate Matter: The Lorax
Students investigate how dirty air is outside. They read and discuss the book, The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss. They investigate using jars and lids to compare the dirt left each day as they remove the lids. They observe the lids and discuss if...
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Cwec: Solid, Liquid, Gas! (Mini Unit) [Pdf]
The water cycle is investigated in this mini-unit, and water in its three states.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Just a Phase: Water as a Solid, Liquid, and Gas
This site helps students construct a model of the arrangement of water molecules when present as solid, liquid or gas. Includes background information, lesson plans, links to standards and assessment ideas.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Water Phases
Water can exist in three different phases. This still collage produced for Teachers' Domain features examples of water in liquid, solid, and gas states.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Water Magicians
First graders observe water changing states from a solid to a liquid to a gas.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Solid, Liquid and Gas
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this interactive you will move the red dot below each flask to observe how particles move in each different phase of water. You will need a sign-in to access this media, but it will be well worth...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Biology: Specific Heat, Heat of Vaporization, and Density of Water
Why does ice float? In this article answer that question by learning about the topics of Specific heat capacity, evaporative cooling, and heat of vaporization of water.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Making a Water Cycle
In this instructional activity students are required to observe a simple model of the water cycle constructed of sand and ice in a plastic shoe box.
New York University
Nyu: Welcome to Water
Educational resource invites users to understand the properties of water by first examining what water is and how we use it and then leads users to further information on the three states that water can exist.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Water, Water Everywhere
Discussion of the various ways we rely on water.
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Science Lesson on Water
This activity will teach students about the three states of water found on our planet: solid, liquid gas. They will learn to distinguish the differences between these states and will be able to give examples of each.
BBC
Bb Ci Schools: Revisewise Science: Solids, Liquids, Gases
This site contains an interactive activity in which students can learn about the three states of matter. There is also a factsheet that lists numerous properties of liquids, solids, and gases. The factsheet also uses water as an example...
New York University
New York University: States of Water
Use this resource to learn about the three different phases of water; solid, liquid, and gas. What happens to water as it changes into a solid or gas? Includes short and easy to do activity.
American Chemical Society
Inquiry in Action: From Liquid to Gas to Solid
What causes frost to form on the outside of a cold container? In this activity, students will see that the liquid water can change state again and freeze to become ice.
Chem Tutor
Chem Tutor: Chemistry: States of Matter
This lesson focuses on the states of matter: solids, liquids, and gases. It also discusses the Kinetic Theory of Matter, Thermodynamics, Triple point, Phase Change Graphs and the Heating Curve of Water. It provideds adrawing of a heating...
Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tar Heel Reader: Forms of Water
Find out how water can exist in the three different pahses of matter.