Students elicit data on the water cycle, ocean topography, and island formation in this six lesson unit. The ocean floor and the properties of water are examined through a variety of discussions and hands-on experiments.

From molecules to nanotubes, an engaging unit explores the world of tiny science. Fifteen hands-on experiments and lessons engage young scientists as they learn chemistry. Discussions, worksheets, and data analysis reinforce the concepts...

Legal and illegal. Use and misuse. Risks and consequences. Myths and facts. Class members investigate the effects on the body of various drugs, including cannabis, nicotine, and alcohol.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of solute and solvent and examples. Water as a solvent and how ionic and covalent solutes dissolve in water.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers solutes and solvents.

This video lesson explains how water is the universal solvent. [1:10]

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students will list examples of solutions made from different solute-solvent combinations and explain three factors that affect the...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students will study water's ability to act as a solvent.

Learn the definitions of a solution, solute, and solvent. Understand how molarity is used to quantify the concentration of solute, and comcalculations related to molarity.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How solutes affect solvents, the freezing point depression and boiling point elevation.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson, students expand their study of mixtures to show that solids and gases can also act as solvents. Additionally, they take a look at situations in which...

Through interactive puzzles, informational text and video clips, students will investigate the properties of solutions.

Information relating to the properties of water and its behavior.

A detailed review of water and its structure. Included are diagrams, animated graphics, and review quizzes. For the advanced high school student.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students will define a solution and describe the parts of a solution. They will describe how an aqueous solution is formed from both...

This comprehensive interactive tutorial continues to explore the forensic science field. Learn how organic materials of evidence are analyzed and what the various types of chromatography are, especially why they are so important to this...

Explore what happens when one substance dissolves into another. Run the simulations and see if you can predict the results.

Learn what affect changing temperature has in regards to chemical reactions.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes solution formation and interaction of solute with water.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What a solution is and its different parts, definition of soluble and insoluble. Solutions in different states of matter.

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."

An in-depth look at solutions and their properties. Includes practice problems for calculating solution concentration.

This lesson will introduce the concept of solubility.

This lesson will explain what a solution is and provide the general properties of solutions. It is 4 of 8 in the series titled "Solutions."