Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Who Says a Watched Pot Never Boils?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students' will investigate what causes phase changes in matter.They use a temperature sensor to measure the temperature of a substance and identify visual clues to the phase changes.
Handout
Florida State University

Florida State University: Intermolecular Forces: Changes of State

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the changes of state that can occur for the three different types of matter (solids, liquids, and gases) and different types of heat energy that have been defined by scientists.
Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Melting Point

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers a brief description of the term, "Melting point," including hyperlinked terms.
Interactive
Other

Science Alive: Melting Point Simulation

For Students 9th - 10th
Percy Julian and Josef Pikl used the fact that melting point-the temperature at which a substance changes from a solid to a liquid-is a characteristic property of a substance to prove that the British chemist Robert Robinson could not...
Graphic
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Changing State Freezing

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover how freezing works, when the change of state moves from liquid to solid.
Graphic
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Moving Molecules in a Solid

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the movement of the molecules in a solid.
Unit Plan
Other

Kinetic Molecular Theory [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
This PDF is fill in the blank notes, activities and graphic organizers on kinetic molecular theory.
Activity
NC State University

The Science House: Chromatography of Foods [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will practice the technique of chromatography by separating a mixture of FD&C dyes. Questions related to the experiment along with the answers are available for use by the teacher.
Handout
Purdue University

Purdue Univ: Gases, Liquids, and Solids

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a brief description of the differences in particles in a gas, liquid, and solid. Animated microscopic pictures demonstrate the molecular movement in each state. Information is then summarized in an easy-to-read chart.
eBook
Upper Canada District School Board

Tom Stretton's Advanced Placement Chemistry: Liquids and Solids

For Students 9th - 10th
Take on this self-guided advanced level e-text, and learn about the chemical and physical structure of liquids and solids.
Graphic
Curated OER

Unesco: Spain: Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula

For Students 9th - 10th
The late prehistoric rock-art sites of the Mediterranean seaboard of the Iberian peninsula form an exceptionally large group. Here the way of life during a critical phase of human development is vividly and graphically depicted in...