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Garden With Insight: Vapor Pressure in the Garden

For Students 9th - 10th
Basic information about the role of vapor pressure in the garden. In addition, a free garden simulator can be downloaded in which various quantities can be measured.
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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon: Vapor Pressure Tank

For Students 9th - 10th
Basic design of a demonstration machine that will lower the vapor pressure and cause water to evaporate at room temperature.
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Chemical Reax/exothermic Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
A wonderfully complete primer on exothermic reactions in the context of chemical spills. Covers Reactions with Air or Water, Combustible Organics, Polymerization Reax, Decomposition, Corrosion, and much much more.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Floats Your Boat?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students use modeling clay, a material that is denser than water and thus ordinarily sinks in water, to discover the principle of buoyancy. They begin by designing and building boats out of clay that will float in water, and then refine...
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Frostburg State University

Frostburg State Chemistry Online: Pressure & Oxygen Solubility

For Students 9th - 10th
The effect of changing pressure on the solubility of oxygen in water. Explains how temperature and pressure affect dissolved oxygen levels. Includes example formulas.
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Microgravity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson middle schoolers will use water balloons to simulate the effects of gravity and microgravity on fluid distribution in the body.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Osmosis and Tonicity

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of osmosis and tonicity and looks at how osmosis works, as well as the role it plays in the water balance of cells. Describes hypertonic, isotonic, and hypotonic solutions and their effect on cells.
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Atmosphere and Oceans: Composition of Earth's Atmosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of the different parts of the atmosphere and how pressure and temperature changes at different altitudes.
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Fundamentals of Reverse Osmosis

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a basic definition of reverse osmosis, with a bit of a slant on why water pretreatment is important.
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City University of New York

The World of Cells: Osmosis

For Students 9th - 10th
This definition and explanation osmosis shows how water diffuses from regions where it is in high concentration to regions where it is in low concentration.
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City University of New York

Brooklyn College: Osmosis Interactive Activity

For Students 9th - 10th
Great activity with clear background information. Try out the lab using osmosis to calculate molecular weight.

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