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Website
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The Alaska Climate Research Center

For Students 9th - 10th
See the current and past weather conditions of Alaska. Take a look at a webcam set up in Fairbanks, Alaska for current conditions.
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Handout
Other

Sierra College: Elementary Algebra Review Sheet and Common Formulas

For Students 9th - 10th
This review sheet includes important rules, properties, formulas, and equations needed to solve many Algebra problems.
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Handout
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

International System of Units: Si Base Units

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the definitive source for information on SI base units, derived units, squares, cubes, luminosity, field strength and flux density.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Kinetic Theory of Temperature

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online lesson students will be introduced to conditions required for an ideal gas. They will also learn about the similarities and differences between...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Liquids

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students will describe a liquid according to the kinetic-molecular theory. They will also learn how a liquid exhibits surface...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Ideal Gases and Gas Stoichiometry

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students will learn the Ideal Gas Law, and know which of the different values for the ideal gas constant to use in a given...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Heat

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Using the law of conservation of energy as a starting off point, students use the specific heat equation to perform calculations that relate mass, specific heat,...
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Activity
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Lab 4: Finding Coral's Ideal Environment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An investigation that is part of series of lab lessons where students study coral. In this particular experiment, students explore the optimal environmental conditions for coral to survive. Students will study temperature, water depth,...
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: General Science: Temperature

For Students 9th - 10th
Instructional module focusing on temperature. Discussion includes historical references to the different scales by which temperature is measured. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to the topic.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Weather and Climate

For Students 9th - 10th
In this amazingly comprehensive interactive tutorial you will learn how factors such as ocean currents, topography, and air currents affect weather patterns. You will also learn the similarities and differences between weather and climate.
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eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: College Physics: Heat

For Students 11th - 12th
In this section of the textbook, find information about how heat and work transfer energy. Also understand how a heat transfer is related to temperature and what mechanical equivalent of heat relates to work and heat transfer. Book can...
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Unit Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Requirements for Human Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Earth and its atmosphere have provided us with air to breathe, water to drink, and food to eat, but these are not the only requirements for survival. Although you may rarely think about it, you also cannot live outside of a certain range...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Make Your Own Temperature Scale

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about the difference between temperature and thermal energy. They build a thermometer using simple materials and develop their own scale for measuring temperature. They compare their thermometer to a commercial...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: All Fat Is Not Created Equally!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students learn that fats found in the foods we eat are not all the same; they discover that physical properties of materials are related to their chemical structures. Provided with several samples of commonly used fats with different...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Cold Can You Go?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore materials engineering by modifying the material properties of water. Specifically, they use salt to lower the freezing point of water and test it by making ice cream. Using either a simple thermometer or a mechatronic...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Insulation Materials Investigation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students test the insulation properties of different materials by timing how long it takes ice cubes to melt in the presence of various insulating materials. Students learn about the role that thermal insulation materials can play in...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Works Best in a Radiator?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn the importance of heat transfer and heat conductance. Using hot plates, student groups measure the temperature change of a liquid over a set time period and use the gathered data to calculate the heat transfer that occurs....
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Chemical Reactions and Stoichiometry

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, students explore reactions in which chemical bonds are formed and broken. Students experiment with changing the temperature and the concentration of the atoms in order to see how these affect reaction rates. They also...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Heat to Go

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore heat and temperature with a 5E model lesson.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Specifically Speaking About Heat Capacity

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides alternative or additional tier-one learning options to help students understand the concept of specific heat capacity.
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: British and Metric Conversions Interactives

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
The resource assesses students on British and metric conversions. There are tutorials on metric units, length, mass, volume, English units, symbols, and temperature. There is also an introduction and an interactive activity to test the...
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Graphic
Other

Weather Underground: The Authority in Expert Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
Weather maps, forecasts, radar, NEXRAD, satellite images, and lifestyle weather reports for the United States and world. Includes Dr. Dewpoint and Weather 101 sections for educational use.
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Handout
Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Reaction Rates

For Students 3rd - 8th
This Chem4Kids.com site explores the rate of reactions. Content focuses on forces that change the speed of reactions, and measuring rates.
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Activity
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Coffee Problem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use knowledge of specific heat capacity to mix together hot coffee and cold milk to create a solution of coffee at a desired temperature. In this randomized problem, each student is given a different final...