Teach Engineering
May the Force Be with You: Weight
Too much material will weigh you down. The sixth segment in a series of 22 highlights how weight affects a plane. Pupils learn that engineers take the properties of materials, including weight, when designing something.
Curated OER
Chapter 12 Review, Section 1: Solutions
Here is a different approach to solutions: a worksheet that has chemistry learners use words to describe them! This is an outstanding exercise that will stretch learners to show what they know. They answer questions comparing solutions,...
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Why and How Atoms Combine
Here is a top-notch handout to supply your chemistry class with. It covers valence electrons, Lewis diagrams, the octet rule, and more! Technically it is less of a worksheet than a detailed explanation of these chemical bonding concepts....
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The Nature of Solutions
In this solutions worksheet, high schoolers compare different types of solutions and distinguish between the solvent and solute in a solution. This worksheet has 7 matching and 10 short answer questions.
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Transition Metals
Middle schoolers identify and describe transition metals. They discuss alloys and their benefits. Students research one common, alloy, its composition, properties, and uses. They are asked for some common properties of most transition...
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Deep Thoughts
Students examine what lies within the Earth. They research and create scale models illustrating the layers of the Earth and write skits advocating a travel plan to send a probe into the Earth's mantle.
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Solutions Test Review
In this solutions worksheet, students review the most commonly used solvent, give examples of an emulsifying agents and alloys, and use solubility curves to answer questions. This worksheet has 11 fill in the blank, 6 short answer, and...
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Aerospace Engineering
Students explore oil field applications of Shape Memory Alloys. For this engineering lesson students divide into groups and research mini research applications then complete a project.
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Properties of Matter
In this matter worksheet, high schoolers compare metals and non-metals, elements, and chemical and physical properties. This worksheet has 22 short answer questions.
eSchool Today
E School Today: Elements, Compounds, Substances and Mixtures
Learn about the classification of matter based on whether the chemical composition is pure or a mixture. Understand the definitions of elements, compounds, substances, and mixtures, and what the differences are between them. Five types...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Elements of Steel
This resource from the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Web site, which contains both an interactive activity and illustrated text, looks at the composition of different types of steel and their impact on technology.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Metallic Bonds
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial, students will begin to describe the electron-sea model of metallic bonding. They will explain how metallic bonding is responsible...
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Alloys
This resource will allow readers the ability to identify alloys and understand types of alloys.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemistry: Alloys
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of alloy and examples.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Metallic Bonding
A video tutorial helps illustrate a metallic bond, and explains several metallic properties based on the arrangement of electrons. [3:22]
NASA
Nasa: Material Analysis
Describes the use of alloys on the space shuttle, and how to analyze alloys using X-ray fluorescence.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Alloy
This site from the Encyclopedia Wikipedia provides the definition of the term, "Alloy," and then offers hyperlinks to special alloys. The information is very brief, but factual, and worth checking out on the subject.
Other
Tony's Home Page: Metals Used in Coins and Medals
A list of metals and alloys used in the coin and medal manufacturing industry.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Physical Properties of Steel
Looks at the physical properties of steel and its important uses in day-to-day life and in industry.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Properties of Nichrome Wire
Explains the properties of the alloy nichrome and what it is used for.