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CHO Puzzle

For Teachers 8th - 10th
In this sugar worksheet, students complete a puzzle by circling all the words in the puzzle related to sugars. The remaining letters in the puzzle create a sentence describing the sugar molecules.
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Bouncing Balls

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create a polymer ball in the lab. In this chemistry lesson plan, students identify the different properties of the polymer they created. They explain what type of chemical reaction took place.
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Oil Embargo!

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders generate and analyze data to determine which and how much of two polymers best absorb oils, formulate procedure to accurately determine how many times its own weight particular polymer can absorb, and develop understanding...
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Biology E3 Project Instructional Plan

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders design a device to treat aneurism. For this biology lesson, 9th graders create a polymer in the lab and explain its uses. They identify the different diseases affecting the circulatory system.
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How Shocking

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners describe the characteristics of polymers and rubbers and how they improve human lives.  In this shock activity students build a shock absorbing structure using different polymer materials. 
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Making Slime: An Exercise in the Scientific method

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars make a polymer but they won't be getting instructions. They'll get materials and they must figure it out on their own and report the actual steps needed back to the teacher.
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Superballs

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars mix two different solutions to become more familiar with molecules and polymers. In this chemistry lesson, students decide whether or not the reaction between two solutions is chemical or physical. Young scholars then...
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Monomer and Polymer Chemistry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explain monomer/polymer chemistry of starches and sugars.
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The Chemistry of Life

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study atoms and chemical compounds. They identify certain elements essential to human health, describe physical and chemical properties of water, and name four types of polymers unique to all life forms. They explain how each...
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Materials and Process: Plastics

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students investigate the development of plastics in the twentieth century. In this plastics lesson, students complete image based discussion activities for the pictures and methods of polymers. Students create an object timeline...
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Building Polymer Cup Speakers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers construct their own speaker using a cup, coil and magnet. In this physics lesson, students establish a criteria to test them. They present their working speakers in class.
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Plastic Polymers

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners learn about plastic. In this plastic polymers lesson, students examine the properties of plastic, its variety of uses and how it is recycled.
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How to Clean Up an Oil Slick

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore how an oil spill is contained and cleaned up. They investigate an oil absorbing polymer that is hydrophobic, absorbs up to 19 times its own weight in nonpolar liquids, floats on water, and can be reused or disposed of by...
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The Four Groups of Biologically Important Compounds

For Teachers 7th - 12th
This is not they typical set of teacher instructions. It is an organized chart of the important organic compounds. For each, the involved elements, the name of the building block monomers, the names of polymers, extra information, and a...
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Polymerization Experiments

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students study the concepts of polymerization and the function of crosslinkage.  For this polymer lesson students complete a lab activity and write down their observations. 
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Polymerization of Nylon

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students demonstrate how to create polymers from monomers. In this chemistry lesson, students describe the properties of the new nylon produced. They research about a polymer they chose.
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Polymers and People

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify a historical example of how advances in science depend on advances in technology and vice versa.
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Polymer Physics on the Playground

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate what materials allow them to slide down a slide the fastest. They set up test procedures and carry out an experiment.
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Plastics by the Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate plastic resins and their uses. In this plastics lesson plan, students describe major plastic resins and what they are used for, they compare and contrast the properties of plastic resins and they list products that...
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Mystery Powders

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners describe the physical properties of polymers. In this chemistry instructional activity, students experiment on different polymer powders and identify each one of them. They record their observations and share them to class.
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Build a Better Bouncer

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create the best bouncing ball possible using basic substances. In this chemistry lesson, students describe the effect of additives to polymers. They graph and analyze their results.
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Condensation Polymerization: Preparation of Nylon 6/6

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students participate in a lab activity in which they synthesize nylon 6/6, calculate the percent yield by mass, identify the polymer as thermoplastic or thermoset, and determine the melting point, density and end-product use of the polymer.
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Intrinsic Viscosity

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students treat a high molecular weight polyvinyl alcohol polymer with potassium periodate. They measure the viscosity of polyvinyl alcohols.
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Man and Materials Through History

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
From the start of the Industrial Revolution, it only took 147 years for someone to invent plastic. This may seem like a long time, but in the history of inventing or discovering new materials, this is incredibly fast. An informative and...

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