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Chymist

How Do We Affect the Quality of Our Atmosphere

For Students 9th - 12th
Explore the makeup of the earth's atmosphere. Using the set of specific experiments, pupils examine the main elements and compounds present in the atmosphere. Their study extends to investigate the effects of atmospheric pollution such...
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Polar Trec

Ice Cores: Modeling Ice Sheets

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Ice cores provide scientists with knowledge of historic melt layers, air temperatures, greenhouse gases, and climate stability. Scholars work in groups to build layers representing snow and ice over thousands of years. Then, groups...
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Captain Planet Foundation

Predicting Whether the Weather is Good for the Garden

For Teachers 4th
Can your class predict the weather? Show them how they can come close with a lesson about creating weather instruments, including weather vanes, barometers, wind socks, anemometers, and thermometers. Kids research weather patterns and...
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Journey Through the Universe

Where to Look For Life?

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Every year we discover new planets including more than 1,000 in 2016 alone. Will we ever find life on another planet? The lesson includes two activities to help scholars understand this concept. First, they analyze the temperature range...
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Curated OER

The Effect of Rain on Morning Temperatures

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders study the effects of the water cycle. They create a graph of the air temperature versus solar radiation on a rainy and clear 24 hour period using data from a provided link. Afterward, they answer questions to determine the...
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Curated OER

Rising Air

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars investigate the concept of rising air in the formation of clouds and precipitation. In this rising air lesson, students conduct an experiment with hot and cold water that shows how warm water rises due to thermal buoyancy....
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Curated OER

Weather Map

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders utilize several different types of maps to forecast weather conditions specific areas of the country. Air masses, wind, cloud types, fronts, and the pH of the rain is explored in this lesson.
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Curated OER

The Lake Effect

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders conduct an experiment demonstrating the effects of water and air temperature on precipitation. They create graphs demonstrating their findings using Claris Works for Kids.
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Curated OER

Cold, Clouds, and Snowflakes

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore satellite data and graphing. In this weather data analysis math and science lesson, students analyze NASA satellite data to draw conclusions about geographical areas where precipitation might have happened. Students...
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Curated OER

World Geography - Climate Notes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A challenging activity helps young geographers explore the temperatures around the world! They study how the Earth's land temperatures are affected by their proximity to an ocean, as well their latitude and their altitude. A very...
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It's About Time

Volcanic Hazards: Airborne Debris

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils interpret maps and graph data related to volcanic ash. Then they analyze the importance of wind speed and the dangers of the ash to both life, air temperature, and technology. 
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Interactive
Scholastic

Study Jams! Weather Instruments

For Students 4th - 8th
Concise, yet complete, this set of seven slides describes with photos and text the different basic instruments for measuring weather factors. After viewing, young meteorologists will be able to talk about how to measure humidity, wind...
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Curated OER

Planetary Weather

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars study the weather on other planets in our solar system.  In this planetary weather lesson students create a display of the different weather conditions on the other planets. 
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Curated OER

Honors Chemistry Ideal Gas Law

For Students 10th - 12th
In this ideal gas law worksheet, students are given a problem to solve using a hot air balloon. They are given the volume, mass, temperature of the air inside the balloon and the temperature outside the balloon. They determine if the...
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Curated OER

What is Weather?

For Students 7th - 9th
In this weather worksheet, students are given 13 statements about temperature, condensation, saturation, water vapor, humidity and snow. Students find the terms in a word search and fill in the blanks of the sentences.
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Curated OER

Daily Weather Log

For Students 7th - 9th
In this weather worksheet, students keep a log of the temperature, precipitation, air pressure, humidity and wind for a fourteen day period. They record each of these measurements twice a day.
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Curated OER

Gas Law Practice Sheet

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this gas laws worksheet, students solve ten problems using the various gas laws such as Boyle's Law, Charles' Law, and the ideal gas law. Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationships between temperature, pressure and...
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Curated OER

Using the Combined Gas Law

For Students 9th - 12th
In this combined gas law worksheet, students use the relationship between temperature, pressure and volume to complete a table using the combined gas law. They find volumes, pressure and temperature of substances given two of the...
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Curated OER

Are All Equilibria Created Equal

For Students 9th - 12th
In this equilibrium instructional activity, students read about the factors that effect equilibrium in solutions such as the pressure of the solution, the temperature and the concentration of the solution. They answer three multi-part...
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Curated OER

Vocabulary for Weather

For Students 7th - 10th
In this weather vocabulary worksheet, students define 34 terms related to weather and climate. Terms include instruments used to measure temperature, pressure, wind and humidity as well as types of fronts, conduction, convection and...
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Curated OER

WS 5.3 Combined Gas Law

For Students 10th - 12th
In this gas worksheet, students solve eight problems using the combined gas law to find either pressure, volume or temperature of a gas.
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Curated OER

Hot n' Cold

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students keep a weather log. For this weather and temperature lesson, students discuss the information that can be obtained from a map and lead into a discussion about temperature. Students watch a video about temperature and...
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Curated OER

Specific Heat

For Students 10th - 12th
In this specific heat worksheet, students are given examples to find the specific heats of substances and to use the specific heats to find the changes in temperatures of substances. Students solve eighteen problems using what they...
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Curated OER

Gas Law Homework Problem Set

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this gas law worksheet, students practice applying the gas laws by completing 4 word problems focused on volume, pressure, and temperature.

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