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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Chemical Bonds

For Students 9th - 10th
By working through this web-based activity, students differentiate between ionic, non-polar covalent, and polar covalent bonds. Specifically, distinctions are made between bonding types based on orbital shapes and electronegativity...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Chemical Bonds

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive activity developed for Teachers' Domain demonstrates how attractive forces between atoms create chemical bonds, resulting in the formation of molecules and compounds.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Functional Group

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopedia entry for functional groups that, in in organic chemistry, are specific groups of atoms within molecules that are responsible for the characteristic chemical reactions of those molecules.
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Handout
School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London

Queen Mary University: Glossary

For Students 9th - 10th
This Queen Mary University site features a glossary of chemical terms, including London forces.
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Handout
Other

Chemsite: Pure Substances vs. Mixtures

For Students 9th - 10th
An outline on the topics of pure substances and mixtures.
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Website
Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1934

For Students 9th - 10th
At this website from The Nobel e-Museum, read about Harold Clayton Urey (1893-1981 CE), the chemist awarded with a Nobel Prize "for his discovery of heavy hydrogen." Download Urey's Nobel Lecture, "Some thermodynamic properties of...
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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: How Can a Small Spark Start a Huge Explosion?

For Students 9th - 10th
Students explore connections between electric forces and molecules using simulations, and explain energy transfers using conservation of energy. This concept will be explored in the following activities. Activity 1 What makes materials...
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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: How Can a Small Spark Start a Huge Explosion?

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module Activity 3 investigates When atoms get close to each other, what happens to their potential energy? This activity applies energy concepts to compare the potential energy of atoms that are bonded as molecules with the...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Charles' Law and Ivory Soap

For Teachers 9th - 10th
With this activity students will observe and record the properties of various types of bar soap. They will discover that due to the ingredients some soaps are denser than others, and ivory soap will actually float. Students will see a...
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Online Course
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Mole and Avogadro's Number

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation the mole (named for molecule) and Avogadro's Number. One mole of a substance is equal to 6.022 times 10 to 23rd power units of that substance (such as atoms, molecules, or ions). The number 6.022 time 10 to 23rd power is...
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eBook
Chiral Publishing

Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Molecular Compounds: Audio Book

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about molecular structures in this easy-to-understand, audio book. See how valence electrons determine how atoms bond together, and look at the bonding inside some of the most common molecules around you.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Matter

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This Study Card stack enables students to review the concepts of matter, the kinds and classes of mater including atoms, molecules, elements, compounds, pure substance, and mixtures.
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Primary
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Science Education Center: Chemical Reactions in Action

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This video is a professional development resource that explores student misconceptions about atoms, molecules, and chemical reactions. It also gives some pedagogical approaches for approaching these subjects. [10:12]
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Article
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Nitrogen Oxides

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn interesting facts about nitrogen oxides, gases whose molecules are made of nitrogen and oxygen atoms and contribute to air pollution.
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Article
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Hydrocarbons

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about "hydrocarbons", chemical compounds whose molecules are made up entirely of carbon and hydrogen atoms.
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Lesson Plan
McREL International

Mc Rel: Glue Polymer (Whelmer #15 Learning Activity)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
An easy to do activity that investigates the basic principles behind chemical bonding. The activity is written in lesson plan format that meets NSES standards.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Characteristics of Matter

For Students 6th - 8th
Find out the basic characteristics and main properties of all matter.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Converting From Particles to Moles

For Students 9th - 10th
A guided slide show presentation illustrating how to convert from particles to moles.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Stereochemistry Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a 10-question quiz pertaining to stereochemistry.
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Activity
Bill Nye

Bill Nye: Hole Y Water

For Students 2nd - 5th
This tutorial from Bill Nye uses an experiment with water and sugar to show how matter is mostly empty space.
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Unit Plan
Next.cc

Next: Nano Technology

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about nanotechnology and why scientists are studying it by completing the three activities. Explore nanotechnology further by clicking on one of the numerous links provided.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Plastic Polymers: Investigating Their Flexibility

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars will use their prior knowledge about changes of matter to develop a hypothesis to test the physical properties of materials such as plastic (polymers) and how its chemical properties allow it to have unique physical...
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Absolute Zero

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers several paragraphs of detailed information on absolute zero, the lowest temperature that can be obtained in any macroscopic system.
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Website
Other

Classic Chemistry: Jean Perrin

For Students 9th - 10th
An excerpt of Perrin's paper "Brownian Motion and Molecular Reality". Includes references.

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