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Curated OER

Physical Difference and Classification

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners use a microscope and observation skills to compare and contrast several physical properties and develop a classification system.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Graphing Your Motion-Day 1

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore the concepts of motion, velocity and acceleration through graphing their own movement using LoggerPro. They become more familiar with the computer technology. Students explore graphing in real time and graph on...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Snow Cover By Latitude

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine computerized data maps in order to create graphs of the amount of snowfall found at certain latitudes by date. Then they compare the graphs and the data they represent. Students present an analysis of the graphs.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Science Word Search

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, students look for the words that are related to the theme of the sheet in the word search. They also work on spelling skills.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: Fluid Statics: Density

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to define density, calculate the mass of a reservoir from its density, and compare and contrast the densities of various substances.
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Lesson Plan
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Density of Water

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners discover the concept that density is a characteristic property of water by measuring the volume and mass of water and calculating its density.
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Activity
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Density

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive simulation that teaches about density, mass, and volume through explorations of mass and volume with different objects. This simulation can either be downloaded or played online and includes handouts, lesson plans, and...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: What Is Density?

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial is an explanation of the properties of density.
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Unit Plan
Vision Learning

Visionlearning: General Science: Density

For Students 9th - 10th
Instructional module focusing on density as a physical property of matter. Discussion incorporates historical references as well as formulas. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to the topic.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Density of a Penny

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn how to measure the volume and mass of an object and use that to compute density. They will then use that density to talk about experimental errors and accuracy of measurements.
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Lesson Plan
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: What Is Density?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Calculate the density of cubes made of different materials to determine what type of material it contains. Using this information explain that the size, mass, and arrangement of the atoms or molecules of a substance determines its density.
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Lesson Plan
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Finding Volume: Water Displacement Method

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use the water-displacement method to find the volume of different rods that all have the same mass.
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Dollars for Density

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This is a guided inquiry activity in which students use simple lab procedures and discussions to develop and apply the concept of density. Students collect and graph data which they use to explore the relationship between mass and...
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Activity
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Is All Ice Created Equal? A Density Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lab experiment that shows students that different molecules melt in different ways. This lab also allows students to practice calculating and finding density, mass, and volume. Lesson plan includes lab handout for students.
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Lesson Plan
University of Hawai'i

Density (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The purpose of this lesson plan is to find the density of regular (volume can be with a mathematical formula) or irregular objects through water displacement. Uses actual SI units (g/cubed cm).
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Interactive
Other

Sim Bucket: Density Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
Use water displacement and a mass balance to determine the density of various objects in this interactive simulation.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Density Triangle and Examples

For Students 9th - 10th
The density triangle is a memory tool to help students remember the formula for density, D = M / V, and its variations.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Chemistry: Density

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers density and provides examples of density calculations.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Interactive Geometry: 9.6 Density Problems

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Density is a ratio of the mass/people/things to volume/area. Given the density and one of the two quantities in the ratio, solve for the other quantity in the ratio.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Density: Determined by Using Mass and Volume of a Substance

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students investigate the history of density, its uses, and applications. Students will generate and calculate data applying it to a graph. They will be looking at the relationship between mass and volume.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Floating and Sinking: Density

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This investigation introduces the concepts of volume, mass, and density and how they interact. Students will make predictions of whether an object will float or sink after finding mass and volume of an object.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mineral Density: Teaching Accuracy, Slope, and Percent Error

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the meaning of density and use their math skills to graph mass/volume data, write an equation for a line, and interpret the slope of the line. Students also find the density of two unknown mineral samples and use those...
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Unit Plan
CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Finding Amounts of "Stuff": Exploring Density

For Students 5th - 9th
Learn what density is and how to calculate it using mass and volume.
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Activity
University of California

Ucla K 6 Physics/astronomy: Mass, Weight, and Density

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This website provides explanations of mass, weight, and density with directions for building simple scales and balances. Provided as encouragement to teach these concepts to young children, it offers a good review for older students.

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