Curated OER
Intermediate Sentence Completion Exercise 36
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students examine 10 sentences that are missing words and select the appropriate words to complete each of the sentences and match them to the sentences. Student answers are...
Curated OER
Water Quality and Temperature
Students are led through three activities to explore the effect of temperature fluctuations on the growth and survival of aquatic plants, clams, and shrimp eggs.
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Primary Producers
Students examine the role of carbon in the oceans and how phytoplankton determine the levels present. In groups, they practice measuring primary productivity using two methods. They use the internet to research the role of phytoplankton...
Curated OER
Water Quality
In this water worksheet, students determine the factors that effect the solubility of gases, calculate the percent concentration of solutions, and give the balanced chemical equation for photosynthesis. This worksheet has 18 short answer...
Curated OER
Bioremediation
Students design and conduct investigations that illustrate the effect bioremediation has on organic matter and determine environmental applications. They, in groups, present their findings to the class.
Curated OER
Color Burst
Students gain experience in asking questions and conducting inquiry by exploring the separation of colors in water and other solvents; to communicate and share findings of student investigations.
Curated OER
THE SPREAD OF AIDS
Students perform a hands-on activity in which they simulate the spread of a disease such as aids. One student with unknowingly be the "carrier" of the infection and Students witness how fast it can spread.
Curated OER
Population Dynamics of Growth of Drosophila
Students investigate population dynamics such as variation in density of females, composition of food sources an environmental factors such as light and temperature on Drosophila. They then relate their findings to human populations and...
Curated OER
Technology as a Tool of Science
Students monitor streams, take stream surveys, collect chemical and macro-invertebrate and stream discharge data. Using a digital camera, students observe the percentage of various types of vegetation on the flood plan, riparian area and...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Effect of Temperature on the Rate of Dissolving
In this activity, students will use a Temperature Sensor to collect data and then analyze that data to determine the effect of temperature increases on the rate of dissolving. They will identify temperature as a factor in dissolving rate...
American Chemical Society
Inquiry in Action: Temperature Affects Dissolving
Answer the question of whether cocoa mix dissolves in hot water or cold water in this activity. Help students see how temperature affects the rate at which solids dissolve. This lesson includes teacher and student instructions.
American Chemical Society
Inquiry in Action: Dissolving a Substance in Different Liquids
This activity investigates the question of whether colored sugar dissolves at the same rate in water, vegetable oil, and alcohol. This lesson includes teacher information and student activity sheet.
American Chemical Society
Inquiry in Action: A Dissolving Challenge
A challenge where students are asked to make a lemon soda that holds as much carbonation as possible by using three ingredients. This lab experiment includes a demonstration, challenge, and mini-report. Also, this lab experiment includes...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Solubility
Learners can use this web-based activity to study solutions, as far as the intermolecular attractive forces that allow or do not allow a solvent to dissolve in a solute. Also discussed includes the solubility rule "like dissolves like"...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Rate of Dissolving
The rate of dissolving and the factors that affect it. [Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.]
American Chemical Society
Inquiry in Action: M&m's in Different Sugar Solutions
An activity to investigate the factors that affect the rate of a substance dissolving. In this activity, students see if the rate of dissolving of the M&M coat is changed by the amount of sugar already dissolved in water. This...
American Chemical Society
Inquiry in Action: Racing M&m Colors
An activity where students can experiment with whether different colors of M&Ms dissolve faster in water versus others. This lab includes a student worksheet and teacher instructions.
American Chemical Society
Inquiry in Action: M&m in Different Temperatures
An activity where students experiment with the effect of temperature on how fast the colored coating dissolves on M&M's. Activity includes student and teacher instructions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fifth Grade Science: Physical Science: Rate of Dissolving
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the rate of dissolving and the factors that affect it.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Lesson Plans: Does Temperature Affect Dissolving?
Students identify and control variables to design an experiment to see whether the temperature of a solvent affects the speed at which a solute dissolves.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Phytoplankton Productivity
A lab experiment to estimate the rate of photosynthesis by measuring the dissolved inorganic carbon found in the water. Students will be able to calculate primary productivity of the phytoplankton in this lab
American Chemical Society
Inquiry in Action: Temperature Affects the Solubility of Gases
Learn about the effect of temperature on the solubility of gases in this lab activity. This lab activity includes instructions for both student and teacher.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: A Sweet Drink Adventure 7
Students determine how the temperature of water affects the dissolving time of a sugar cube. They create, interpret and analyze graphs of data, find an equation of the line of best fit, and relate slope to rate of change.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fifth Grade Science
This customizable digital textbook covers topics related to fifth-grade science. It is Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) aligned.