Curated OER
Bouncing Balls
Learners create a polymer to demonstrate its properties and develop an awareness of the wide variety of uses for polymers.
Curated OER
Gopher, Part 2: Gopherin'
Students explore how to access a gopher site using a root menu. Several options are presented with their definitions and the fastest routes examined in this lesson. The lesson is designed for librarians with little or no net experience.
Curated OER
Enslaved and Running
Young scholars use runaway slave advertisements to discover how the language varies from the 18th to 21st century. Using primary source documents, they research the brutality of slavery and the desire of those in slavery to be free. ...
Curated OER
Pounds of Pollution
Students examine pollutants and investigate air pollution emitted by a car in a year. In this air pollution lesson students complete an activity and make calculations.
Curated OER
Scientific Graphs
Students organize data collected from their experiments using graphs. In this statistics and biology lesson, students organize their scientific data from an article into readable graphs. They define the usefulness of their graph and...
Curated OER
Furniture at Blakesley Hall
In this Blakesley Hall worksheet, students read about the furniture at Blakesley Hall in Yardley. This is all furniture from the 1600s and drawing are included with the descriptions.
Curated OER
"Charlotte's Web" - Transfer of Learning Across the Curriculum: From Literature to Science
Students research and write about the parts of a spider's body using educational software. They draw spiders using computer software.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Periodic Table Families
Given descriptions or specific element groups, students will use a Periodic Table to relate properties of chemical families to position on the table.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Periodic Table Trends
Given descriptions, scenarios, or groups/series of elements, students will use the Periodic Table to relate the size of the atomic radii, electronegativity, and ionization energy of elements to their position on the chart. Students will...
Other
Los Alamos National Laboratory: Periodic Table of Elements
An up-to-date periodic table of elements. Click on each element to see properties, history, sources, and uses. Very comprehensive.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Periodic Table
This interactive periodic table of elements allows students to click on each element, and read essential information about that element. Chemical elements are also listed alphabetically for quick reference.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Engineering and the Periodic Table
Students learn about the periodic table and how pervasive the elements are in our daily lives. After reviewing the table organization and facts about the first 20 elements, they play an element identification game. They also learn that...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Physical Science: The Periodic Table
This learning module allows students to use the organization of the periodic table to understand the element and their properties. By the end of the activity, students will be able to locate metals, nonmetals, and metalloids and the...
Google
Google for Education: Patterns in the Periodic Table
Learners study trends in the periodic table of elements, supplemented by the use of spreadsheet functions. The spreadsheet functions presented can be used on any data set.
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Atomic Theory and Structure: The Periodic Table
A description of the arrangement of elements on The Periodic Table based on electron configuration.
Web Elements
Web Elements Periodic Table: Caesium
A very helpful site with a great deal of information on caesium and its properties. Very helpful. Includes an audio track of a description of this element, as well as illustrative pictures.
Frostburg State University
General Chemistry Online: The Periodic Table Faq
Explore the answers to several commonly asked questions about the periodic table. Find out why the first elements on the table are unusual and identify who Lothar Meyer is.
Other
Periodic Table of Elements
This interactive periodic table provides information about each of the elements. This is a very comprehensive site.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Periodic Table Model
Students will use "element" cards to organize into a periodic table, using the symbols on the card.
Web Elements
Web Elements Periodic Table: Periodic Table of the Elements
This site has a periodic table on it. When you click on each element, it brings up information about it. Site is organized, detailed, and helpful for learning.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Periodic Table and Energy Level Models
Students interpret the information given in the periodic table to describe the arrangement of electrons on the energy levels around an atom.
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Atoms and the Periodic Table
As part of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, this site examines a list of related topics (in hyperlink format) on the atom and the Periodic Table of elements. Topics from light, particles, and waves to the Bohr model, quantum...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Trends in the Periodic Table
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students investigate specific properties that can be predicted by an element's position on the periodic table. Additionally, they will look at the formation of ions,...
Web Elements
Web Elements Periodic Table: Rhodium
This WebElements Periodic Table site offers an excellent summary of data on rhodium, its description and properties.