Clackamas Community College
Clackamas Community College: Distinction Between Chemical and Physical Change
Explains the difference between chemical and physical changes.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Observing,describing, Measuring Changing Physical Prop: Making Ice Cream
Students will create an endothermic chemical reaction by making ice cream. They will observe, describe, and measure the ingredients. After making ice cream, students will measure the temperature of the ice cream and the ice/salt mixture....
Utah Education Network
Uen: Changes in Matter Chemical Reactions They're Everywhere
Can you distinguish physical changes from chemical reactions? You'll be presented with a number of pictures and asked to identify those which are examples of chemical reactions.
Other
King's Centre for Visualization in Science: Scientific Models
A series of interactive applets use scientific models to teach some basic concepts of matter, including states of matter and physical and chemical changes.
Other
Study Stack: Changes in Matter
An online flashcard deck that reviews properties of matter. Test your knowledge of matter, chemical changes, and physical changes. Site allows you to put flashcards into two sections, those you know and those you don't. After separating...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Science Detectives
Students are given a scenario for this lesson where they must use investigative skills like a detective would to decide whether changes that happen to objects in the story are physical or chemical. They then conduct an experiment with...
American Chemical Society
Inquiry in Action: Exploring Baking Powder
An activity that allows students to discover the active ingredients in baking powder by studying chemical change. Lab activity includes both teacher and student instructions.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Mixtures and Solutions
This unit covers introductory concepts of mixtures and solutions. Students think about how mixtures and solutions, and atoms and molecules can influence new technologies developed by engineers. The first lesson explores the fundamentals...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: States of Matter
In this activity, students investigate physical and chemical changes in the states of matter for water. They collect data and record their observations.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's the Matter: Concentration Game
What's the Matter? is a guided inquiry lesson on classification of matter, physical and chemical properties, and physical and chemical changes. There are two parts to this lesson: (a) concentration game for definitions and (b)...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemistry: Physical Change
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers reversible and irreversible physical changes.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Physical Change
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of physical change and examples, and how physical changes can be reversed.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemistry: Physical Change
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of physical change and examples, and how physical changes can be reversed.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Changes of State
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of a change of state and the physical processes that cause it.
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Conservation of Mass Tutorial
Learn how mass is conserved in physical and chemical changes.
Science Struck
Science Struck: The Phenomena of Physical Change Explained
Explains what a physical change is and gives examples. The difference between a physical and a chemical change is also discussed.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Recognizing Chemical Reactions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Signs that a chemical reaction has occurred.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Changes of State: Chemical and Physical Changes
In this chemistry lab, students will investigate, observe, and describe a variety of chemical and physical changes in matter. They will understand that this is part of everyday life.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemistry Simulation: Camping Chemical and Physical Changes
[Free Registration/Login Required] Explore how heat and temperature relate to phase changes.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Plastic Polymers: Investigating Their Flexibility
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...
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Chemical vs. Physical Changes
Identify chemical and physical changes and the differences between the two.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Second Grade Science: Changes
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers reversible and nonreversible changes.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Netherlands: What Are Permanent and Temporary Changes?
In this lesson, students match a substance with its state of matter, identify what state something is, and learn about temporary and permanent changes in matter.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Changes of Matter
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is the third of three lessons. It covers the physical changes of matter and explains how chemical changes can be detected.