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Water Filtration Competition
Students design water filtration systems. They draw sketches and write paragraphs about their systems. After presenting their systems to the class, each group then builds their system and determines its effectiveness for purifying...
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Introduction And Brief History of Materials Science
Young scholars develop an understanding of the concept of matter. They l participate actively in the bubble raft experiment as described on the Center for Thermal Spray Research's website. They demonstrate dislocations and grain...
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What Happens When Chemical Are Put Together?
In this chemical reactions worksheet, high schoolers answer 20 multiple choice questions about chemical equations, chemical formulas, oxidation and reduction reactions and acids, bases and salts.
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Crystal Growing
Students explore the different phases of a crystal. In this mineral lesson students grow their own sugar crystals using a sugar recipe.
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Minerals Review
In this earth science worksheet, students review the basic characteristics of minerals in the common categories of them all.
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Newton's Laws of Motion
Students investigate the effect of thin films to surface friction. In this physics instructional activity, students calculate the coefficient of friction using mathematical formulas. They discuss its importance in their everyday lives.
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Measuring Magnetic Field Strengths Using Ferrofluids
Learners explore the field of nanotechnology by examining magnetic field strength in ferrofluids. They use probes attached to a computer program to determine the relationship between magnetic field strength and magnetic field lines.
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Separation Before Plastic Recycling
Students participate in a demonstration to test the different densities of plastics, and suggest a method that plastic waste can be separated and collected.
Curated OER
The Little Transistor That Could
Students research the history of the transistor to explore the nature of technology. They complete a worksheet that coincides with given websites. Then they write a one-page essay about their findings.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Trends on the Periodic Table: Metals, Non Metals, and Metalloids
In this lab activity, students will be asked to observe and then test the physical and chemical properties of several different elements.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Properties of Cations: Flame Test Lab
In this lab, students will learn the relationship between color emitted by atoms of metal compounds and their electron structure by using the flame test.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Group and Periodic Properties Lab
Students observe and perform experiments with sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, sulfur ,and phosphorus. The discover trends down groups, across periods, and having to do with the pH of metal oxides vs. nonmetal oxides.
Other
Los Alamos National Labs: Astatine
Basic statistics, history, and properties of the halogen element, astatine.
Other
Los Alamos National Labs: Molybdenum
A nice readable summary of basic data, and information on the history, uses, properties and sources of molybdenum.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Burn Baby Burn!
The students will review the concepts of electromagnetic spectrum, properties of light, and the transition from ground to excited state of electrons in atoms. In laboratory groups, the students will identify the characteristic light...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Structure of Earth Materials
A college course featuring mineral image galleries, labs, and instructor's notes on the topics of crystalline structure, crystal chemistry, and bonding in rock-forming minerals.