PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sound Waves: Interactive Lesson
Learn about sound waves, which move vibrations from one place to another through liquids, gases and solids, with this interactive lesson.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Traveling Sound
Students explore how sound waves move through liquids, solids and gases in a series of simple sound energy experiments. Understanding the properties of sound and how sound waves travel helps engineers determine the best room shape and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Energy of Music
Students are introduced to sound energy concepts and how engineers use sound energy. Through hands-on activities and demonstrations, students examine how we know sound exists by listening to and seeing sound waves. They learn to describe...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Properties of Matter
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial, students will begin to understand a substance according to its physical properties. Learn to distinguish between extensive and intensive...
eSchool Today
E School Today: What Is Matter
Learn about matter, its three states, changes of state, how matter behaves, and physical and chemical changes in matter.
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Exploding Baggies
Young scholars will witness a fascinating chemical reaction and learn how to identify when a reaction has occurred by combining simple ingredients.
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Color Changing Milk
Young scholars observe a molecular dance of bursting colors through exploring states of matter and learning that materials can be characterize by how they respond to water.
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Tie Dye Paper
Learners characterize materials by their state of matter and then combined materials to create a piece of colorful, tie dye-esque paper.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Bermuda Triangle: What Happens When an Object Gains or Loses Heat?
Learn about states of matter on a flight tour over the Atlantic Ocean.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Polymers & Plastics: Classification & Models
Students will use their prior knowledge about changes of matter including physical and chemical changes to examine and categorize various types of plastics (polymers). They will identify how their chemical properties allow them to have...
University of Waterloo (Canada)
The University of Waterloo: The Heating Curve
The heat of vaporization along with several other thermal properties are explained. Sample problems are given. Illustrations.
Channel 4 Learning
4 L: Science Essentials: Material World
Learn about topics related to the material world. Each topic includes facts, a glossary, an interactive quiz, printable worksheets, an image bank, and web links.
Oklahoma State University
Oklahoma State University: Chem 1215: Periodic Table
Explains different sections of the periodic table, and how they are used.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Phases of Matter: Interactive Lesson
Learn about the three phases of matter, and how the addition and removal of thermal energy (also known as heat) affects them.
Quia
Quia: Phases of Matter
Four activities for reviewing vocabulary and definitions related to changes in states of matter.
Other
Homewood City Schools: Classification of Matter
This Homewood City Schools site has an outline form and contains lots of information about the classification and composition of matter. Some of the topics covered are matter and temperature, changes in state, composition of matter, and...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: States of Matter
A comprehensive lesson plan site that contains a number of activities to aid in teaching about the states and properties of matter and the difference between a physical and chemical change.
Chem Tutor
Chem Tutor: States of Matter
A very descriptive site that allows students to understand the different states of matter at the atomic level. Also discusses the process of phase changes and displays phase change graphs. Thermochemistry is also touched upon for high...