Curated OER
Build Your Own Sling Psychrometer
Students construct a sling psychrometer and they measure the relative amount of humidity in the air. They create their own experiment on how to construct a sling psychrometer and how they are going to measure the relative humidity in the...
Curated OER
Yogurt Production
Middle schoolers work together to complete an experiment making yogurt. They test different temperatures and different amount of ingredients. They record and analyze their data.
Curated OER
Heat Unit
Students define thermal equilibrium. They distinguish between internal energy and heat. Students describe how the quantity of heat that enters or leaves a substance is measured.
Curated OER
Relative Humidity
In this humidity activity, students use a graph showing hourly surface temperatures, dew points, and relative humidity to complete 10 fill in the blank questions.
Curated OER
Preventing Hypothermia
Students identify the causes of hypothermia. In this biology lesson, students investigate the different types of heat transfer and heat loss. They discuss several practical measures to avoid hypothermia.
American Chemical Society
American Chemical Society: Explore Chemistry: Water and Chemistry
Explore water's unique properties in the activities here. Includes ideas for starting a chemistry club, ideas for Earth Day, articles, and videos.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Changing State: Evaporation
Students build a model of a water molecule and design an experiment to see if adding energy affects the rate of evaporation.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Evaporation
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of evaporation, how it occurs, what affects its rate and evaporative cooling.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Evaporation: Determine the Variables That Affect the Rate of Evaporation
In this lesson, students will be able to explain and demonstrate the process of evaporation while discovering the variables that affect the rate of evaporation.
University of Nebraska
University of Nebraska: Transpiration Water Movement Through Plants
This tutorial examines how water moves through a plant. Follow the pathway that water takes through plants from the roots to evaporation from cells in the leaves. Learn what controls rates of transpiration, how environmental conditions...
American Chemical Society
Inquiry in Action: Evaporation
A lab experiment where students try to increase the rate of evaporation by adding heat to the water. Students will experience the process the evaporation with this activity.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Changing State: Condensation
Students investigate water cycle processes by testing how cooling affects the rate of condensation of water vapor.
PBS
Pbs Teachers:dimming the Sun
Conduct an experiment and investigate how air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, solar radiation and precipitation affect evaporation. Graph the data collected during the experiment.
University of Oregon
University of Oregon: Global Climate Animations
Check out this site for global climate animations. "Get a feel for why we have seasonal weather changes or why other regions have different weather than you do."