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Concord Consortium: Where Does All the Energy in an Explosion Come From?
In this module Activity 3 investigates What changes in energy occur when atoms rearrange during a chemical reaction? This activity explores the relationship between energy and chemical reactions. A bonus reading includes Energy and...
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Concord Consortium: Where Does All the Energy in an Explosion Come From?
In this module Activity 2 investigates What happens to atoms during a chemical reaction? In this activity students explore chemical reactions and develop a model to explain observations of chemical reactions.
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Concord Consortium: Where Does All the Energy in an Explosion Come From?
In this module Activity 1 investigates What energy changes occur during an explosion? Students make observations of exploding balloons and a simulation, and ask questions about what occurs during an explosion, setting the scene for more...
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Concord Consortium: Where Does All the Energy in an Explosion Come From?
Students construct a model of chemical reactions involving energy and electrostatic interactions and compare reactions and changes in energy through the following activities. Activity 1 What energy changes occur during an explosion?...
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Concord Consortium: How Can a Small Spark Start a Huge Explosion?
In this module Activity 4 investigates How are bonds formed and broken? This activity explores the relationship between energy and the formation and breaking bonds, using the ideas of energy transfer and conversion.
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Concord Consortium: How Can a Small Spark Start a Huge Explosion?
In this module Activity 3 investigates When atoms get close to each other, what happens to their potential energy? This activity applies energy concepts to compare the potential energy of atoms that are bonded as molecules with the...
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Concord Consortium: How Can a Small Spark Start a Huge Explosion?
In this module Activity 2 investigates What holds the atoms of a molecule together?The activity will explore what holds atoms together and why they from a molecule. Bonus reading includes Same Molecules but Different Representations.
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Concord Consortium: How Can a Small Spark Start a Huge Explosion?
In this Activity 1 investigates What makes materials different from each other? Students will continue to learn about energy and to investigate how energy changes relate to changes in matter. Students will also explore what makes...
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Concord Consortium: How Can a Small Spark Start a Huge Explosion?
Students explore connections between electric forces and molecules using simulations, and explain energy transfers using conservation of energy. This concept will be explored in the following activities. Activity 1 What makes materials...
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Concord Consortium: Where Does the Energy of a Spark Come From?
Activity 4 of this module investigates Why do I get shocked if I am too close to the Van de Graaff generator? This activity explores what happens to the potential energy of a system when objects are allowed to move freely (not held in...
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Concord Consortium: What Makes Water Special?
Activity 2 investigates Why is water different from other liquids? This activity will investigate properties of different liquids. Students will explore what makes honey gooey and thicker than water. And why some liquids evaporate faster...
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Concord Consortium: What Makes Water Special?
Activity 2 investigates Why is water different from other liquids? This activity will discover the properties of different liquids. Students will explore what makes honey gooey and thicker than water. And why some liquids evaporate...
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Concord Consortium: What Makes Water Special?
In Activity 1 investigates How are water and other liquids similar and different? The student will see if ideas involving energy, electrostatic interactions, and atomic structure, can be used to explain why a hurricane is so powerful.
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Concord Consortium: What Happens to the Energy of Water Molecules During Hurricanes?
Activity 2 investigates How Hot Can Water Get? In Activity 2 students analyze the relationship between energy changes and phrase changes as they discuss what happens when water boils. Bonus reading includes Why is Temperature Constant...
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Concord Consortium: What Happens to the Energy of Water Molecules During Hurricanes?
Activity 1 investigates What does boiling do to water molecules? In this activity students will collect evidence to analyze what happens to water during boiling.
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Concord Consortium: What Happens to the Energy of Water Molecules During Hurricanes?
In this investigation students will add energy to the model of how molecules interact by completing the following activities. Activity 1 What does boiling do to water molecules? Activity 2 How hot can water go? Activity 3 How does energy...
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Concord Consortium: What Makes Water Special?
Activity 4 investigates How does electron distribution impact our observations? Students have described how properties of molecules change depending on what atoms make up the molecule. In this activity students will use those ideas to...
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Concord Consortium: Where Does All the Energy in an Explosion Come From?
In this module Activity 4 investigates How does a spark trigger an explosion?
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The Concord Consortium: Why Do Some Things Stick Together and Other Things Do Not?
In this learning module, students will observe interactions between objects, including objects with electric charges to identify patterns in how things interact.
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The Concord Consortium: What Are Some Examples of Things That Stick Together and Things That Do Not?
In this learning module from The Concord Consortium, students will watch what happens when a Van de Graaff generator is used.
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The Concord Consortium: What Are Some Patterns in How Things Stick Together or Push Apart?
In this learning module from The Concord Consortium, students will start to develop their own computer simulation models of how attraction and repulsion between charged objects work.
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The Concord Consortium: What Effect Do Charged Objects Have on Uncharged Objects?
In this learning module from The Concord Consortium, students will will explore how uncharged objects interact with charged objects.
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The Concord Consortium: How Do I Know if Something Is Positively or Negatively Charged?
In this learning module from The Concord Consortium, students will learn how to figure out whether an object has a positive or negative charge.
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Concord Consortium: What Makes Water Special?
Students will develop explanations connecting observations of water with properties that water exhibits through the following activities. Activity 1 How are water and other liquids similar? Activity 2 Why is water different from other...