Content Videos (Lectures and animations to supplement lessons):
Interactives (Online activities for student interaction & practice with content):
- The Structure of Metal (This interactive activity from NOVA describes the crystalline structure of metal and uses animations to illustrate the molecular changes that occur when a metallic substance is bent, heated, or otherwise changed by external forces)
- The Elements of Steel (It’s not easy to imagine modern life without stainless steel. This interactive activity and illustrated text from the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Web site offers an in-depth explanation of steel and other alloys and how they’ve affected modern technology. An interactive table displays the contents and characteristics of seven elements that are commonly used in the production of steel alloys. Two text essays detail iron and steel production and why the non-corrosive, rust-resistant, and lightweight properties of stainless steel have revolutionized industries from medicine to transportation)
- Extraction of Metals from Ores (students learn about the properties of metals, uses of transition metals, the reactivity series of metals, extraction of unreactive metals from their ores, and recycling metals)
- Reaction of Metals with Oxygen & Water Simulation (students learn how different metals react with oxygen and water and know how to name the products and identify patterns in these reactions)
- Metals in Aqueous Solutions: Online Experiment (in this activity, students test several metals in various aqueous solutions and observe the results)
- Reaction of Metals with Acid Simulation(students learn that metals react with acid to produce salt and hydrogen and find out how to test for hydrogen gas)
- Reactivity Series of Metals Simulation (students learn how metals react)
Games (Online games for students to apply & test their content knowledge):
- Gridlock Level 3: Naming Metal Compounds
- Gridlock Level 2: Iron & Steel
- Extraction
- Uses of Metals & Their Alloys
- Gridlock Level 1: Alloys
- Invar® & Steel Alloys (This game is a crash course in how to make steel alloys. Alloys are mixtures of substances in which the resulting material has metallic properties. They are usually produced by melting the mixture of ingredients. Steel, brass and amalgam are a few examples of alloys. Invar, from the word “invariable”, is a special steel alloy – used today in toasters and CRT-monitors, for example. In the game you will be given “an order” to make a special steel product – a different product each time you play. Your mission will be to find the steel alloy that suits this product best, mix the “ingredients”, and finally, try to place as many molds as possible on a “steel dough”. If you’re quick at making alloys you could end up on the all-time high score list!)
