3.1 Chemical Elements and Water

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Source Unknown, but wow!

Hydrogen bonding

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The Properties of Water

Crash Course Biology: Water – Liquid Awesome by Hank.

Water as a solvent

The diving bell spider uses surface tension and a little bit of web-gineering to build a bubble to allow it to live and exchange gases underwater. Click here to read more (as well as see a cool slideshow). Here’s a video:

How does water behave in zero gravity? Let’s find out at the international space station (this is really good):

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TOK: Water and Homeopathy

"Alternative Literature" from xkcd.com

“Alternative Literature” from xkcd.com

Here’s a very funny Mitchell and Webb clip about homeopathy:

Click here for more ToK and Biology about Chemical Elements and Water, homeopathy and pseudoscience.

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The Looming Global Water Crisis

For more resources, click here. What’s your Water Footprint?

To what extent does where you live experience water stress?

World Water Council: Global Water Stress

Here is Sonaar Luthra’s simple solution to testing water safety. Find out a little bit more about how it works here.

Frozen Planet challenge – explain this (brinicle)!

Key terms: elements, ions, compounds, water, cohesion, organic, inorganic, tension, thermal, solvent, sodium, nitrogen, carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, potassium,

  1. Dr.Sreekala Pillai

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    • Hi Bryan,

      Thanks for the comment. I followed the link to your own blog and will read it with some interest – I am now teaching mostly MYP Grade 10 Physics (and some Chem and IB Bio).

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