A lab where students determine the molarity of sugar and citric acid in samples of lemonade.
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum activity. In advance of an actual lab activity, students virtually simulate the calibration of a laboratory micropipettor. QL: Accuracy and precision.
Small groups of students examine a candle to consider its chemical properties. Class discussion follows to consider macro vs. molecular events, energy, phase changes, etc.
This activiy with cartesian divers introduces the gas laws in a high school chemisry class.
This video lesson aims to motivate students about chemistry and to raise their awareness about how chemistry helps in solving certain environmental problems. In this lesson, the air pollution problem created by cars and other vehicles is presented. The lesson will highlight causes of this problem, harmful products from it and possible solutions. There will also be discussion of ways to convert the pollutants produced by burning oil in vehicles into more friendly products.
Primary Strand
SCI.5.7.c Explain the role of energy in changing the phase of matter of a substance.
Integrated Strand
Reading 5.5a Summarize events in the plot in a fiction text
Reading 5.5m Use reading strategy of visualizing when reading fiction and nonfiction
In this lesson, students will read the mentor text What's the Matter With the Three Little Pigs? Students will summarize at stopping points throughout the book. Students will also find three examples from the book and how the matter changed.
This investigation will have students testing how heating and cooling can change the state of matter. They will test a variety of materials determine whether a change takes place through heating/cooling.
This activity is a lab where students make qualitative and quantitative observation on a chemical change. They will see that gases have mass in accordance with the conservation of matter.
This STELLA modeling and writing assignment helps students confront and replace common misconceptions about chemical equilibrium.
Spreadsheets Across Curriculum module. Students build spreadsheets to compare the time course of a reaction that goes to completion to that of an equilibrium reaction.
This activity covers balancing chemical equations, endothermic/exothermic reactions, and identifying the reactants and products. I used this activity as a homework assignment to reinforce what had been taught in class that day. It could easily be adapted for use as a warm-up, extension activity, extra credit, reinforcement, etc.
This activity is an inquiry-based investigation where students discover the indicators of chemical reactions (endothermic and exothermic) by collecting data and using that data to develop a testable question for further experimentation.
This activity provides students with the opportunity to gather data from a controlled experiment setting, interpret their findings and use the data to draw conclusions to solve a mystery.
Students will compare ingredients in two different pancake recipes, then taste the difference. We will talk about the chemical reaction that happened when the recipes are mixed and why there are bubbles in the pancakes.
This 10-minute video lesson discusses Carbon 14 Dating (1). [Chemistry playlist: Lesson 105 of 106].
This 10-minute video lesson discusses Carbon 14 Dating (2). [Chemistry playlist: Lesson 106 of 106].
This activity is a classroom lab where students observe and classify chemical and physical changes using the five characteristics of a chemical change, interpret their findings, and use evidence to support their findings.
A work in progress, CK-12 Chemistry Teacher's Edition supports its Chemistry book covering: Matter; Atomic Structure; The Elements; Stoichiometry; Chemical Kinetics; Physical States of Matter; Thermodynamics; Nuclear and Organic Chemistry.
Matching game, including matching common ionic charges and ions and the compounds they form and naming of greek prefixes for covalent molecules.
This activity provides a demonstration and lab exploration of one of the main "building blocks" of the periodic table of elements: chlorine. During the lab, students compare physical and chemical properties of chlorine compounds.