Elementary grade students investigate heat transfer in this activity to design and build a solar oven, then test its effectiveness using a temperature sensor. It blends the hands-on activity with digital graphing tools that allow kids to easily plot and share their data. Included in the package are illustrated procedures and extension activities. Note Requirements: This lesson requires a "VernierGo" temperature sensing device, available for ~ $40. This item is part of the Concord Consortium, a nonprofit research and development organization dedicated to transforming education through technology. The Consortium develops digital learning innovations for science, mathematics, and engineering.

These are simple ways to demonstrate water chemistry concepts such as adhesion, cohesion, and polarity to students in a hands on way using easy to find and inexpensive lab materials. The lesson was originally designed to align with a biology course to teach the impact of water on life, but it could also be modified to fit a chemistry or physical science curriculum.

Explore the concept of evaporative cooling through a hands-on experiment. Use a wet cloth and fan to model an air-conditioner and use temperature and relative humidity sensors to collect data. Then digitally plot the data using graphs in the activity. In an optional extension, make your own modifications to improve the cooler's efficiency.

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. It was developed by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with Virtual Virginia. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates the process of synthesizing nylon.

Polymer, forceps, nylon.

VA SOL CH.6

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates the equipment students need to know when taking Chemistry I.

Survey of standard lab equipment, including: lab burner, striker, beakers, iron ring stand, iron ring, ceramic gauze, beaker tongs, test tubes, test tube tongs, test tube rack, Florence flask, Erlenmeyer flask, volumetric flask, meniscus, graduated cylinder, beaker and test tube brush, crucible and cover, crucible tongs, clay triangle, burette, glass stirring rod, evaporating dish, spatula/scoopula, mortar and pestle, watch glass, forceps

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. Through the burning of snack foods, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates the principles of food calorimetry. VA SOL CH.5

This video is a very simple demonstration of how to build a battery. Meets VA SOL CH.3

Hands on Chemistry is a resource produced by Blue Ridge PBS designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates types of graduated cylinders that students will become familiar with.

Keywords: How to use a graduated cylinder, meniscus, estimating volume, different sizes of graduated cylinder

Meets VA SOL CH.1 a-f

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. It was developed by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with Virtual Virginia. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates measurement, estimation, prediction, scale, and the metric system.

Keywords: using whole numbers, principles of estimation, meters, decimeters, centimeters, millimeters

Meets VA SOL CH.1 a-f

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. It was developed by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with Virtual Virginia. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates the flame test, which shows the various colors of the flames of chemicals.

Keywords: electrons, ground state, excited state, sodium, calcium, potassium, strontium, copper, lithium, orbitals, electron configuration

Meets VA SOL CH.2

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. It was developed by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with Virtual Virginia. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates the structure of atoms using simple models.

Keywords: shapes of atoms, electrons, elements, linear structure, sulfur dioxide, H2O, Hydrogen, Oxygen, lone pair, Ammonia, Nitrogen, Hydrogen, Sulfur Trioxide, trigonal planar, Methane, Carbon, tetrahedral, Phosphorous Pentachloride, trigonal bipyramidal

Meets VA SOL CH.3

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. It was developed by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with Virtual Virginia. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates decomposition using Hydrogen Peroxide and catalyst Manganese Dioxide.

Keywords: reaction types, decomposition, single displacement, Hydrogen Peroxide, Manganese Dioxide

Meets VA SOL CH.3

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. It was developed by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with Virtual Virginia. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates single displacement reaction using Magnesium and Hydrochloric Acid.

Keywords: single displacement reaction, Hydrochloric Acid, Hydrogen, Magnesium Chloride, limiting reactant

Meets VA SOL: CH.3

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. It was developed by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with Virtual Virginia. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates a double displacement reaction using Potassium Iodide and Lead.

Keywords: double displacement reaction, potassium iodide, lead nitrate

Meets VA SOL: CH.3

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. It was developed by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with Virtual Virginia. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates a combustion reaction using alcohol vapor and an electrical charge.

Keywords: combustion reaction, carbon, oxygen, combustible carbon fuel, Tesla coil, gas, vapor, carbon dioxide

Meets VA SOL: CH.3

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. It was developed by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with Virtual Virginia. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates a synthesis reaction to create a new compound from Iron and Sulfur to make Iron Sulfide.

Keywords: synthesis reaction, compound, iron, magnetism, sulfur, iron sulfide, heat reaction, lab burner

Meets VA SOL: CH.3

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. It was developed by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with Virtual Virginia. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates a single displacement reaction using Copper.

Keywords: single displacement reaction, limiting reactant, copper chloride, H2O, Aluminum, copper

Meets VA SOL: CH.4

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. It was developed by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with Virtual Virginia. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates concentrations of solutions, molarity, and dilution.

Keywords: concentration of solutions, molarity, moles per liter, potassium permanganate, dilution, pipette, serial dilution

Meets VA SOL: CH.5

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. It was developed by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with Virtual Virginia. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates qualitative titration of acids and bases.

Keywords: titration, neutralization point, base, sodium hydroxide, molarity, hydrochloric acid, indicator, phenolphthalein

Meets VA SOL: CH.5

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. It was developed by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with Virtual Virginia. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates the principles of Quantitative Titration.

Keywords: qualitative experiment, quantitative experiment, burette, titrant, concentration, solution, volume, concentration of unknown solution

Meets VA SOL: CH.5