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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Balancing Act

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will use wooden atoms to model and balance a chemical reaction.
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Lesson Plan
OpenSciEd

Open Sci Ed: 7.1 Chemical Reactions & Matter Transformations

For Teachers 7th
This Chemical Reactions & Matter Transformationsun unit has students investigating where the students investigate the chemical reactions of a bath bomb.
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Lesson Plan
Children's Museum

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Exploding Baggies

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners will witness a fascinating chemical reaction and learn how to identify when a reaction has occurred by combining simple ingredients.
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Unit Plan
Open Ed

Open Ed Sci: 7.2 Chemical Reactions & Energy

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this 21-day unit, students are introduced to the anchoring phenomenon-a flameless heater in a Meal, Ready-to-Eat (MRE) that provides hot food to people by just adding water. They complete investigations to collect evidence to support...
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eBook
Chiral Publishing

Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Chemical Calculations and Chemical Equations [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This chapter on chemical calculations and equations focuses on equation stoichiometry. Learn how to convert masses, use limiting reactants, and calculate the molarity of a solution.
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Copper Caper

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A nice little activity where students make dull pennies shiny again using vinegar and salt.
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Interactive
California State University

Csudh Project for Chemistry: Mass, Moles, and Gfw

For Students 9th - 10th
Several basic problems dealing with the relationships between mass, moles, and the GFW.
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Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Egg Citing Science: Acids and Bases

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
An simple experiment that will allow students to observe the effects of acids and bases on an egg and to then discuss what these observations tells us about larger issues, like acid rain.
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Handout
Savvas Learning

Chemistry: Central Science Live: Properties of Solutions

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an excellent overview of the solution process. Content includes a focus on how a solution is formed, energy changes and solution formation, spontaneity and disorder, and solution formation and chemical reactions.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Identifying and Balancing Chemical Equations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This StudyCard stack will allow students to review balancing and classifying chemical equations.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Keep It Bottled Up: Linear Rates of Pressure Increase

For Teachers 9th - 10th
When two or more chemicals react, other substances such as gases may be produced. The rate at which the reaction takes place can be affected by a number of different factors including temperature. In this activity, you will see how...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Chemical Reactions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed to be used a pre-test over types of chemical reactions and balancing.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Enthalpy of an Ion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity you will: Explore exothemic and endothermic reactions. Create a classroom calorimeter to measure energy of a reaction.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Chemical Reactions: Investigating Exothermic and Endothermic Reactions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this 9th grade physical science guided inquiry, students will work in pairs to discover the indicators of chemical reactions. Each pair of students is assigned either an exothermic or endothermic reaction. Based on their observations,...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Combustion or Oxidation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students burn a magnesium strip to reinforce the concepts of chemical vs. physical changes, reaction types, conservation of mass, formulas and equations, stoichiometry, Lewis structures, and to explore the concept of oxidation/reduction...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Molar Volume of a Gas Determined via a Reaction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
During this experiment, students will react magnesium with hydrochloric acid to produce hydrogen gas which is collected inside a flask that has a Vernier Gas Pressure Sensor connected to it in order to determine the molar volume of a...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Qualitative Analysis: Guided Inquiry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this experiment, students will design and carry out a sequence of chemical reactions for the separation and identification of three metal cations from six unknown samples.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Hydrogen Oxygen Rockets

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate how to build and launch a simple rocket that uses hydrogen and oxygen gases that will be mixed to propel the rocket. Students learn the principles of combustion reactions, kinetics, stoichiometry of reactions,...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Observing,describing, Measuring Changing Physical Prop: Making Ice Cream

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will create an endothermic chemical reaction by making ice cream. They will observe, describe, and measure the ingredients. After making ice cream, students will measure the temperature of the ice cream and the ice/salt mixture....
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Maximizing Displacement: Mass, Volume and Density

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This problem-solving activity demonstrates the concepts of mass, volume, and density and how they relate to displacement.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Chemical Reactions and Pancakes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will hear a story about the ingredients that go into pancakes called, "Pancakes, Pancakes!" by Eric Carle. We will then discuss preference of light and fluffy vs. flat and rubbery pancakes. Students will compare...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Student Chemical Reactions Demonstrations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lab activity where students conduct and analyze assigned chemical reactions, then demonstrate and explain them to the class. Comprehensive lab handouts are included.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Chemical Changes: Reacting an Acid and Base

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this chemistry lab, students will investigate chemical changes that occur when acids and bases react. It is meant to introduce the concepts of chemical changes, gases have mass, conservation of mass, and balancing equations. Students...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Magic Paper

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson serves as an introduction to neutralization reactions. Students will observe that the goldenrod copy paper acts as an indicator changing colors and also that an acid can neutralize a base.