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Activity
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Beer's Law Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive simulation that teaches about Beer's Law, solutions, concentration, spectrophotometry, and more through observations to explore how much light is absorbed and transmitted with changes in thickness and color. This...
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Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Beer's Law Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
"The thicker the glass, the darker the brew, the less the light that passes through." Make colorful concentrated and dilute solutions and explore how much light they absorb and transmit using a virtual spectrophotometer!
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Light Intensity Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students complete this Beer's Law activity in class. Students examine the attenuation of various thicknesses of transparencies. From this activity, students will understand that different substances absorb light differently. This can...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Bone Density Math and Logarithm Introduction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This project shows the connection between engineering, science and math by having students learn the equation needed to calculate bone mineral density. Lesson includes an explanation of the equation as well as practice problems and a quiz.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Bone Mineral Density Math and Beer's Law

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students revisit the mathematics required to find bone mineral density, to which they were introduced in Lesson 2. They will learn the equation to find intensity and how to use it. There is a sheet of practice problems...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Cells Never Lie

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A forensics activity which deals with the idea of alcohol poisoning. Based on a Biology Lab on cell distruction in alcohol and Chemistry's Beer's Law.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Determine Concentration of a Solution: Beer's Law

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use a Colorimeter to determine the relationship between concentration and absorbance of nickel sulfate solution (Beer's law). They will then determine the concentration of a unknown sample using the standard curve.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: The Calibration Curve

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what Beer's Law and a spectrophotometer have to do with calibration curves. Describes the steps in making a calibration curve, by first making a set of standard solutions, then using a spectrophotometer to find the absorbance of...