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Unit Plan
Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Chemical Relationships: Acids and Bases

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of historical ideas that lead to the current day concepts of acids and bases. The Concept of pH is briefly introduced.
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Svante Arrhenius

For Students 9th - 10th
Svante Arrhenius was born in Vik, Sweden, and became the first native of that country to win the Nobel Prize. The award for chemistry was bestowed to him in honor of his theory of electrolytic dissociation. Arrhenius also developed the...
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Handout
Wyzant

Wyzant: Acids and Bases

For Students 6th - 8th
This site presents everything you need to know about acids and bases and more! Gives a nice description on what acids and bases are, properties of both, strong and weak acids and bases, an overview of pH, and much more.
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Article
Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Svante Arrhenius

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the life and work of one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry, Svante Arrhenius, who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1903, becoming the first Swedish Nobel laureate.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Electrolysis

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers a short explanation of the how the electrolysis process works with links to some of the scientific pioneers of electrolysis.
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Curated OER

Smithsonian Libraries: Scientific Identity: Svante Arrhenius (1859 1927)

For Students 9th - 10th
A portrait of Svante Arrhenius from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.