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Additional Aqueous Solution Review Problems
In this solutions worksheet, learners balance chemical equations, classify reactions by the type of reaction it represents, and review the solubility rules. Students practice working out double displacement, neutralization, and dilution...
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Problem Set For Final Exam-Organic Chemistry
In this organic chemistry worksheet, students solve 15 problems including identifying specific organic molecules, drawing organic molecules and completing reactions of organic molecules.
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Paint Property Experiments
Students identify various kinds of paints by using the scientific method. In this solvents lesson students collect data and identify paint samples while working in teams.
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How Do Antiretroviral Drugs Work?
In this biology instructional activity, students watch a series of videos and complete 10 short answer questions right after. They explain how ART drugs interrupt the life cycle of HIV.
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Qualitative Kinetics: Examining the Effect of an Enzyme on a Reaction
Scholars learn about kinetics and buffers as they use qualitative and quantitative methods to understand enzyme rates and buffer capacity. The application of Beer's Law and spectrophotometry solidifies pupils' knowledge in the first of...
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Zebrafish and Skin Color
You may not know if that zebrafish in your fish tank is a model citizen—but it is definitely a model organism! What can we learn about ourselves from a tiny zebrafish? Discover more about the polygenic trait of skin color through a...
NASA
Cleaning Water
Give young scientists a new appreciation of fresh, clean drinking water. After learning about the ways astronauts recycle their air and water, your class will work in small groups creating and testing their very own water...
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Cholera and the Scientific Method
Five individuals in the class are "infected" with cholera! The rest of the class serves as investigators to discover the source of the outbreak. They test drinking fountains around campus for contamination. You, of course, will secretly...
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Organic Chemistry II Exam 4
In this chemistry worksheet, students write the structures for the compounds listed at the top of the sheet. Then they name the compounds whose structures are illustrated. Students also write the mechanism for the reaction of methyl...
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Chemical Leavening Agents
Students examine chemical leavening agents in dough and batters.
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Does Size Matter?
Middle schoolers explore chemical solutions. In this chemistry lesson, students investigate the relationship between three related experiments about solutions. Middle schoolers determine variables that affect the chemical concentration...
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How to Think Like a Scientist
Fifth graders study the scientific method and understand how to apply it. In this "thinking like a scientist" lesson students complete several activities.
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How Mutations Lead to Changes in Cell Structure and Function
High schoolers investigate how mutations lead to changes in cell structure and function. They construct an oligonucleotide, identify a protein sequence, design a step-by-step mechanism of how they think cells repair damaged DNA, and...
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The Heat is On!
Fifth graders investigate evidence for changes in matter that occur during a chemical reaction.
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You Gave Me What?
Young scholars see how an infectious disease such as AIDS may be quickly transmitted throughout a population. They conduct a simulated transmission of an infectious disease and mathematically determine the number of possible infected...
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Over-The-Counter Antacids
Young scholars investigate the best antacids for sour stomachs. In this antacids lesson plan, students use different antacids, balloons and flasks containing 0.1 M HCl. They place the balloon with the antacids in them on top of the flaks...
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Vitamins
Students determine the amount of vitamin C present in 3 samples of juice stored in various light conditions. In this vitamin lesson plan, students investigate the amount of vitamin C present in juice exposed to different quantities of...
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Pandemics and Epidemics
High schoolers evaluate data related to population growth, along with problems and soultions: disease cvontrol. They are able to explain how changes in habitat may affect organisms. Students evaluate evolutionary theories and processes.
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pH and Titration
In this pH worksheet, students review the titration procedure and the significance of the stoichiometric point. This worksheet has 2 problems to solve.
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Bridge Cable Corrosion
Students investigate the corrosion of different materials in the lab. In this chemistry lesson, students construct a bridge considering different bridge designs. At the end of the lesson, they play the role of scientists and engineers...
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pH
Learners use a Colorimetric test to measure pH and gain the importance to life in an aquatic ecosystem pH is. They explore the dramatic effect pH level can have on a water body. Students test the pH level of many water samples.
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Mixtures
Sixth graders experiment with mixtures. In this chemistry lesson, 6th graders determine which mixtures are considered heterogeneous, a suspension, a solution or a colloid. Students create a data sheet of what they discover.
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Observing Osmosis in a Chicken Egg
Tenth graders develop a hypothesis and explain what they observed on an activity. In this investigative lesson students observe osmosis and report their data using a graph.
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I Need Room to Breathe
Seventh graders explore how exercise affects carbon dioxide levels in exhaled air.