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Chymist

Writing Chemical Equations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Communicate chemistry clearly with a concise guide to writing chemical equations. It covers everything from the parts of a chemical equation to the different types of reactions that budding chemists may encounter.
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Curated OER

Ink Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High school chemistry class members become "detectives for a day" and use the concept of paper chromatography to analyze a note left at the scene of a crime. Pupils test the ink on the note with a solvent, such as isopropyl alcohol, to...
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Chymist

An Experiment in Alchemy: Copper to Silver to Gold

For Students 9th - 12th
Use chemistry to change pennies into gold coins! The experimental procedure leads learners through the process of changing copper pennies to silver and then to gold. They record the mass of each coin through every step of the experiment.
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Beyond Benign

Sublimation

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Ah, caffeine! What would some of us do without it? Teach your high school chemistry class the concept of sublimation as they complete a hands-on experiment to visualize the changes caffeine undergoes during heating and cooling. They...
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Beyond Benign

E-Factor: Environmental Impact Factor

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Explore how chemical processes reduce production waste. The 19th lesson in a 24-part series has learners explore the impact of green chemistry techniques on waste in production scenarios. They consider petrochemicals, bulk chemicals,...
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Beyond Benign

Is It Easy Being Green Game Show

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Is it possible to create an environmentally friendly shampoo? Learners accept this challenge in the fifth lesson in a green chemistry series of 24. The analysis of their shampoo ingredients must address pH, exothermic reactions, and...
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Beyond Benign

Exothermic and Endothermic Reactions

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How can you tell the difference between endothermic and exothermic reactions? Chemistry scholars perform and observe two chemical reactions, measure the temperature throughout, then draw conclusions about changes in energy from their...
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Beyond Benign

12 Principle Match Up

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Can you find a match? Scholars review the 12 principles of green chemistry by playing a matching game. The second lesson of the series reinforces the principles from the first lesson. Individuals play the matching game and also complete...
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Beyond Benign

In Your Bathroom

For Students 6th - 8th
How toxic is your shampoo? The 20th instructional activity of the chemistry series of 24 examines the ingredients in common shampoos. Learners tally the number of toxic ingredients and create graphical representations to communicate...
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K20 LEARN

Untwining And Intertwining: Chemical Reactions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What happened when the chemistry teacher told a bad joke? There was no reaction! A creative take on the traditional reaction types instructional activity invites learners to draw their own conclusions about how compounds and elements...
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NASA

Exploration of a Problem: Making Sense of the Elements

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
When given too much data to simply memorize, it helps to sort it into manageable groups. The second lesson in the six-part series of Cosmic Chemistry challenges groups of pupils to take a large amount of data and figure out how to best...
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Nemours KidsHealth

Fire Safety: Grades 3-5

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Three lessons stress the importance of fire safety. Lesson one presents several articles listing fire safety do's and don'ts; using their newly-found knowledge, learners rewrite a newspaper article about a fire incident so that...
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Curated OER

Degradation and Weathering of Polymeric Materials

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Learners investigate issues of degradation and weathering of polymeric materials during their useful life. They evaluate photodegradable plastics and their viability as an environmental solution for litter and investigate the qualitative...
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Curated OER

Playing With Science

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scientists investigate the scientific concepts and principles that help make common toys such as hula hoops, yo-yos, slinkies, and silly putty work. As a class, they read "Backyard Rocket Science, Served Wet" to get a look behind...
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Curated OER

Science Lesson for Grade 12

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders perform dihybrid crosses and calculate phenotype and genotype ratios. In this series of science lessons, 12th graders explain the process of anodizing aluminum. They research on the benefits and harm caused by resonance...
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Curated OER

Physical and Chemical Reactions - Factors Which Affect Reaction Rate

For Teachers 7th - 12th
A total of five experiments lead chemistry pros to understand the difference between physical and chemical change. They also experiment with exothermic reaction factors that affect rate of reaction. The procedures are not written in the...
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Teach Engineering

Basically Acids

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Base your lesson plan on acids and bases on an informative resource. The first installment of a five-part module on the science behind Harry Potter has individuals investigate acid/base chemistry with the use of invisible inks. They also...
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Curated OER

Alkene Reactions

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
In this chemistry worksheet, young scholars write structural formulas for the products and illustrate stereo chemistry when necessary. Then they write the structures for the molecular formulas given for reactants and products for each...
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Curated OER

A Whiff of Danger

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Public health trainees read and write a summary of the article, "A Whiff of Danger". The article is not available through the link, but can be found on the National Center for Biotechnology Information website. After summarizing,...
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Curated OER

Balancing Equations Can Be Fun!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars participate in an online activity in order to master balancing equations before applying the concept to chemistry activities.
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Curated OER

Cool Liquids

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Chemistry neophytes use a temperature probe to assess the change as five different liquids evaporate. The implantation section suggests that they take readings every five seconds for a total of four minutes. They graph the data, look up...
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Curated OER

Evolutionary Relationships Based Upon Comparative Genetics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the protein cytochrome c in an attempt to use its genetic chemistry to study possible evolutionary relationships between organisms. The lesson integrates technology with the use computers to perform DNA analysis.
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Curated OER

Reaction of Substituted Benzene

For Teachers 11th - 12th
In this chemistry worksheet, students write the products for each of the reactions listed on the sheet. If there is no reaction they write N.R. There are 15 products to solve on the sheet.
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Curated OER

Organic Compounds and Physical Properties

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
In this chemistry worksheet, learners identify which has the highest boiling point, as well as the lowest. Then they identify which compound is least soluble in water and why. Students also classify each of the compounds listed on the...

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