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Ionic Chemical Formulas Days 1 & 2
Students study polyatomic ions and write binary and ternary ionic chemical formulas. They explore putting together different monatomic ions and coming up with as many chemical formulas as possible. They play a game similar to memory...
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Unit Conversion in Chemistry
Hopefully by the time high schoolers are enrolled in your chemistry class, they are skilled with unit conversion. It does not hurt, however, to take an hour early in the school year to review this vital skill. This plan simply provides a...
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Chemical Equilibrium
In this chemical equilibrium activity, students review hydration, dissociation, and colligative properties. Students also review Le Chatelier's principle. This activity has 15 short answer questions and 12 problems to solve.
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An Experiment in Alchemy: Copper to Silver to Gold
How exciting would it be for your chemistry class to produce their own "gold"? This experiment allows pupils to witness the chemical reaction of copper pennies as they react with zinc and sodium hydroxide to produce "gold" tokens. It is...
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Classifying Chemicals
In this acids and bases worksheet, students identify the strengths of acids and bases and indicate the concentration of hydronium and hydroxide ions. They determine if given chemical formulas are acids or bases, they find...
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Balancing Equations and Identifying Reaction Types
In this balancing equations worksheet, students balance twelve equations by placing the proper coefficients in front of reactants and products and they identify the type of reaction each equation represents.
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Chemical Sleuthing
Students engage in a lesson which includes flame tests and the construction of a simple diffraction spectrograph with which to measure sodium ion emissions. They use the Bragg equation to compute the wavelength of the line spectra produced.
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Chemistry Quiz-Reaction Rates
In this reaction rates worksheet, students solve eight multiple choice problems about chemical reactions and their rates. They determine what species would slow reactions, they apply concepts of activation energy to reactions, they...
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Chemistry Worksheet-Equilibrium
For this equilibrium worksheet, students solve twenty problems including determining the effects of various stresses on chemical reactions, calculating equilibrium constants, determining heat of reactions and writing expression for...
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Biomass: Biogas Generator
It's a gas. Middle schoolers build a biogas generator following the directions in this resource. After a few days of observation, they demonstrate that the gas given off by the decomposing manure is flammable. The activity concludes as...
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Demonstrate Your Chemistry
High schoolers research and evaluate chemical reaction demonstrations that are found on the web. they work in small groups to choose a demonstration that fits a particular category of reaction and then perform the demonstration for the...
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Water
In this water learning exercise, students compare and contrast elements and compounds. Students define chemical symbols, chemical formulas, and chemical properties. This learning exercise has 19 short answer questions.
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Equilibrium Equations
In this equilibrium worksheet, students calculate the equilibrium constant for reactions and the equilibrium concentrations. This worksheet has 10 problems to solve.
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Reaction Reversibility
In this reaction reversibility worksheet, students find the equilibrium equation for a reaction of two gases and plot their concentrations over time. They answer 12 questions about the chemical reaction.
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Absorbance Curves: Using Spectrophotometers to Quantize the Effects of a Strong Acid on a Buffer
The Henderson-Hasselbalch equation combined logarithmic terms with the application of carbonic acid as a buffer solution. Scholars learn investigate equation and its applications through hands-on experiments. They collect data and...
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Chemical Calculations
In this chemical calculations activity, learners fill in 7 blanks with appropriate terms. They determine if 7 statements are true or false, they match 5 conversion problems to their solutions and they solve 2 stoichiometry problems using...
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Reacting Masses Problems
In this chemical reactions worksheet, students follow steps to determine the mass of compounds formed by the combustion of an element. This worksheet has 5 problems to solve.
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Titration Calculations
In this titration worksheet, students calculate the moles of acids in a given amount of solution. Students balance equations and calculate the concentrations of given acids. This worksheet has 10 problems to solve.
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Titration
In this titration learning exercise, students calculate the pH of a solution at different points during a chemical reaction. Students write a balanced net ionic equation for the major equilibrium reaction. This learning exercise has 3...
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Synthesis Reactions
Tenth graders write and balance chemical equations and make a PowerPoint presentation on synthesis reactions.
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Rusting-A Form of Oxidation
High schoolers conduct an experiment to observe oxidation. In this chemistry lesson, students explain how rusting happens. They rank metals according to their conductivity.
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Chemical Reactions
In this chemical reactions activity, students determine if solutions are acidic, basic, or neutral. Students give reactions' molecular equations and ionic equations. This activity has 14 problems to solve.
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Types of Chemical Reactions
In this chemical reactions instructional activity, high schoolers fill in 12 blanks, determine if 5 statements are true or false, match 4 types of reactions with their description and solve 2 problems related to balancing equations and...
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Household Chemicals
In this chemicals worksheet, students review how to read chemical labels, define an acid-base indicator, and decide which way strong acids can be dangerous. This worksheet has 15 short answer and 20 fill in the blank questions.