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Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Weak Acid and Base Problems

For Students 9th - 10th
Textbook-style weak acid and base problems that can be checked using the Virtual Lab.
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Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Determine the Concentration of Acetic Acid in Vinegar

For Students 9th - 10th
A virtual lab where students determine the concentration of acetic acid in vinegar using a 0.110 M NaOH standard solution and an acid-base indicator, phenolphthalein.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Melting Ice

For Students 6th - 8th
Using temperature probes, students will monitor the temperature of melting ice cubes in different situations. This lab activity, allows students to view the procedure and answer questions online that can be saved and evaluated by the...
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Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College: Chem Lab: Vacuum Filtration

For Students 9th - 10th
Vacuum filtration is a technique for separating a solid product from a solvent or liquid reaction mixture. This comprehensive site addresses setting up and performing vacuum filtration.
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Royal Society of Chemistry

Royal Society of Chemistry: Kitchen Chemistry: Salt and the Boiling Point [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
An experiment where students test how the boiling point of water is affected by adding salt. The experiment is well laid out with pictures that show how to perform the experiment.
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Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College: Chem Lab: Quantitative Transfer

For Students 9th - 10th
A Quantitative Transfer simply means that all the material to be transfered from one place to another must make the trip, down to the last particle. Use this site to find out how to correctly transfer a solid and a liquid.
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Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College: Chem Lab: Repipet

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn what a repipet is and how it is used in this brief but informative site.
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Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College: Chem Lab: Spectronic 20 Analog

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains how a Spec. 20 spectrometer measures the amount of visible light absorbed by a colored solution. Requires QuickTime plug-in for some features.
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Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College: Chem Lab: Digital Spectrometer

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains how a digital spectrometer measures the amount of visible light absorbed by a colored solution.
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Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College: Chem Lab: Scanning Spectrometer

For Students 9th - 10th
The scanning spectrometer measures absorbance vs. wavelength for liquid samples. Directions on how to use this instrument are provided here.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Scientific Methods Equipment for Chemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
Given laboratory investigation scenarios, students will determine the equipment that best fits the procedure.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Lab Safety Rules

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students explore and review safe practices during laboratory and field investigation in science.
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University of Nebraska

David Brooks: Henry's Law Experiment

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site learn about Henry's law through this hands-on experiment. Lab instructions are complete including step-by-step pictures an worksheet.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Half Life Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity explains how students use a CBL2 and TI-83 or TI-84 calculator to collect and calculate the half-life of a barium isotope. Students can use an isogenerator to milk out a meta stable isotope of Barium with a short half-life....
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Curated OER

Royal Society of Chemistry: Lab Equipment

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Glass lab equipment are important to any science lab.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Environmental Engineering and Water Chemistry

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students are introduced to the fundamentals of environmental engineering as well as the global air, land and water quality concerns facing today's environmental engineers. After a lesson and activity to introduce environmental...
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Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Mission Critical Chemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
Students use stoichiometry and thermochemistry to design a new fuel for a mission to Mars. In this activity, students work in teams using the virtual lab to characterize a new set of oxidants and reductants that can serve as a fuel for...
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Handout
Yale University

Yale University: General Chemistry Lab Techniques: Burets

For Students 9th - 10th
Tutorial shows proper procedure for handling a buret and using this piece of laboratory equipment to measure liquid volume. View accompanying video full-length [18:00] or in segments.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Kool Aid Chemistry

For Teachers K - 1st
An investigation where students learn about dilutions by studying different dilutions of kool-aid with their five senses.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Bridging to Polymers: Thermoset Lab

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students act as engineers to learn about the strengths of various epoxy-amine mixtures, and observe the unique characteristics of different mixtures of epoxies and hardeners. Student groups make and optimize thermosets by combining two...
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Other

Los Alamos National Labs: Indium

For Students 9th - 10th
A summary of basic data, along with information on the history, sources, uses and properties of indium.
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MadSci Network

The Mad Scientist Network: Chemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
The question: "What makes something sublimate?" is discussed and explained. Project ideas pertaining to sublimation are suggested.
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Website
University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh: X Ray Crystallography Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the University of Pittsburgh crystallography departments home page. The site has links to programs, facilities, research, etc.
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Other

Chemistry 101: Titration of Acetic Acid in Vinegar

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Material that can serve as guidelines for a teacher-lead demonstration or student lab experiment. Provides introduction, learner outcomes, safety guidelines, and detailed procedures.

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