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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Molecules Matter

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students observe and discuss water on the molecular level using the idea that water is composed of tiny molecules that are attracted to one another.
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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Changing State: Evaporation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students build a model of a water molecule and design an experiment to see if adding energy affects the rate of evaporation.
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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Temperature and Density

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Observe how heating and cooling affect the density of water. Combine the concepts of temperature, molecular motion, and density to learn that hot water is less dense than room temperature water and that cold water is more dense.
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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: P H and Color Change

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars see a demonstration of a color change using universal pH indicator and then change the concentrations of an acid and a base using a universal indicator to test the pH of the resulting solutions. Through an animation, they...
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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Carbon Dioxide Can Make a Solution Acidic

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explain that carbon dioxide from any source reacts chemically with water to form carbonic acid. They will also be able to use the color changes of universal indicator to monitor the changing pH of a solution during a chemical...
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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Changing State: Melting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Discover the concept that energy transfer and molecular motion cause the change in state from a solid to a liquid. Also compare state changes of water to the state changes of other substances.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Do Water Molecules Have Space Between Them?

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
In this chemistry lab, students investigate whether water molecules have any space between them by filling a glass with water, and adding salt without the water overflowing. They will also experiment with the temperature of the water.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Making Bath Salts for Mother's Day, a Primary Chemistry Lesson

For Teachers K - 1st
What do you know about salt? For this chemistry lesson, students will learn different things about salt: the chemical name, it's periodic table number, it's shape under the microscope, how it dissolves in water, and how to make a mixture...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Introductory Concepts in Soil Chemistry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this introductory lab activity, students will collect data that will graphically illustrate the relationship between mass and volume in determining the density in chemistry. Based on density, students will seek to determine a...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Determining the Density, P H and Water Content of Various Area Soils

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this chemistry field lab, students will determine the density, pH, and water content of 4 types of soil. Students compare class data and write a lab report describing their results and then analyze their findings to report on the...
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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Lesson Plans: Temperature Changes in Dissolving

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Media-rich lesson in which students discover that it takes energy to break bonds, and that energy is released when bonds are formed during the process of dissolving. They also determine whether dissolving is either exothermic or...
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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Molecules in Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students observe, on a molecular level, how heating and cooling affect molecular motion.
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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Lesson Plans: Why Does Water Dissolve Sugar?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson plan in which students design an experiment to determine if different types of liquids affect the amount of dissolution of an M&M candy shell.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Changing the Freezing Point of Water With Salt

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan teaches first grade students basic chemistry and physics principles--that saltwater freezes at a lower temperature that plain water.
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Science Lesson Plans

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Great lesson plans covering a wide-range of science-related subjects. A wonderful resource for wonderful teachers!
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Bubbling Blobs

For Teachers K - 1st
In this chemistry lab, young scholars investigate how oil and water don't mix. They will work on their observation skills and their ability to follow directions to ensure they get the correct results. Students can then develop a new,...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Classifying Chemical and Physical Changes in Various Materials/substances

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this classroom lab, students will investigate the characteristics of a chemical change. Students will also provide a definition of what constitutes a physical change through observation of several examples. Students will use/create...
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Chem Tutor

Chem Tutor: Chemistry: Compounds

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on chemical compounds including Ionic and Covalent Bonds, Valences, Lewis Structures, Binary Covalent Compounds, Radicals or Polyatomic Ions, and much more. It also includes a compound worksheet in which the students...
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University of Arizona

University of Arizona: Problemas De Acidos Y Bases

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn about the solvent properties of water, pH, pKa and buffering capacity with a series of problems. The correct answers for the multiple choices problems are reinforced with a brief explanation and the incorrect answers are linked to...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

For Teachers 7th - 9th
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is an interesting and somewhat publicized environmental problem. A swirling soup of trash up to 10 meters deep and just below the water surface is composed mainly of non-degradable plastics. These...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Precipitation: Snow

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this chemistry field/class based activity, students investigate snow and, more specifically, why snowflakes have six sides. Students will individually fossilize a snowflake and observe similarities and differences with other members...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Does It All Add Up?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this chemistry classroom lab activity, students use critical thinking to investigate the molecular properties of different liquids: rubbing alcohol and water.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Solutions: Solubility and Miscibility

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this activity, learners will test the solubility and miscibility of various substances in water, and explain the chemistry involved. They will also be given a solid and a liquid and asked to predict what will happen when each is...

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