Classroom Resources: Chemistry Basics
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Periodic Table, History, Radioactive Isotopes, Alpha/Beta/Gamma Decay | Elementary School, Middle School, High School
Video: Helium Video
In this video, Sam Kean tells stories about helium.
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Periodic Table, History, Identifying an Unknown | Elementary School, Middle School, High School
Video: Arsenic Video
In this video, Sam Kean tells stories about arsenic, a deadly element that was once referred to as the "Inheritance Powder".
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Periodic Table, History, Physical Change | Elementary School, Middle School, High School
Video: Gold Video
In this video, Sam Kean tells stories about gold.
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Conservation of Mass, History, Observations, Measurements, SI Units | Elementary School, Middle School, High School
Video: Antoine Lavoisier Video
This video tells the story of Antoine Lavoisier who many consider to be the father or modern chemistry. Lavoisier discovered oxygen and hydrogen and first proposed the Law of Conservation of Mass.
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History, Physical Properties, Observations, Model of the Atom | Elementary School, Middle School, High School
Video: Ancient Chemistry Video
This video traces the history of chemistry from the discovery of fire, through the various metal ages, and finally to the great philosophers.
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Mole Concept, Measurements, History, Ideal Gas, Gas Laws | High School
Video: Amedeo Avogadro Video
This video tells the story of Amedeo Avogadro, the scientist given credit for the mole concept, but who discovered other things in chemistry too.
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Acid & Base Theories, Strong vs Weak, History | Middle School, High School
Video: Acid & Base Guys Video
This video tells the story of how the definition of acids and bases has evolved from Lavoisier, to Arrhenius, Bronsted-Lowry, and Lewis.
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Combustion, Chemical Change | High School
Demonstration: Liquid and Gas Burning Comparison
In this demo, students will witness the burning of a substance in its gas and in its liquid states. They will carry out the demonstrations themselves, and compare the results of the two reactions.
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Periodic Table, Elements, Introduction, History, Atoms, Electrons, Subatomic Particles | Middle School, High School, Elementary School
Activity: Writing Your Name using Chemical Element Symbols
In this activity, students will use their creativity to spell their name (first or middle name and their last name) using chemical symbols of elements on the periodic table. For example, you can spell Yvonne using the symbols for yttrium (Y), vanadium (V), oxygen (O), nitrogen (N), and neon (Ne).
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Introduction, Interdisciplinary, Scientific Method | High School
Activity: Write the Methods Section
In this activity, students will learn how to write and think like a scientist when they complete their lab write ups.
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Limiting Reactant, Balancing Equations, Stoichiometry, Observations | High School
Lesson Plan: Limiting Reactant
This lesson is intended to be used as an introduction to the concept of limiting reactants.
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Lab Safety | High School, Elementary School, Middle School
Activity: What Not to do in the Chemistry Lab
In this activity, students will examine a cartoon of a chaotic chemistry laboratory and note the specific behaviors that are dangerous and unsafe in a chemistry laboratory setting. This activity provides an opportunity for teachers to introduce laboratory safety and best laboratory practices and discuss them with their students.
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Introduction, History, Periodic Table, Elements, Observations, Physical Properties, Chemical Properties | High School
Lesson Plan: What is Chemistry?
In this lesson, students watch a video narrated by Bill Nye, and then complete a SOMA cube to enhance their perspective in the process of discovery.
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Combustion, Limiting Reactant, Catalysts, Gas Laws, Stoichiometry, Activation Energy, Enthalpy, Energy Diagrams, Experimental design | High School
Lab: Launching Rockets
In this lab, students create a stoichiometric mixture of hydrogen and oxygen gases to launch a soda bottle rocket.
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Conservation of Mass, Balancing Equations, Limiting Reactant, Introduction, Conservation of Mass | Middle School, High School
Activity: Kinesthetic Reactions
In this lesson students, through their physical movement, will model the law of conservation of mass during a chemical reaction. Students will also explore the concepts of limiting and excess reactants as well as balancing a chemical equation. Through this activity they also develop a means of representing particles at the molecular level.
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Culminating Project | High School
Activity: Video Project
In this activity, students will solve a multistep problem in a video so others can learn how to solve it.
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Periodic Table | High School
Activity: Trends of the Periodic Table
In this activity, students will assemble a fictitious periodic table based on clues about the structure of the real periodic table.
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Polyatomic Ions, Review, Ions | High School
Activity: Trade Ions
In this activity, students will learn common ions by creating notecards and quizzing each other.
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Introduction, Culminating Project | High School
Activity: Toy Project
In this project, students will develop a toy or elementary school project into an inquiry demonstration suitable for a high school chemistry class.
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Elements, Model of the Atom, History, Introduction, Matter, Observations, Periodic Table, Culminating Project, Atoms | Middle School, High School
Activity: Is a Picture Worth 1000 Words?
In this activity, students will learn about early chemistry discoveries through a textbook reading as well as from a cartoon.
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History, Interdisciplinary, Physical Properties, Chemical Properties, Observations, Mixtures | Middle School, High School
Lab: Top Secret
In this lab, students will learn about the history of invisible ink and will have the opportunity to compare two types of homemade invisible ink recipes.
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Net Ionic Equation, Chemical Change, Solubility Rules, Solubility, Precipitate, Balancing Equations, Chemical Change | High School
Lab: Ions in Aqueous Solution Presentation
In this lab, students will mix ionic solutions to determine what combinations form precipitates.
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Naming Compounds, Observations | High School
Activity: Ionic Compound Identification
In this activity, students will practice naming and writing formulas of ionic compounds by looking at examples.
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Density, Measurements | High School
Lab: Investigating the Density of an Irregular Solid Object
In this lab, students will use common laboratory equipment to devise a method to measure the density of several irregular objects. They will then create a formal laboratory report using both their own data and data from the entire class.
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History, Chemical Change | High School, Middle School
Activity: Tie Dye
In this activity, students make tie-dye shirts and complete a worksheet about a reading from ChemMatters about how dyes work. It gives students the opportunity to apply chemistry to everyday life.