Classroom Resources: Chemistry Basics

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  Introduction, Lab Safety, Chemical Properties, Physical Properties, Chemical Change, Physical Change, History, Separating Mixtures, Measurements, SI Units, Significant Figures | High School

  Lesson Plan: Chemistry Basics Unit Plan

  The AACT High School Classroom Resource library and multimedia collection has everything you need to put together a unit plan for your classroom: lessons, activities, labs, projects, videos, simulations, and animations. We searched through our resource library and constructed a unit plan for introducing the basic chemistry concepts to students: Laboratory Safety, Equipment, and Reports, Periodic Table Basics, Physical and Chemical Properties and Changes, Endothermic and Exothermic Changes, and Classification of Matter. These topics are very important for your students to master before they dig into other chemistry concepts. This unit is designed to be used at beginning of the school year.

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  Distillation, Physical Change, Separating Mixtures, Phase Changes | Middle School

  Activity: Distillation in Survival Mode

  In this activity, students will investigate methods for purifying water as they consider a survival based situation that requires clean drinking water. Students will investigate processes such as boiling and distillation, as well as review the phase changes within the water cycle.

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  Separating Mixtures, Physical Properties, Mixtures, Solute & Solvent | Elementary School, Middle School

  Lab: What Does Ironman Eat for Breakfast?

  In this lab students will compare and contrast mixtures and solutions. They will be tasked with extracting iron from various breakfast cereals. They will then conclude which cereal would be the healthiest for Iron Man to eat for breakfast.

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  Mixtures, Molecular Structure, Separating Mixtures, Solute & Solvent | High School

  Lesson Plan: What Type of Mixture is Paint?

  In this lesson students will use simple laboratory tests to characterize differences between solutions, colloids, and suspensions. They will then apply those tests to paints to classify them as specific types of mixtures.

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  Separating Mixtures, Observations, Physical Properties, Conservation of Matter | Elementary School

  Activity: How is Chemistry Used in Your Everyday Life?

  In this lesson the students will become familiar with some ways that chemistry is present in their everyday lives. The teacher will read a book and show a short video about how a plastic bottle is made. Following these activities, students will interact with a variety of materials made of plastic, ultimately organizing them according to the recycling code printed on the bottom of each or by physical properties. Finally students will collect data and have an opportunity to construct a graph based on their data.

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  Separating Mixtures, Observations | Elementary School

  Lab: Settle that Soil

  In this lab, students will learn about what properties constitute soil and how it is different than “dirt.” Students will also be able to distinguish the difference between sand, silt, and clay.

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  Separating Mixtures, Physical Properties, Observations, Matter, Mixture, Introduction | Elementary School

  Activity: Sandbox

  In this activity the students will separate a mixture and classify objects by their physical properties.

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  Physical Properties, Density, Separating Mixtures, Matter, Culminating Project, Interdisciplinary, Phase Changes | Elementary School, Middle School

  Activity: The Castaway!

  In this activity, students use their knowledge of the properties of matter to create and/or design items needed for survival on a deserted island.

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  Chemical Change, Exothermic & Endothermic, Chemical Change, Physical Change, Separating Mixtures | Elementary School

  Lab: Super Suds

  In this lab, students will investigate an endothermic chemical reaction by combining baking soda, hand soap and citric acid. The students will be tasked with differentiating between chemical and physical changes during this experiment.

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  Separating Mixtures, Separating Mixtures | Elementary School

  Lab: Investigating Black Ink

  In this lab, students will discover that black ink is a mixture composed of a several different pigments through a chromatography investigation.

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  Chemical Change, Physical Change, Separating Mixtures, Observations, Mixture | High School

  Lab: Test Tube Separation

  In this lab, students will mix four substances in a test tube and recreate the original four layers through chemical and physical means.

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  Observations, Separating Mixtures, Mixtures, Interdisciplinary, Physical Properties, Scientific Method | High School, Middle School

  Activity: How Do We Clean Up An Oil Spill

  In this activity, students simulate an oil spill and test different materials’ ability to “clean” the oil spill.

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  Mixtures, Separating Mixtures, Solubility, Physical Change, Phase Changes | Middle School

  Lab: A Solution to Your Mix-up

  In this lab, students will perform a step by step process of mixing and separating substances based on their states and solubility in order to solve a problem.

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  Separating Mixtures, Physical Change | High School, Middle School

  Lab: Separation of a Mixture

  In this lab, students devise their own method to separate a mixture of sand, salt, poppy seeds, and iron filings.

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  Physical Change, Distillation, Separating Mixtures, Mixtures, Conservation of Matter, Boiling Point, Phase Changes | High School

  Lab: Distillation of Common Soft Drinks

  In this lab, students will see the distillation procedure using a common soft drink and a simple equipment setup.

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  Separating Mixtures, Observations, Physical Change | High School

  Lab: Distillation

  In this lab, students complete a simple distillation lab separating water from cinnamon and food coloring.

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  Separating Mixtures, Density, Physical Change, Chemical Change, Mixtures, Intermolecular Forces, Intermolecular Forces | Middle School

  Lab: Clean it Up!

  In this lab, students will consider and utilize various separation techniques to purify and reclaim used motor oil.

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  Separating Mixtures, Interdisciplinary, Separating Mixtures, Electromagnetic Spectrum, Mixture | Middle School

  Lab: Candy and Leaf Chromatography

  In this lab, students will learn that mixtures are created by the combination of two or more substances. Many colors are actually mixtures of several different pigments. Mixtures can be separated, and in this lab students will perform chromatography to separate mixtures found in candy and in leaves.

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  Mixtures, Physical Change, Physical Change, Solute & Solvent, Phase Changes, Distillation, Introduction, Mixture, Separating Mixtures, Interdisciplinary, Mixture | Elementary School

  Lesson Plan: Now I Can Drink the Water!

  In this lesson, students review important concepts of the water cycle and then design, test, and evaluate a working model of a desalination plant (a distiller).

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  Separating Mixtures, Percent Composition | Middle School

  Lab: Metallic Breakfast

  In this lab, students will separate iron filings from iron-fortified breakfast cereals. Students will use the recorded data to conduct percent composition calculations.