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Curated OER

The Copper Basin Problem

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students view a video about how human actions impact the environment. They design a set of experiments to address some of the problems and issues raised by the video.
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Lesson Plan
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Can You Copperplate?

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Introduce emerging engineers to the process of metal plating. This resource provides background reading on chemical engineering, plating, and corrosion. It concludes with a copper plating activity. The standards alignment list includes...
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North Carolina Consortium for Middle East Studies

Voices from the Trans‐Atlantic Slave Trade

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
Young historians trace the roots of African slavery and learn about the causes and effects of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade through a PowerPoint presentation and by reading and discussing excerpts from the book Copper Sun.
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Curated OER

Electricity And Magnetism

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore the relationship between magnetism and electricity byby explaining how the model motor operates. They observe the the spinning of a coil of copper wire that is part of a circuit.
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Curated OER

Foil tooling - Oriental Art

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students view examples of copper tooling. They create a sketch the size of their copper. Students tape the top and bottom of the sketch to their copper and place a stack of newspaper under the copper. They trace all lines of their sketch...
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Curated OER

Cents-ible Chemistry-Analysis of the Metal in a Penny

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students determine the base metals and surface metals in a penny. For this analysis of metals lesson plan, students determine the density of five pennies minted in different years. They use different chemicals such as hydrochloric acid,...
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American Physiological Society

Why is Kettle Corn Cooked in Copper Pots?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
The kitchen — it's not just for eating anymore! Specific heat is often a difficult concept to grasp, so give it context by relating it to cooking. Learners gain experience in the principles of thermal energy transfer by designing an...
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Curated OER

Citrus Batteries

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create models of voltaic cells using lemons. They place both a copper strip and a zinc strip into a lemon about a half inch apart and touch both leads at the same time to their tongue. After recording their observations,...
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Curated OER

Polishing Pennies

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students polish pennies. In this Science lesson, students experiment with cleaning the oxidation off of pennies with a variety of liquids. Students record their observations.
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Curated OER

Stoichiometry (gases and masses)

For Teachers 10th - 11th
In this chemistry worksheet, students identify how many liters of oxygen can be consumed to form carbon dioxide. Then they identify how many liters of sulfur dioxide are produced if the gas is at STP.
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Curated OER

Acids, Copper, and Zinc

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers observe chemical reactions using post-1982 pennies. They observe the reaction of an acid with zinc but not copper under the same conditions over a two week period.
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Curated OER

Carving Stone with Copper

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explain the properties of copper as a material for making tools and explain the properties of different chisel points. They gain practice taking notes on qualitative and quantitative data.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Carrie Copper

For Students K - 2nd
In this Carrie Copper body parts worksheet, students find words for parts of the body. In this word search worksheet, students find ten words.
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Lab Resource
Pingry School

The Alchemist's Dream – Copper into "Gold"

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Many scientists attempted alchemy for hundreds of years before a full understanding of metals became clear. Scholars take a penny and, through two different chemical reactions, make it appear to turn into silver and later gold. They...
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Bonneville

Copper Oxide Cell Data Sharing

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Sharing is caring—and good for learning, too. Learners share data from the experiment in the previous lesson by engaging in a gallery walk. They then consider and discuss the conditions under which a solar cell will have its maximum...
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Curated OER

REDOX Lab

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students produce copper metal by electrolysis. In this REDOX lesson plan, students use a copper (II) chloride solution and a 9 volt battery to produce copper metal through an electrolysis reaction. Students make observations and take...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Displacement Reactions

For Students 9th - 12th
Five metal samples are tested for their reactivity with different solutions. From the results they discover the order of reactivity for copper, iron, lead, magnesium, and zinc. Have your aspiring chemists perform this laborabory exercise...
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Curated OER

Relating Moles to Coefficients of a Chemical Equation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars investigate the coefficients in a chemical equation and their relation to moles. In this moles and coefficients lesson plan, students perform a single replacement reaction of copper (II) sulfate and zinc and find the ratio...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Displacement Reactions of Metals

For Students 9th - 12th
Chemistry stars experiment with metals to observe reactivity with salt solutions. They test magnesium, zinc, iron, and copper by immersing them into different solutions and observing for changes. A separate set of data tables is...
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Cornell University

Electroplating

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Silver pennies and copper nickels are made possible by applying some chemistry. Learners use electrolysis to coat a penny with zinc sulfate and a nickel with copper sulfate. Their investigation builds an understanding of electroplating...
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Consumers Energy

Conductors and Insulators

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Why did the orchestra director use a copper baton? She heard it makes a great conductor. Scholars select six items to test in a circuit to determine if each is a conductor or an insulator. Clear instructions for using electricity allow...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Laboratory: Fe and Cu (II) Redox Reaction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
For this redox reaction laboratory sheet, chemists answer eight post-lab questions about oxidizing agents, reducing agents, oxidized and reduced substances, and percent yield of products. You will need to provide a proedure for...
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Handout
PBS

The Elements

For Teachers 5th - 12th
An attractive handout displays the periodic table of elements in full color. Each group has its own color, and each element is represented by its name, chemical symbol, atomic number, and atomic weight. What makes this periodic table...
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Activity
Exploratorium

Magnetic Pendulums

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Passing a copper wire coil through a magnetic field influences another coil to also sway. It is with this demonstration that you can teach your physical science fans about electromagnetism. Note that the assembly requires about an hour,...

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