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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Frogguts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Pupils comprehend the basic anatomy of the frog and prepare themselves for dissection. They work through the virtual dissection. Students complete the worksheet and begin to assemble the frog skeleton. They are assigned frog...
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Changes in the Environment

For Students 3rd - 5th
An activity to help students understand that as the environment changes, plants and animals must evolve to stay alive. Students watch as a mystery plants grow in a changing environment to see if they will evolve or go extinct.
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Confliction Selection Pressures

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate how selection pressures and natural selection influence populations growth with this computer model. Understand how a population changes when selection pressures are in conflict. Perform the virtual lab to see what happens to...
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Activity
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Camping Problem

For Students 9th - 10th
Measure the enthalpy of a reaction and then create a solution warm enough to cook food.
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Unit Plan
Carnegie Mellon University

Chem Collective: Acid Mine Drainage

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the chemistry behind the causes and effects of acid mine drainage on a modeled river. In this activity, students examine the chemistry of acidic mine runoff and its effects on river water.
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Unit Plan
Carnegie Mellon University

Chem Collective: Arsenic in Drinking Water

For Students 9th - 10th
Set in the context of ground water contamination in Bangladesh, this stoichiometry and analytical chemistry activity examines the issues around identifying wells contaminated with arsenic.
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Unit Plan
Carnegie Mellon University

Chem Collective: Dna Binding Dyes Scenario

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity explores the equilibrium of dyes that self-assemble into DNA templates. Students use knowledge of equilibrium and quantitative spectroscopy to explore different dyes that bind selectively to DNA molecules. In this activity,...
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Unit Plan
Carnegie Mellon University

Chem Collective: Meals Ready to Eat

For Students 9th - 10th
While camping on the Appalachian Trail, a storm dampens all the fire wood and you must design a chemical reaction to heat your meal. In this activity, students design an experiment in the virtual lab to determine the heat of reaction for...
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Interactive
Carnegie Mellon University

Chem Collective: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Food Dyes

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive tutorial to determine the amount of dyes present in a powdered beverage in order to examine the allegation that the manufacturer is exceeding the allowable amount of the artificial food dyes in the drinks it produces.he...
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Activity
PBS

Pbs: On Fire

For Students 9th - 10th
A virtual lab exploring the topic of combustion. Students will work through the equation of combustion by looking at the molecules involved. Students will also complete a flame experiment,
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Interactive
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Metals Density Problem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use the virtual lab to identify three unknown metals by measuring their density and comparing their measurements to the densities of known metals. In this randomized version, each student designs and performs...
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Activity
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Determining Reactants and Products in a Solution of Dna

For Students 9th - 10th
In this limiting reagents problem, students are given specific concentrations of DNA solutions and are asked to predict what products and reactants will remain after a specific volumes are mixed and reaction has occurred.
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Activity
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Determine the Concentration of Unknown Silver Nitrate Solution

For Students 9th - 10th
In this limiting reagents problem, students are asked to determine the amount of silver nitrate dissolved in a solution by performing a reaction with solid NaCl. In this randomized activity, each student is given a different unknown...
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Activity
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Determining Stoichiometric Coefficients

For Students 9th - 10th
Students use the virtual lab to determine how four unknown substances react with each other including their stoichiometric coefficients. In this randomized activity, each student receives a different reaction and students can check their...
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Activity
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Coffee Problem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use knowledge of specific heat capacity to mix together hot coffee and cold milk to create a solution of coffee at a desired temperature. In this randomized problem, each student is given a different final...
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Activity
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Hot/cold Pack Problem: Part 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Determine the heat of solution for various salts.
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Activity
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Unknown Weak Acid Problem

For Students 9th - 10th
Perform an experiment to determine the pKa and concentration of an unknown acid.
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Activity
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Unknown Weak Acid Problem Bonus

For Students 9th - 10th
Perform an experiment to determine the concentrations of a mixture of two acids.
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Activity
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Solubility and the Common Ion Effect

For Students 9th - 10th
Determine the concentration of an unknown NaCl solution using the common ion effect.
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Interactive
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Metal Ligand Binding

For Students 9th - 10th
Use silver chloride to determine the binding constant for a metal ligand complex.
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Activity
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Determine the Concentration of the Unknown Strong Acid

For Students 9th - 10th
Perform a titration using an indicator to determine the concentration of an HCl solution.
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Activity
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Designing a Buffer Solution With a Specific P H

For Students 9th - 10th
Create a buffer solution at a specific pH using a weak acid and its conjugate base.
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Activity
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Determining the Concentration of an Unknown Solution

For Students 9th - 10th
Using the Virtual Laboratory design, students perform an experiment to determine the concentration of the unknown HCl solution to four significant figures.
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Activity
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Determining Reagent Concentrations

For Students 9th - 10th
Using the Virtual Laboratory, design an experiment to quickly determine which of the two reagents, HCl or NaOH, is 10 times more concentrated than the other.