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The Chemistry of Fire and Other Oxidation Reactions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the process of combustion.
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Forest Fires

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the benefits and problems associated with fire. They discuss the role that fire plays in maintaining healthy ecosystems. Students brainstorm ways that fire can be harmful, such as damaging homes, communities, and...
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Pumpkin Talk

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
A pumpkin and a candle are all you need to help teach your students about what keep a flame going, and what factors lead to its going out. A lot of rich discussion should result from this fun activity. A great addition to a science...
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How Cars Work

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners summarize the steps in the four stroke internal combustion engine. In this physics lesson, students act out the process while being videotaped. They simulate energy conversion using potato gun.
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Got Dirty Air?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners study air pollution and its effect on air quality. In this environmental science and engineering lesson, students watch a demonstration of incomplete combustion as it contributes to air pollution, study the importance of air,...
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Bonneville

Background Research on Alternative Transportation Vehicles

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
There's no alternative to a great research project. The second of five lessons in the Solar Transportation unit has scholars research different types of alternative vehicles. They determine the price, range, battery size, and cost to...
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5 Types of Chemical Reactions and a Lab on Mole

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Young scholars recognize the concepts of the five general types of chemical reaction: combination, decomposition, single replacement, double replacement and combustion. They practice classifying chemical equations and determine the moles...
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Oxygen

For Teachers K - 12th
Students explore oxygen and its physical and chemical propeties.  In this investigative lesson students complete several experiments using oxygen.
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Oxidation and Combustion: Chemical Reactions in Fire

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study oxidation and define vocabulary pertinent to it.  In this oxidation lesson students make predictions and create experiments
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Teach Engineering

Hydrogen-Oxygen Reaction Lab

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
High schoolers conduct an experiment using the reaction of hydrogen and oxygen. After pairs balance the chemical equation for making water, they mix different ratios of hydrogen and oxygen in a chemical reaction. Classmates...
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Forest Foundation

Fire - How Does it Relate to You?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Forest fires can be a necessary step in keeping a forest healthy, but what happens when they get out of control? Learners investigate the causes and effects of forest fires in two specific areas, culminating in a report about the ways...
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What is a Chemical Reaction?

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
When a candle burns down, what happens to the mass that appears to be shrinking? Lesson begins with a demonstration of the chemical reaction of a candle burning. Then scholars use atom models to observe conservation of mass concretely. 
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Virginia Department of Education

The Cycles of Nature

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Encourage peer collaboration and assist with the creation of visual aids to identify carbon, water, and nitrogen cycles as your class learns more about nature. They discuss relative information, create a visual aid depicting the chosen...
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K20 LEARN

Microbes and Manure = Biofuel

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Waste not, want not! Science scholars explore manure as an alternative energy source through reading and experimentation. Groups construct their own biofuel digesters and observe the process of methane production. The teacher's guide...
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Energy and Work: Transformation through Engines

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars are introduced to the concept of thermodynamics. In groups, they participate in experiments in which they discover how potential energy converts into kinetic energy. They use the internet to research the components of a...
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You Light Up My Life: Developing a Scientific Theory for What Fuels a Candle's Flame!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine how candles work and how scientific theories are developed and tested. Students propose hypotheses about what is burning in a candle then perform tests in order to develop their scientific theory. After a teacher...
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Coal Moisture Analysis

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students investigate coal samples and analyze its drying loss under controlled conditions. They establish the loss in mass of a sample when heated under controlled conditions of temperature.
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It's a Gas!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars investigate gases and their properties by completing 4 activities. In this gases lesson plan, students perform activities to show that gases take up space, they diffuse, and that odors and vibrations pass through gases....
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The Air We Breathe

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover the cuases of pollution. They investigate different pollutants that exist. Stsudents research technologies developed by engineers to reduce the amounts of air pollution. Upon completion of assigned activities,...
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Chemical Models

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students study hydrocarbon gases and chemical equations. In this hydrocarbon gases lesson plan, students work in groups complete a molecular formula worksheet and review alkane prefixes. Students complete molecular models, balance...
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For Your Eyes Only

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars identify two major types of visible pollutants, smog, and particulate matter, They explain that air pollutants are generated during incomplete combustion. They measure and rank collectors from the most pollutants to the...
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Type of Chemical Reactions: Single and double displacements

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students are taught that combustion of carbon in charcoal briquetts produces heat and light. They are shown how to find single displacement and double displacement. Students solve problem set of single and double displacement.
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Electric Car: American Industry and Innovation

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study how an electric car operates.  In this electric car lesson students assemble an electric car motor from parts from an internal combustion engine.
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Fire Wars

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Pupils explore the conditions needed for combustion to occur. They participate in activities to understand combustion. They observe the aspect of fire behavior. They discuss fire containment strategies.

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