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Balancing Equations Online

For Students 9th - 11th
In this balancing equations worksheet, students use an on line source to answer questions about balanced equations and they write balanced equations for various types of reactions. They balance equations using an on line game that allows...
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The Speed of Chemistry

For Students 9th - 12th
In this rates of chemical reactions learning exercise, students read about the various factors that influence the rate of chemical reactions such as surface area, concentration, temperature and catalysts. Students answer eight questions...
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The Solar System

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate Newton's law of Motion.  In this chemical reaction lesson plan, 3rd graders participate in an experiment with rockets to study Newton's law. Students observe the effects of a chemical reaction made by...
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Experiment on Measuring Reaction Rates

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the rate of a chemical reaction. In this rate of reactions lesson plan, students use an electronic balance to measure the change in mass of a chemical reaction between hydrochloric acid and calcium carbonate. They...
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Chapter 17 Worksheet- Equilibrium

For Students 10th - 12th
In this equilibrium worksheet, students answer eleven questions about chemical reactions, equilibrium concentrations and endothermic and exothermic reactions. They write equilibrium expressions for chemical reactions and they explain...
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Bog Science

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study bogs. They tour, collect physical, chemical, and biological data and analyze a pristine bog community. Using the data, they draw a map and a cross section of the bog.
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The Effects of Alcohol and other Teratogens: A model using Zebrafish

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate the interference of various drugs on an embryo through experimentation. This is an open-ended lab to allow students to see effects of various chemicals humans choose to put in their bodies and create...
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Make a Battery From a Lemon

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders construct a voltaic battery. They change chemical energy into electrical energy by inserting copper wire into a lemon. They discover the tingle of the wire on their tongue is due to the movement of electrons.
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Potato Power

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students light a LED clock or light bulb using potatoes. They examine how a battery works in a simple circuit. They determine how chemical energy changes to electrical energy while experimenting with potato powered circuits.
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Oobleck, Goop, and Glurch

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use teacher prepared samples of substances. They perform the same observations and complete charts for each substance. After recording and analyzing their results, 6th graders make changes in the recipes to create a better...
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Oxidation/Reduction Reactions

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this chemical reactions worksheet, students review the oxidation number rules and then assign oxidation numbers to atoms in given compounds. Students identify the reducing agent and the oxidizing agent in reactions. Students practice...
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Environmental Health Hazards and Children

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners are introduced to the environmental hazards their community is facing. In groups, they develop a list of the ways humans have changed the Earth and how these changes have lead to environmental hazards. They record their...
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Indicator Sponge A Discrepant Event Demonstration

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the use of acid and base pH indicators. The teacher saturates an indicator sponge with congo red solution. Afterwards, the sponge is placed in a blue base solution. Students observe that the blue sponge actually turns...
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You've Been Weathered!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This weathering lesson reviews the two types of weathering, chemical and mechanical. Included is a game that assesses if young scholars know examples of chemical and mechanical weathering and how they each affect the earth's surface....
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Water the Universal Solvent

For Students 9th - 12th
In this water and solvent activity, students answer 20 questions about solutes, solvents, polarity in molecules, and the characteristics of water as a solvent. Students answer 3 questions about the lab they completed using temperature to...
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AP Chemistry-Thermochemistry

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this thermochemistry activity, students answer twenty multiple choice questions about heat, enthalpy changes, thermal, mechanical and electrical energy and the laws of thermodynamics.
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The Sun Affects Earth

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read, write, and listen to information about the sun and its effects on the Earth.as it relates to its axis, orbit, rotate, and revolution.  In this solar system lesson plan, 3rd graders examine how the sun...
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Spiffing Up Text

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Young scholars change the size and color of specific portions of text in a web page. They create superscripts and subscripts for text in a web page. They specify the font for portions of text on a web page.
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The Seasons

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Discover the change of the seasons by modeling the Earth-Sun system. Learners model the orbit of the Earth around the sun and explore how and why the patterns of winter and summer occur.
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Food Color Chemistry

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Learners investigate plant pigments in fruits and vegetables. In this plant pigments lesson plan, students observe the effects of pH changes on chlorophyll in one demonstration and they observe the effects pH changes on flavonoids in...
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Ideal Gas Law

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this gas law worksheet, learners review the Idea Gas Law equation and practice applying the equation to chemical reactions. Students write the balanced reaction, determine the limiting reagent, moles produced, and volume of gas...
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Thermodynamics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate energy involved for bonds to form and break. In this thermodynamics lesson plan, students experiment with chemical reactions to observe endothermic and exothermic reactions, they explore entropy and the effects of...
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Squirrel Islands

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this adaptations worksheet, students read about 3 species that have changed over time to adapt to their environment. Students design a squirrel that has adapted to an island habitat that students are assigned. They describe the...
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How Do Car Engines Work?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students perform an experiment which simulates what happens inside an internal combustion engine. They explain how the chemical reaction they witnessed is similar to what happens inside the car engine.

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