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Relating Moles to Coefficients of a Chemical Equation
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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Reaction Kinetics
Show your classes the science behind rates of reactions with a presentation that explains factors that affect the rate, activation energies, exothermic and endothermic processes, and the proportionality of the product and reactant rates.
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Recognizing and Describing Chemical Changes
Seventh graders distinguish between physical and chemical changes in both natural and technological settings. They identify the reactants and products for a given chemical reaction. they then write simple chemical equations given the...
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Decomposition vs. Synthesis Reaction
Young scholars define the term chemical reaction, identify the reactants and products in a chemical reaction, distinguish between decomposition and synthesis reactions and construct reactions using food items.
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Reaction rates and Equilibrium
Students listen to a lecture on the collision theory. They discuss the reactant and product changes during a chemical reaction. Students are taught the factors affecting reaction rates. They complete a lab on entropy, heat and free...
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Chemical Equilibria
In this chemical reactions learning exercise, learners determine how mixtures shift toward reactants or products to reach equilibrium. For given reactions, learners determine how concentrations will change when adding or removing gases...
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To Have Or Not To Have Oxygen (Part I - Fermentation)
Students explore the fermentation process. For this biology lesson plan, students describe the process of glycolysis and infer the reactants and products of fermentation.
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WS 9.2 Equilibrium
In this equilibrium instructional activity, students fill in twenty one blanks with terms related to reactions and equilibrium. They then solve four problems given chemical reactions and determine equilibrium, moles present at...
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Classifying Chemical Reactions
In this chemical reactions worksheet, students follow a flow chart to determine what type of reaction is occurring. Students then classify reactions and balance the equations. This worksheet has 2 short answer and 10 fill in the blank.
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Chemical Change and Physical Change
Sixth graders combine chemicals to create a chemical change. In this chemicals lesson plan, 6th graders will investigate characteristics of chemical change by combining chemicals. They will learn that color change is an indicator of...
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Chemical Equations
For this chemical equations worksheet, students complete a paragraph about chemical equations by filling in 17 terms from a word list.
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Chemical Equations
In this chemical equations activity, students complete a paragraph by filling in the 17 terms associated with chemical equations.
Science 4 Inquiry
Maintaining Mass
Can you disprove the law of conservation of mass? Pupils observe the teacher weigh each part of a reaction. Then, the teacher weighs the result of the reaction and everyone sees that the products do not equal the reactants. Then they...
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The Effects of Photosynthesis on Plant Growth
Students are able to draw a diagram of the light reactions and briefly describe what is occurring throughout the process. They are able to explain where each reactant/product in the photosynthesis equation comes from/goes during the...
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Rates of Chemical Reactions-The Iodine Clock Reaction
Students investigate the reaction rate of iodine and soluble starch. For this rates of chemical reactions lesson plan, students study the effects of varying concentrations of reactants and varying temperatures of reactants on the...
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WS 4.6 Types of Reactions
In this chemical reactions worksheet, students are given the reactants of equations and must complete each equation by writing the products and balancing the equation. They must also identify the type of reaction.
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Lego Atoms and Molecules: Chemical Reactions
Show young chemists what a chemical reaction looks like with two parts of a hands-on experiment. First, learners conduct a wet lab where they observe the reactants (baking soda and calcium chloride, with phenolsulfonphthalein) before,...
Beyond Benign
Exothermic and Endothermic Reactions
How can you tell the difference between endothermic and exothermic reactions? Chemistry scholars perform and observe two chemical reactions, measure the temperature throughout, then draw conclusions about changes in energy from their...
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Chemical Reactions
In this chemical reactions worksheet, learners write rate expressions, determine the order of reactants and the rate law, and calculate the rate constant from data. Students calculate the half-life for given reactions. This worksheet has...
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Can You "Gas" What's Happening?
Learners examine gas production in "soil" samples through hands on activities and class discussions, to determine if the soil samples have contain living or non-living systems.
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Law of Conservation of Mass Worksheet
In this law of conservation of mass worksheet, students solve 10 reaction problems by determining the mass of a reactant or product.
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Reaction Types and Stoichiometry
In this chemical reactions worksheet, students balance chemical reactions and identify each type of reaction. Students write the net ionic equation for reactions. Students calculate moles and grams of reactants or products. This...
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Chemical Reactions
In this reactions worksheet, students write the formula for each reactant and product and then balance the equation. Students have 23 problems to solve.
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Molarity, Excess and Percent Yield
In this molarity worksheet, learners are given balanced equations and they are to calculate the mass or volume of reactants and products. Students calculate the theoretical, percentage, and actual yield for chemical equations. This...