Instructional Video

Acid + Metal

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What happened to the woman who was stopped for having sodium chloride and a nine-volt in her car? She was arrested for a salt and battery! Here's a video that explains how combining an acid with a metal produces a salt and water and utilizes many examples through chemical equations. 

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Instructional Ideas
  • Perform some of the reactions mentioned in the video
  • Create more practice problems to help cement understanding
Classroom Considerations
  • Requires prior knowledge of chemical reactions, chemical equations, and proper notation of both
  • Video is the 10th in a series of 21
Pros
  • Video works well in a flipped classroom where they watch at home and then perform the reactions in class
  • Includes the importance of universal indicators for knowing when the reaction is complete
Cons
  • None