Using impactful visuals and chemical equations, this video describes how to balance chemical equations. It uses examples that are common to the classroom such as methane burning in a Bunsen burner. 

Concepts

balancing equations, balancing chemical equations, reactants, products

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Create additional practice problems

Classroom Considerations

• Requires prior knowledge of coefficients
• Lesson best fits as the introduction or a review for struggling students, as it only covers the easiest problems
• Video is the eighth in a series of 14

Pros

• Includes closed captioning in English, French, and Arabic
• Provides two ways to visualize the equations and walks through solving some sample problems

Cons

• None