OH my, it's time to learn about alcohols! Introduce this important group of organic molecules to the class with a short, informative video. Students work alongside the narrator to correctly write the structures and names of primary, secondary, and tertiary alcohols. The content also includes the uses of many alcohols.

Concepts

alcohols, chemical nomenclature, organic molecules, ethanol

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• The video can be used as a day one introduction to the topic or can be assigned as homework the night before
• Partners can work together to draw the structures in the video and provide feedback to one another

Classroom Considerations

• Viewers must have a basic knowledge of hydrocarbon chains to make full use of the resource

Pros

• Animated sequences help to illustrate the placement of the OH functional group in primary, secondary, and tertiary alcohols

Cons

• Displays a portion of the characteristics of alcohols too rapidly, making them illegible without pausing the video