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Chemistry Collective

Virtual Lab: Camping Problem III

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
So, you've headed out into the wilderness and forgotten your camp stove? What's a chemist to do? Solutions may be the solution! Scholars use a virtual lab workbench to create solutions that would be capable of heating food, courtesy of a...
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Chemistry Collective

Virtual Lab: Measuring the Heat Capacity of an Engine Coolant

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Combine automotive science with chemistry! Young scholars investigate an alternative to the traditional engine coolant. They mix the chemicals virtually and collect data to determine the specific heat capacity. 
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Chemistry Collective

Virtual Lab: Determining the Heat of Reaction in Aqueous Solution

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
It's gettin' hot in here! An investigative activity has learners measure the heat of reaction in a virtual setting. After exploring the reaction, they attempt to create a solution at an exact temperature.
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Chemistry Collective

Virtual Lab: Coffee Problem

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Would you like milk with that? Young scientists consider thermal energy transfer to create the perfect cup of coffee. They calculate the amount of milk needed to reach a specified temperature and then test their calculations using a...
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Chemistry Collective

Chemical Potential: Staircase Demonstration

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
It's all uphill from here! Scholars examine the pattern of random particle motion up a staircase. The simulation shows how the linear increase in energy corresponds to an exponential decrease in particle concentration.
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Chemistry Collective

Virtual Lab: Camping Problem I

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Hiking chemists have an advantage! Young scholars use a virtual lab to conduct an experiment to create an exothermic reaction. The goal is to create enough heat to warm a meal during a hike in the rain.
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Chemistry Collective

Virtual Lab: Camping Problem II

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
What happens to the enthalpy of a reaction as the concentration of reactants varies? Learners explore this question with a virtual lab activity. They consider five different solutions of the same reactants and monitor the temperature...
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Lesson Plan
Kenan Fellows

How Much Energy Is That Anyway?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The fifth instructional activity in the six part series introduces units of energy including calories, Calories, and joules. Scholars determine the energy released when eating a snack and during activity.
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Kenan Fellows

How Much Heat Can a Phase Change Produce?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Scholars learn about heat release in phase changes. They perform calculations as they compare and contrast a science fiction passage and a home heating application.
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Activity
American Chemical Society

Exploring Energy

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
When asked to list everyday objects that require energy, most people list technology that use batteries or electricity. Through hands-on exploration, young scientists discover energy is much more than just circuitry. They play with...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Thermochemistry Calculations

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this chemistry learning exercise, students apply reaction equation ratios to solve fifteen problems, including five using a specific formula provided on the learning exercise.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Energy from Hydrocarbons

For Students 9th - 12th
In this energy from hydrocarbons worksheet, students read about endothermic and exothermic reactions and how hydrocarbons release heat as fuels. Students read how to measure heat changes in reactions and practice finding the specific...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Transfer of Energy 2: Electrochemistry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study about electrochemistry by increasing their understanding of electron transfer and its role in chemical changes. They explain that energy appears in different forms. Heat energy is in the disorderly motion of molecules.
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Activity
American Chemical Society

Electrolysis of Water

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Young scientists know that water is H2O, but can they prove it? Through a simple electrolysis of water demonstration, scholars see the two gases produced as a result of a chemical reaction. Because this reaction doesn't happen...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Transfer of Energy 3: Rust and Corrosion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research the type of chemical reaction that occurs when metal rusts. They conduct an experiment looking at the rate of corrosion in steel wool. This is lesson three in a three lesson unit on the transfer of energy.
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Curated OER

Heat and Thermodynamics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
This is actually a 10-day mini unit on thermal energy for your high school chemists. Every avenue is taken to get learners absorbed in heat: a pretest, a PowerPoint presentation, Internet exploration, demonstrations, lab activities, and...
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Science Geek

Bulk Properties of Water

For Students 9th - 12th
Learn the ins and outs of the properties of water through an engaging slide show. The lesson presents different facts about water including phase change, heat of fusion, heat of vaporization, and specific heat among others. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Practice Test Chapter 12: Energy Changes in Chemical Reactions

For Teachers 10th - 12th
In this chemistry practice test worksheet, students review their knowledge of energy changes in chemical reactions as they answer 17 multiple choice and short answer questions.
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Curated OER

The Physical Setting

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders examine chemical reactions.  In this chemistry lesson students choose an investigation that they wish to perform based on their interest.

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