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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Eye Dropper Rockets

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners balance and identify the types of chemical reactions, and then using the reaction knowledge, they make eye dropper rockets to shoot across the lab room with the ultimate goal of making it go the farthest.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Factors Influencing Rates of Chemical Reactions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lab investigates the factors that influence rates of reactions. Learners will develop a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, collect data, then draw a conclusion based on the data.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Chemical Reactions: Was the Blood at the Scene the "Real Mc Coy"?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The activity listed below comes well into the middle of a unit study. Upon studying a "crime scene" and the evidence provided, the young scholars are to take notes, study photos or drawings, look at suspect alibis and statements and then...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Atoms and Molecules

For Teachers 9th - 10th
As part of the introduction to the Periodic Table of the Elements, students will be introduced to the idea of atoms, molecules, and chemical reactions.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Combustion/pollution

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Through observation students will come to a better understanding of what is required for combustion to occur, and the byproducts that are created by burning various fuels.
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Handout
Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Energetics of Chemical Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Energetics of chemical change is a section of a larger overview on Chemistry, which covers a variety of aspects. This section focuses on energetics and equilibrium, and chemical energetics. Examples, formulas, and pictures are provided.
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Handout
Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Chemical Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
With an overview of topics related to chemical energetics, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and molecules as energy carriers and converters. Topics covered include how molecules take up thermal energy,...
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Activity
Purdue University

Chem Ed: Chemical Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
Because atoms are neither created nor destroyed in a chemical reaction, the total mass of products in a reaction must be the same as the total mass of the reactants.
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eBook
Upper Canada District School Board

Tom Stretton's Advanced Placement Chemistry: Electrochemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
This online textbook chapter provides learners with advanced-level material on electrochemistry.
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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Chemical Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will be able to describe what happens in a chemical reaction, and identify types of chemical reactions.
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Other

Chemistryland: Types of Chemical Reactions Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Seven problem online chemistry quiz that tests understanding of the five categories of chemical reactions.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Science Alive: What Is Synthesis?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson describes chemical synthesis in terms of building or breaking down molecules and discusses the value of chemical synthesis. Students will have a chance to play an interactive game that is analogous to the process of chemical...
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Lesson Plan
Other

Science Alive: Chemical Reactions and How You Know When You've Made Something

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students carry out a chemical reaction in which two reactants (baking soda and hydrochloric acid) produce three products (sodium chloride, carbon dioxide gas, and water) and determine that the solid product (sodium...
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Activity
Other

Science Alive: Changing the Starch in "Yams" to Sugar

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lab activity provides students with the experience of using their own enzymes to convert starch to sugar (a disaccharide called maltose), then testing to see if the conversion has taken place.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Types of Chemical Reactions and Predicting Products

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The guided inquiry activity enables students to identify the five basic types of reactions - synthesis or composition, decomposition, combustion, single replacement and double replacement. Students will also begin to predict the products...
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State University of New York

State University of New York: Hess's Law

For Students 9th - 10th
Because reactions can be considered "additive," a series of reactions can be written like simultaneous mathematical equations and a net reaction determined by addition. To use this simulation, select individual reactions from the three...
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Unit Plan
State University of New York

State University of New York: Acid Base Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
This simulation shows the exact 25 different acid-base pairs and examines how to the extent which they react relates to the strength of the acid and of the base.
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Website
Virginia Tech

Types of Equations

For Students 9th - 10th
After learning about and reviewing the types of chemical equations and rules for balancing, students can practice balancing equations on interactive quizzes.
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Collision Theory of Chemical Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch an animation of atoms and molecules colliding that shows how these particles combine during chemical reactions. Change levels of energy to see how reactions are affected.
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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: How Chemical Reactions Happen

For Students 9th - 10th
View this collection of simulations to gain a better understanding of how chemical reactions happen.
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Handout
Clackamas Community College

Clackamas Community College: Distinction Between Chemical and Physical Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the difference between chemical and physical changes.
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Handout
Clackamas Community College

Clackamas Community College: Single Replacement Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
A very useful site that includes examples of replacement reactions as well as exercises for practicing balancing replacement reactions.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Chemical Reactions: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will present a basic understanding of the periodic chart of elements and how to predict chemical reactions based on given information. It is 4 of 9 in the series titled "Chemical Reactions."
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Lesson Plan
National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Serc: Mentos and Soda Eruptions: Lessons on Explosive Volcanic Eruptions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will learn about volcanic eruptions, the scientific method, gas saturation, and bubble nucleation by participating in a popular experiment with Mentos candies and soda.