TED-Ed
Under the Hood: The Chemistry of Cars
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines! Explore the cumbustion reactions driving the world's automobiles and the chemical solutions used to keep their engines cool with this fun instructional video.
Curated OER
Oozing Pumpkin - Sick Science! #060
Make a Halloween pumpkin foam at the mouth! Using hydrogen peroxide, toothpaste, and yeast, you can recreate this chemical reaction in your classroom. It can lead to a discussion of the way ingredients mix together to make a new...
Steve Spangler Science
Genie in a Bottle - Cool Science Experiment
An exothermic reaction is demonstrated by showing what happens when hydrogen peroxide reacts with manganese dioxide. It creates the effect used by film makers to have a genie coming out of a bottle in a burst of cloudy gas. Spangler is...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Gibbs Free Energy and Spontaneity
Introduction to Gibbs free energy. Includes information about the relationship between spontaneity and entropy, enthalpy, and temperature. [17:40]
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Experiment Video: Creating Instant Hot Ice
How does a hand warmer warm your hands? Find out with this demonstration of the exothermic reaction of water and sodium acetate in action. [2:24]
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Experiment Videos: Pharaoh's Serpent
Watch a "Pharaoh's Serpent" reaction, which occurs during the combustion of mercury thiocyanate. [0:36]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Ap Chemistry: Endothermic & Exothermic Reactions
In this video, Paul Andersen explains how heat can be absorbed in endothermic or released in exothermic reactions. An energy diagram can be used to show energy movements in these reactions and temperature can be used to measure them...