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Beyond Benign

Catalysts and Oxygen

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Here is an engaging and hands-on lesson plan that allows high school chemists to demonstrate the effects of a catalyst on various chemicals. They garner knowledge of how reactants and products differ from one another, while...
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Rate Determining Step and Catalyst Activity

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students work in groups to stuff as many envelopes as they can in 3-5 minutes. They use an assembly line method. Envelope stuffing is compared to a chemical reactions. The idea of catalyst is considered, and students determine a way to...
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Equilibrium Practice

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
In this chemical reactions worksheet, students determine solubility product expressions, equilibrium constants, and equilibrium concentrations. This worksheet has 15 multiple choice questions and 3 problems to solve.
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Acids and Bases

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this acids and bases worksheet, students review the characteristics of acids and bases, pK values, factors that change the rate of reactions, and catalysts. This worksheet has 17 multiple choice questions.
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Chemistry Equilibrium Worksheet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
This worksheet focuses on writing equilibrium constants. Learners work to determine the direction of reactions, concentrations of different substances, and equilibrium constants.
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Reaction Mechanisms

For Teachers Higher Ed
In this reactions worksheet, students give the equation for the overall reaction, identifying the catalyst in the equation. Students create graphs and write out the rate determining step. This worksheet has 4 graphs, 2 short answers, and...
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Enzyme Lab

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the enzyme catalase. In this enzyme lesson plan, students observe a normal catalase reaction, they observe liver tissue, potato, chicken and apple for the enzyme catalase and they study the effects of temperature and...
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National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

Lab 1: Nanocatalysts Clean Your Car Emissions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What a big job for such a small particle. Young scientists learn about the role of nanoparticles in catalytic converters for cars. They conduct an experiment to create alginate-MnO2 catalytic spheres. 
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Kinetics

For Teachers Higher Ed
In this kinetics worksheet, students review activation energy, rate of reaction, and reaction mechanisms. This worksheet has 13 multiple choice questions.
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Stoichiometry

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
In this stoichiometry worksheet, students practice calculating moles, molarity, and the concentration of a solution in molarity. This worksheet has 12 multiple choice questions and 3 problems to solve.
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PhysioEx: Chemical and Physical Processes of Digestion

For Teachers Pre-K - Higher Ed
In this anatomy worksheet, students complete 22 review questions in the format of short answer, table completion, and fill in the blank after finishing an online virtual experiment about the chemical and physical processes of digestion.
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25 Greatest Protest Songs - Lesson 3

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze the lyrics of protest songs as a catalyst for social change. They discuss the influence of music on behavior and explain the use of music as a means of self-expression.
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Standard 4-Photosynthesis, Diseases and the Immune System

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this photosynthesis, disease and Immune System worksheet, high schoolers fill in the blanks with key terms to complete sentences about the transfer of energy from the sun to plants, enzymes as catalysts in reactions, homeostasis, the...
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WS 10.9 Plastic Recycling

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this recycling worksheet, students search for as many types of plastics categorized with the resin identification codes and fill in a chart for each plastic type. They identify the product name, the category the plastic is in, the...
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Fair Responses to Unfair Acts

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students understand the sacrifices and problems in undoing an unfair situation. In this unfairness lesson plan, students discuss the reasons for the Montgomery Boycott and discuss worksheet and feelings about dealing with unfair situations.
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Cranking Cooky Cars

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice the strategy of phoneme awareness with special vocal gestures or sound with the correspondence /k/. They listen as the book, "ABC," by Dr. Seuss is read to them and then they work on a tongue twister and worksheets.
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Ow! That Hurts

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study the ou=/ow/ correspondence in written and spoken words using a tongue twisters and a letterbox lesson. They recite the tongue twister and make given words using the letterboxes. Next, they listen to a read aloud of Audrey...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Kate Chopin's The Awakening: Searching for Women and Identity in Chopin's "The Awakening"

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The final activity of a three-part series on Kate Chopin's The Awakening has scholars investigate life as a woman in late nineteenth-century America. They research the role of women in society through the eyes of the characters in the...
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Out & About: Waterways

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students visit science museums. For this hands-on science lesson, students visit the Leith Conservation Trust, Catalyst, and the River and Rowing Museum in person or online to study Britain's waterways.
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25 Greatest Protest Songs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers analyze the lyrics of protest songs as a catalyst for social change. They discuss the influence of music on behavior and explain the use of music as historical record.
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Le Chatelier's Principle

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
For this chemical equilibrium worksheet, pupils review Le Chatelier's Principle and predict the direction of equilibrium shift for different changes to a chemical reactions. Students also review enthalpy and entropy. This worksheet has...
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Biomass: The Energy of the Future

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students research renewable fuels. In this alternative energy lesson, students compile information and create a comparison chart on renewable resources. This lesson includes additional suggested readings, vocabulary, and a Biomass...
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Shopping for Shoes

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners recognize that when the letters /s/ and /h/ are combined, they make the /sh/ sound. They listen for digraphs in spoken words. They practive writing the letter that makes the /sh/ sound on primary paper. They complete a worksheet...
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Hooty Hoo

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /o/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and...