Curated OER
Synthesizing Pigment and Dyeing Cloth
Students create a synthetic dye and oxidize the dye and record the effects.
Curated OER
Enzymatic Browning Experiment
Students, in groups, experiment with Heat Blanching, Vitamin C Dip, and Sulfur Dioxide Dip to see if they can prevent enzymatic browning.
Curated OER
Food Energy and Nutrients
In this food energy and nutrients instructional activity, students fill in the blank and complete a chart with information about food energy and essential nutrients needed for the body. Using the Nelson text, students complete a chart...
Curated OER
Field Trip to test Water Quality
Students examine water quality indicators,test water quality and record their results. In this water quality instructional activity students complete a water testing lab and complete a lab report.
Curated OER
Tracking Ozone
Students track an ozone event in Groton, CT. They compare weather changes and the subsequent ozone levels. Also, they make comparisons and determinations about ozone levels.
Curated OER
Science: What Happens to Create the Lode?
Students understand how mineral deposits are formed and why they are not evenly dispersed. They create and describe three different precipitates from four solutions simulating mineral ore deposit formation in sedimentary rock.
Curated OER
Urban Impact on Chollas Creek (California): A Field Study
Students, in groups, take samples from a creek and keep a field journal on their samples. They also perform tests on their samples.
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Chiral Publishing
Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Process of Chemical Reactions [Pdf]
This chemistry chapter covers everything about chemical reactions. Read about the collision theory, rates of chemical reactions, reversible reactions, and chemical equilibrium. Many pictures and graphs will help to explain the concepts.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Factors Influencing Rates of Chemical Reactions
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.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Chemical Reactions
This web-based activity gives students an opportunity to write chemical reactions, balance chemical equations, and explain what is happening during a given chemical reaction. Also addressed is the effects of concentration and temperature...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How to Speed Up Chemical Reactions (And Get a Date)
This video explores by analogy what factors speed up reaction rates in chemical reactions. [4:56] Includes a brief quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Rates of Reactions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this module, students will practice expressing the rates of chemical reactions, and they will also describe the collision theory as it relates to chemical reactions.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Lesson Plans: Temperature and Rate of Chemical Reaction
Students experiment to see if the temperature of two clear colorless solutions affects how fast they react.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Can You Change the Rate of a Chemical Reaction?
The ingredients in Alka-Seltzer tablets undergo a chemical reaction that produces carbon dioxide gas as soon as the tablets hit water. Do you think you can cause the tablets to produce gas faster by breaking them into smaller pieces...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Chemical Reactions and Stoichiometry
In this activity, students explore reactions in which chemical bonds are formed and broken. Students experiment with changing the temperature and the concentration of the atoms in order to see how these affect reaction rates. They also...
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Controlling Chemical Reactions
This lesson focuses on comparing the reaction rate of chemical reactions with different surface areas.
Concord Consortium
The Molecular Workbench Database: Chemical Reactions and Stoichiometry
This simulation helps students investigate the basics of chemical equations. Students will review stoichiometry and what effects their reaction rates.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Reversible Reactions
Watch a reaction proceed over time. How does total energy affect a reaction rate? This model represents an analogy of chemical reactions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Chemical Reaction Rate
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of chemical reaction rate and factors that influence it.
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College: Chem Lab: Chemical Kinetics 1
In this experiment, you will determine the rate law and confirm the mechanism of the reaction between cyclohexanone and iodine. Requires Java and QuickTime plug-ins to access some features.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Lesson Plans: A Catalyst and the Rate of Reaction
Students observe and investigate how a catalyst increases the rate of a chemical reaction while not becoming part of the products of the reaction.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Reactions & Rates
Explore what makes a reaction happen by colliding atoms and molecules. Design experiments with different reactions, concentrations, and temperatures. When are reactions reversible? What affects the rate of a reaction?
Crescent Public Schools
The Internet Science Room: Chemical Reaction Rates
This tutorial provides an explanation of reaction rates in chemical reactions with examples and sample problems.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Chemical Reactions: Factors Which Influence Rate of Reaction
In this activity, students investigate and discover how surface area, concentration, and temperature affect the rate of a chemical reaction. This lab is designed for students to practice good experimental tests of hypotheses, synthesize...