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Acids and Bases
For this acid and base worksheet, students solve 11 problems including calculating pH of solutions, describing buffers, calculating solubilities of solutions and identifying acid-base pairs.
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Carrying Charges
What's all the buzz about electricity? Scholars take part in a scientific activity to test the conductivity of liquids and solutions. They first see if water, salad oil, alcohol, and vinegar cause a buzzer to buzz when electrodes are...
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Sore Throats, Variation 1
Why does Nia's water taste saltier than Trey's if she put more into her cup than he did? Math masters set up proportions in order to compare the mixtures. This task effectively has learners apply the concepts of ratio and proportion to a...
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Math 121 - Mixture Problems
In this mixture problem worksheet, students read story problems, identify necessary information, and solve mixture problems using the mixture formula. This one-page worksheet contains ten problems. Answers are provided at the bottom of...
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Starch and Sugar Testing 1
Eighth graders determine the presence of starch and sugar in unknown solutions. This task assesses students' abilities to observe, record and interpret data, classify, generalize/infer, construct data tables, and identify sugar and...
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Rate of Solution
Eighth graders determine the amount of agitation necessary to dissolve various sized sugar particles. This task assess students' abilities to collect, organize, and interpret data, create appropriate graphs, predict future events based...
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Mixtures
In this mixtures pre-lab activity, students compare and contrast suspensions and colloids and solutions and colloids. Students describe the Tyndall effect. This activity has 10 short answer questions.
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The Effects of Temperature on Chemical Mixtures
Students explore chemical cahnges and the effect of temperature on chemical mixturees, They make observations of the behavior and appearance of certain chemical mixtures and reactions.
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Making Soap
In this soap instructional activity, students produce soap in the laboratory and test their product by using it to wash away engine oil. Students answer four questions about tests they perform on their soap.
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Mixtures of Matter
Young scholars experiment with solids and liquids. For this mixtures of matter lesson, students combine matter to form solutions. Young scholars hypothesize, test, and analyze the data to draw conclusions. The lesson can be extended by...
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In the Mix
Students construct a water filter. In this engineering lesson, students discover how to construct a water filtration system. Students work in groups to sort tools by their properties. Students analyze and construct a water filtration...
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Shake It Up
Students explore the three types of mixtures through the use of interactive video. They experiment making mixtures using a variety of ingredients, while observing, comparing and contrasting, and identifying the types of mixtures.
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Making Mayonnaise - An Edible Emulsion
Students find a way to mix oil and water. In this emulsion lesson, students attempt to mix oil and water, then add egg yolk to the mixture to serve as an emulsifier and observe the results.
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Can Acid and Bases Remedy the Body?
Students experiment with acids and bases using technology-based "probe-ware", computers, and household products in this exciting biology/chemistry lesson. The lesson was written for an advanced 6th grade class.
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Cell Size and Division or How Big Would You Want To Be if You Were a Cell?
Students investigate why cells divide. For this cell size lesson plan, students observe how far a solution travels into 3 different size model cells of agar. They answer questions about the most effect movement of "nutrients" into the...
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Sensational Slime
Students mix solutions of polyvinyl alcohol and borax. They predict what happen and record their observations. They prepare a T-chart comparing Jell-o to their mixture.
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Crystals
Fourth graders use mucilage glue and magnesium sulfate to make crystals. They mix the ingredients, place a drop on a glass slide and observe the forming crystals.
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Art Class, Variation 1
Student statisticians calculate ratios to determine how many shades of green were mixed by Ms. Baca's art class. They graph the number of blue parts against the number of yellow parts for each combination and discover that some produce...
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Chemical Reactions
Investigate the Law of Conservation of Mass through a lab exploration. Individuals combine materials to initiate chemical reactions. They monitor for signs of reactions and measure the masses before and after the reactions for...
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Transition Metal Ions and Redox
In this transition metal ions and redox learning exercise, high schoolers read about the formation of metal ions through oxidation and reduction.
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Equilibrium and Acid/Base Equilibrium
In this acid/base and equilibrium activity, students solve seven problems including calculating equilibrium concentrations of all species in a reaction, calculating the pH of solutions, determining the direction of a reaction at...
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Polymers Lab: Bouncy Ball and Slime
Eighth graders investigate chemical reactions to produce polymers. In this polymers lesson plan, 8th graders experiment with sodium silicate and ethyl alcohol to make a polymer. They also experiment with borax and glue to make a polymer....
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Properties of Acids and Bases
Students observe and investigate properties of acids and bases. In this acids and bases lesson plan, students perform 5 different experiments including reactions of acids and metals, reaction of acids with carbonates, neutralization...
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Mixtures, Percentage and Equation Stoichiometry
In this chemistry worksheet, students answer 2 problems on solution stoichiometry. They calculate the mass of products formed given a certain amount of reactant.