Instructional Video

Theoretical Yield and Losses

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Theory is when you know everything, but nothing works right. Video focuses on how to find theoretical yield and why the theory doesn't work in reality. It includes a practice problem for finding the theoretical yield and concludes with many of the reasons the theoretical yield is never actually obtained. Video is the 18th in a series of 29.

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CCSS: Adaptable
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Instructional Ideas
  • Connect the lesson to other disciplines where the laboratory results are not the same as the real-world results, such as medicine and safety testing
Classroom Considerations
  • Requires prior knowledge of atomic mass, chemical equations, and conservation of mass
  • Video best fits after students are comfortable with chemical calculations
Pros
  • Highlights the definition of new terms
  • Contains the cue to pause the video to allow time for solving before moving on
Cons
  • None
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