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This Under the Hood: The Chemistry of Cars instructional video also includes:
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.
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Instructional Ideas
- Present this video during a chemistry lesson series on exothermic reactions or mixtures/solutions
- Have students create and balance a chemical equation representing the combustion reactions in automobiles
- Follow up a viewing of the video with an experiment investigating the properties of different ethylene glycol solutions
- Use the video to introduce a science project in which students design a device to either maximize or minimize heat transfer in a system
Pros
- Includes diagrams that support the content being presented
- Uses academic language that is accessible to middle and high school students
- Allows teachers to create customized lessons based on the video
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- None