Chemistry

Are you looking for a simple and innovative way to help your students visualize the balancing of equations and the Law of Conservation of Matter? Use this hands-on kit to make the abstract concept of “atoms” become more visual and real for students. ...

Millions of chemical reactions occur around us every second of every day. They are involved in the making of food, paper, plastics, and fuels, and enable us to breathe, grow, see, and digest and metabolize food. In this laboratory activity, students ...

Millions of chemical reactions occur around us every second of every day. They are involved in the making of food, paper, plastics, and fuels, and enable us to breathe, grow, see, and digest and metabolize food. In this laboratory activity, students ...

Dyes color our world and are found in everything from clothing to food. Yet only seven dyes are used to make all of the artificial colors seen in food made in the United States. Food processing is a rigorous undertaking—explore how these dyes may cha...

Students will predict and write 26 reactions knowing only the chemical names involved in the reactions. Students will then proceed to set up all 26 reactions. Based on their observations, students will correct their written equations. This lab will g...

How old is the copper penny in your pocket? It may be older than you think! Recovery and recycling of copper metal is a thriving industry. The purpose of this experiment is to carry out a sequence of chemical reactions that starts with copper and end...

Start with copper-end with copper! Students perform a series of chemical reactions to convert copper metal to its nitrate, hydroxide, oxide, chloride, phosphate, sulfate, and finally back to copper metal. Students practice many standard laboratory te...

Produce something new—synthesize! Aluminum potassium sulfate (alum) is used for many different purposes—from pickling foods to aftershave for men. Students perform a multi-step chemical reaction starting with a common household ingredient—aluminum fo...

Some of the most colorful and interesting compounds to study in chemistry are the coordination compounds. These compounds are usually salts that contain a complex ion; that is, a metal atom bonded to small polar anions, or ligands. In this two-part l...