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360Science™ blends the best of student-engaging digital content with easily adaptable hands-on labs to offer your students a uniquely comprehensive learning experience.
In this lab experience, students use spectrophotometry and graphical analysis to determine the concentration of dye in a sports drink. Students prepare a series of standard dilutions of an FD&C dye stock solution and measure the percent transmittance of each. They analyze the results graphically to obtain a Beer’s law calibration curve of absorbance versus concentration. Using this calibration curve, students determine the concentration of dye in a beverage sample. Editable, differentiated instructions range from a time-sensitive prescriptive lab to full open inquiry, and robust online videos and content—including a virtual reality (VR) simulation—help students prepare for and better understand the labs they’re conducting.
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360Science™: Analysis of Food Dyes in Beverages
Concepts: Spectroscopy, Beer’s law, chemical analysis, analyte concentration determination
Outcomes: Students will obtain a Beer’s calibration curve plotting absorbance versus concentration of dye in standard solutions, along with the linear equation that describes this plot. They will use this equation (Beer’s law relationship) to determine the concentration of dye in a sports drink sample. In the advanced and open versions, students will measure the absorption spectrum of one of the FD&C dyes to determine its wavelength of maximum absorption, prior to preparing the Beer’s calibration curve.
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Our 1-year option provides access to all digital content for one year plus lab supplies for a single class of 30 students. Our 3-year option extends access to digital content to three years, with a 30% discount on refill supply kits years 2 and 3.
What is Flinn 360Science™?
We’re introducing a whole new way to teach experiential science! We’ve taken a hard look at science study from all perspectives and, thanks to the feedback of thousands of teachers nationwide, we’ve created a way to make it easier to provide personalized instruction while delivering the kind of lab experiences your students truly need.
Our new and comprehensive learning solutions are designed to bring science to life by giving you all the tools you need to incorporate more (and effective) hands-on learning in your classroom or lab. 360Science allows you to provide your students with the support they need to make real-world connections to key scientific principles and help make those abstract concepts concrete.
Every 360Science lab solves the most common challenges educators face in bringing more hands-on science to their students—from not having enough time to matching the right level of challenge for students’ abilities to providing appropriate background content, safety techniques, assessments and more.
Enable student-driven, blended learning through a unique combination of leveled lab instructions supporting prescriptive, guided- and open-inquiry lab exercises (see PDF resource for specific details) with robust digital content, such as videos and carefully curated Open Educational Resources (OER)—along with virtual reality and simulation exercises. From editable, digital instructions to assessments and alignment with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), we have everything you need to improve mastery, remove the intimidation factor and foster your students’ natural curiosity.
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HS-PS1-7. Use mathematical representations to support the claim that atoms, and therefore mass, are conserved during a chemical reaction.
360Science™: Analysis of Food Dyes in Beverages