Activities
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Use prepared index cards for this
"Balancing
Chemical Equations Activity."
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Use the "Classic
Chembalancer" to balance the equations on this
worksheet.
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Then, use the "Review
Chembalancer" to answer the questions on this review
worksheet.
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Try these "Balancing
Equations & Reaction Types" tutorials and worksheets.
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Have students do this "Simple
Chemical Reactions" crossword puzzle with answers.
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Then, do this "The
Rates of Chemical Reactions" crossword puzzle with answers.
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Make an overhead projector transparency
from this "Balancing Act"
blackline master and use it to introduce this "Balancing Act"
worksheet.
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Use this worksheet
for the "Snowman Challenge" game. Use this master
for the front of the cards and this one
for the back of the cards.
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Use this "Cartoon Chemistry" worksheet
to identify types of chemical reactions.
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Try any of these worksheets: "Balancing" ,
"Balancing Equations" ,
"Balancing Equations 2" ,
"Writing Chemical Equations"
with key ,
"Writing Chemical Equations 2"
with key ,
"Types of Reactions" ,
"Classifying and Balancing Equations" ,
"Chemical Equations 1" ,
"Chemical Equations 2" ,
or "Chemical Equations 3" .
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"Igniting
Chemistry With Fireworks" from Teacher's Domain is a lesson
plan that includes videos, interactive computer segments, and readings.
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Learn to balance equations with
marshmallows and sugar cookies with Mrs.
Bowling's "Balancing Equations with Marshmallows and Sugar Cookies"
worksheet.
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Predict the chemical formed by
the combination of ions with this "Nomenclature"
worksheet.
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Play the video of the "Mentos,
Diet Coke Explosion" that was shown on the Today Show.
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Illustrate the types of chemical
reactions with these "Chemical
Reactions with Flash Animation" produced by students.
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Show this video of "The
Catalytic Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide, II."
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Have students do this "Collision
Theory - A crash course for chemical reactions" WebQuest.
- David Katz's "Writing Chemical Equations" is a good tutorial and worksheet for writing chemical
equations.
- The Science Spot provides good practive for
balancing equations with "Balancing Act" , "Balancing Equations Practice" , and
"Balancing Equations Challenge" .
- Play "Bonding Jeopardy"
 a game contributed by Alicia Johnson
of Danville, CA.
Labs
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Try these simple "Temperature
Changing" chemical reactions.
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Do "The
Effects of Temperature on Rate", "The
Effect of Particle Size on Rate of Reaction", "Effect
of Concentration of the Reactants", and "Factors
which affect the rate of chemical reactions," experiments, all of which
use Alka-Seltzer.
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This, "Matter & Energy: Equations
and Formulas"
lab contains demos and labs as well as instructional material.
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Do these "Chemical Reactions"
demos
and "Chemical Reactions" lab .
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Explore rates of reaction with
the "Iodine Clock Reaction" lab .
 Or
try Flinn's "Iodine Clock Rection" lab .-
Do this "Single Replacement Reactions"
lab .
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Try these "Exothermic
and Endothermic Reactions" labs and demos.
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Do Flinn's "Magic Genie"
demonstration to display an exothermic reaction.
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To demonstrate that a catalyst
is not used up in a reaction, try Flinn's "The Pink Catalyst" .
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"Enzyme
Salad Lab" is a lab that shows how the enzymes in pineapple dissolve
gelatin.
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Use Flinn's "Sudsy Kinetics"
demonstration to illustrate an exothermic decompositon reaction that uses
a catalyst.
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Flinn's "Old Foamey"
demonstrates another decomposition reaction using a catalyst.
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Try this "Chemistry
in a Bag" lab to demonstrate changes occuring in chemical reactions.
It includes a student worksheet.
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Do this "Types of Chemical Reactions
Design Lab" .
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Do this "Mass
Relationships in Chemical Reactions " lab.
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Or try the "Double
Displacement Reactions" lab.
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"Chemical
Reactions of Metals in Solutions" is a virtual lab that uses this "Metals
in Aqueous Solutions" animation.
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Try this "Combustion Demo"
that uses isopropyl alcohol, a 2 liter soda bottle, and a wooden splint.
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Have students explore the chemical
reactions in a hotpack with "Make a Hotpack" .
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Flinn's "The Foating Tin Sponge"
demonstrates a single replacement reaction as well as an oxidation reduction
reaction and the activity series of metals.
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Your students will think you are the King or Queen of Chemistry when you
do Flinn's "Yellow and Blue Switcheroo"
demonstration, showing oscillating reactions and reaction mechanisms.
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This "Combustion
and Emissions" lesson includes laboratory activities an a PowerPoint
presentation.
- "Pickled Eggs Anyone?" is a lab where students
design experiments for the chemical reaction between egg shells an
vinegar.
- Flinn's "Keep Your Eye on the
Ions" is a double-replacement
reaction demonstration.
- Have student's do "The
Conservation of Mass" lab.
- Or another "Conservations of Mass" lab.
- Try the "Mentos + soda=?" lab and read "The Science Behind the
Soda Geyser" and "How Does It Work?" articles.
- Try Abigail
Freiberger's "Types of Chemical
Reactions" Lab.
- Or try her "Limiting Reactant and Percent Yield" Lab.
- Do this "Law of Conservation of Matter" Lab.
- Try this "Water-Wine-Milk-Beer"
demonstration. All the chemical reactions involved are
explained.
- Demonstrate the relationship between surface area
and the rate of reaction with this "Antacid
Tablet Race" demo.
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