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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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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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.
- Show your students this PowerPoint
on "Teacher's Guide to: Balancing
Chemical Equations" that has been converted to a YouTube
video.
Labs
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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 .
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try the Flinn Scientific, Inc. "Iodine Clock Reaction" lab .
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Do this "Single Replacement Reactions"
lab .
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Try these "Exothermic
and Endothermic Reactions" labs and demos.
- Or
try this "Exothermic or Endothermic" lab using steel wool and
Ziploc bags.
- Or
do this "Endothermic and Exothermic Reactions" lab that uses a TI® graphing calculator and Graph Link
along with a Vernier® temperature probe and adapting cable.
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Do the Flinn Scientific, Inc. "Magic Genie"
demonstration to display an exothermic reaction.
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"Enzyme
Salad Lab" is a lab that shows how the enzymes in pineapple dissolve
gelatin.
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Use the Flinn Scientific, Inc. "Sudsy Kinetics"
demonstration to illustrate an exothermic decompositon reaction that uses
a catalyst.
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The Flinn Scientific, Inc. "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 Scientific, Inc.'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 the Flinn Scientific, Inc. "Yellow and Blue Switcheroo"
demonstration, showing oscillating reactions and reaction mechanisms.
- "Pickled Eggs Anyone?" is a lab where students
design experiments for the chemical reaction between egg shells an
vinegar.
- The Flinn Scientific, Inc. "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
this "Types of
Reactions" 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.
- During the appropriate season, do Flinn's
"Winter Wonderland--Precipitation of Potassium Sulfate" lab.
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