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Classroom Resources: Chemistry Basics

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  • Lab Safety | Elementary School, Middle School, High School

    Video: Video 5: RAMP (For Students) Mark as Favorite (18 Favorites)

    Use this video to teach your students a simple yet powerful tool for protecting you and your classmates in the lab. The tool is called RAMP. RAMP stands for: Recognize hazards; Assess risks; Minimize risks and Prepare for emergencies.

  • Lab Safety | Elementary School, Middle School, High School

    Video: Video 6: RAMP (For Teachers) Mark as Favorite (5 Favorites)

    As a teacher, there are steps you can take to make sure your students are as safe as possible while exploring and experimenting in the lab. In this video, we discuss some ideas to help you to set up a safe lab experiment. We use RAMP, the acronym for lab safety. RAMP stands for Recognize hazards; Assess risks; Minimize risks and Prepare for emergencies. RAMP is a simple yet powerful tool to help you prepare for and safely carry out any lab activity with your students.

  • Measurements, Dimensional Analysis, Physical Change, Matter, Mixtures | Middle School, High School

    Access is an AACT member benefit. Activity: Cooking with Conversions Mark as Favorite (46 Favorites)

    In this activity, students will be given a common homemade recipe for German chocolate cake with measurements in English units. They will be asked to convert the English ingredients list to metric units through scientific calculations. Students will also be asked to identify the ingredients as solid, liquid or gas. While reviewing the cooking procedures, students will classify certain steps as containing compounds or mixtures as well as identify whether chemical or physical changes are taking place. The culinary chemistry involved in this lesson should be introduced throughout the activity.

  • Lab Safety, Physical Properties, Chemical Properties, History | Middle School, High School

    Access is an AACT member benefit. Project: Chemical Disasters: Good Chemicals gone Bad! Mark as Favorite (69 Favorites)

    In this project, students will research an industrial chemical accident. They will examine the chemicals involved including uses, hazards, chemical and physical properties. Students will investigate the cause of the accident and its repercussions. As the final product, they will film a 5-minute documentary which will be viewed in class.

  • Periodic Table, Elements, Introduction, Temperature | High School

    Access is an AACT member benefit. Activity: An Element Fill-In Puzzle Mark as Favorite (3 Favorites)

    In this activity, students will solve a puzzle by using element symbols from the periodic table to fill-in missing letters in familiar chemistry terms related to energy and thermodynamics.

  • Periodic Table, Elements | Elementary School, Middle School, High School

    Access is an AACT member benefit. Activity: The Periodic Table: Put Your Love to the Test! Mark as Favorite (26 Favorites)

    In this activity, students will be challenged to see how familiar they are will the element names on the periodic table. Students will examine a heart-shaped word search, following the rules of the assigned difficulty level (beginner, intermediate, or advanced) in order to identify as many element names as possible.

  • Molecular Structure, Intermolecular Forces, Physical Properties | High School

    Access is an AACT member benefit. Lab: Solubility Plays a Role: Making Seitan from Flour Mark as Favorite (13 Favorites)

    This lab offers insight into a practical aspect of solubility and demystifies a common ingredient, wheat flour. In this lab students will read about the composition and observe some properties of whole wheat flour by preparing seitan, a vegetarian meat substitute made from the glutenin and gliadin proteins in flour. Gluten, formed from the interaction of the aforementioned proteins, has a unique property of elasticity.

  • Periodic Table, Elements, History | Middle School, High School

    Access is an AACT member benefit. Activity: The Disappearing Spoon Reading Questions Mark as Favorite (47 Favorites)

    In this activity, students will read a series of passages from the young readers edition of The Disappearing Spoon that are related to the elements in the AACT video series

  • Periodic Table, Elements, History | Middle School, High School

    Access is an AACT member benefit. Activity: The Disappearing Spoon Video Questions Mark as Favorite (58 Favorites)

    In this activity, students will watch videos from the AACT original video series, Sam Kean’s Disappearing Spoon. While watching a video, students will answer several questions related to the particular element of focus.

  • Periodic Table, Elements | Elementary School

    Access is an AACT member benefit. Activity: Elemental Scrabble Mark as Favorite (3 Favorites)

    In this activity students will create words using element symbols in order to become more familiar with the periodic table.

  • Periodic Table, Elements, Physical Properties, History, Atomic Mass, Subatomic Particles | High School

    Access is an AACT member benefit. Activity: Which Element Am I? Mark as Favorite (86 Favorites)

    In this activity, students will be challenged by a list of clues that describe 50 different elements from the periodic table. Using their own knowledge, or the help of the internet students will determine the identity of each element based on the clue provided.

  • Periodic Table, Elements, Atomic Mass, Subatomic Particles | Middle School, High School

    Access is an AACT member benefit. Activity: Periodic Table Connect The Dots Mark as Favorite (126 Favorites)

    In this activity, students solve a series of clues about elements in order to uncover a message that has been hidden in the periodic table. Using the clues, students draw lines between identified elements on the table, which then connect to form the message. Two versions of this activity are available, varying the difficulty level of the clues.

  • Matter, Physical Properties, Observations | Elementary School

    Access is an AACT member benefit. Activity: Is Air Matter? Mark as Favorite (10 Favorites)

    In this activity, students will conduct an investigation to discover whether or not air is a form of matter. Students will first gather data, and then make a claim. They will communicate their claim in writing, using their data to support their claim.

  • Physical Properties, Observations, Matter | Elementary School

    Access is an AACT member benefit. Activity: Describing Physical Properties Mark as Favorite (1 Favorite)

    In this activity, students will use their five senses to describe the physical properties of a variety of items. Students will also determine what state of matter the item is, and categorize it accordingly. Students will practice using vocabulary words as they record their observations in a data table.

  • Density, Measurements | Elementary School

    Access is an AACT member benefit. Demonstration: Sinking Soda Mark as Favorite (4 Favorites)

    In this teacher led demonstration, students will compare their observations when unopened cans of diet and regular soda are placed in a large container of water. They will use their observations to help differentiate between several fundamental chemistry concepts: mass, volume, and density.

  • Density, Identifying an Unknown, Measurements | Elementary School, Middle School

    Access is an AACT member benefit. Demonstration: Household Densities Mark as Favorite (6 Favorites)

    In this demonstration, students will make predictions about various household materials and whether or not each will sink or float when placed in water. Data will be collected and then used to calculate the density value of each item. Finally students will analyze the relationship between the density value and the observed outcome, and use their knowledge to identify unknown materials.

  • Density, Combustion, Lab Safety | High School

    Access is an AACT member benefit. Demonstration: Density of Gases and Particle Diagrams Mark as Favorite (8 Favorites)

    In this demonstration, students will observe the teacher carry out two combustion reactions. First the teacher will burn a small sample of propane gas in a beaker. Next the teacher will burn a small sample of methane gas. Students will create particle diagrams in order support their explanation and model their observations as they improve their understanding of gas density.

  • Periodic Table, Elements | Elementary School, Middle School

    Access is an AACT member benefit. Activity: Elemental Mix-up Mark as Favorite (14 Favorites)

    In this activity, students will test their knowledge of the periodic table as they attempt to unscramble element names and use select letters to solve a mystery message.

  • Introduction, Interdisciplinary, History, Heat, Renewable Energy, Polymers, Molecular Structure | Middle School, High School

    Access is an AACT member benefit. Activity: The Frontiers of Chemistry: Video Questions Mark as Favorite (17 Favorites)

    In this activity, students will answer questions while watching a video about several exciting scientific developments, including solar cells, 3D printing and micro machines. This video will help students understand that fundamental chemistry concepts are essential to the advancement of science and technology.

  • Percent Composition, Mole Concept, Identifying an Unknown, Emission Spectrum, Empirical Formula, Percent Composition | High School

    Access is an AACT member benefit. Lesson Plan: Chemical Analysis of Martian Rocks Mark as Favorite (103 Favorites)

    In this lesson, students are challenged to analyze the spectral graphs obtained by the Curiosity Mars Rover. Based on their examination students will determine the component elements of each sample, as well as the relative abundance of each element. With this information the student will complete calculations to find the empirical formula and identify the composition of the unknown rock. Finally students will complete research to see if these rocks are actually like those on Earth.

  • Elements, Identifying an Unknown, Atomic Spectra, Emission Spectrum, Electromagnetic Spectrum, Emission Spectrum | Elementary School, Middle School

    Access is an AACT member benefit. Lesson Plan: Elements Are Out of This World Mark as Favorite (6 Favorites)

    In this lesson, students will learn about the elements that make up Earth’s atmosphere and lithosphere and then compare and contrast the information with the elements that compose various other astronomical objects.

  • Intermolecular Forces, Polarity, Molecular Geometry, Molecular Structure, Molecular Structure , Physical Properties, Chemical Properties, Physical Change | High School

    Access is an AACT member benefit. Lesson Plan: An Exploration of Intermolecular Forces Mark as Favorite (53 Favorites)

    In this lesson students will explore intermolecular forces, and their associated effect on physical and chemical properties. Students will experiment with volatile liquids to investigate their predictions about intermolecular strength.

  • Review, Matter, Density, Physical Change, Chemical Change, Periodic Table, Elements, Mixtures | Elementary School, Middle School

    Access is an AACT member benefit. Activity: Chemistry Basics: Crossword Puzzle Mark as Favorite (2 Favorites)

    In this activity, students will complete a crossword puzzle by solving each clue that is related to a basic, yet fundamental chemistry topic.

  • Review, Physical Properties, Density, Periodic Table, Mixtures | Middle School, High School

    Access is an AACT member benefit. Activity: Chemistry Basics: Advanced Crossword Puzzle Mark as Favorite (18 Favorites)

    In this activity, students will complete a crossword puzzle by solving each clue that is related to a fundamental chemistry topic.

  • Chemical Change, Chemical Change, Acid Base Reactions, Observations | Middle School, High School

    Access is an AACT member benefit. Lab: How do Sinkholes Form? Mark as Favorite (41 Favorites)

    In this lab students will learn how acidic groundwater reacts with limestone, causing it to erode. Sinkholes form when eroded limestone underneath the surface of the earth can no longer support the ground above it. Students will test how acid reacts with a variety of rocks and determine which rocks would be best to build a city on top of in order to reduce the chance of sinkholes forming.

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