Classroom Resources: Chemistry Basics

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  Separating Mixtures, Physical Properties, Chemical Change, Introduction, Physical Change, History, Lab Safety, Measurements, Significant Figures, SI Units, Chemical Properties | High School

  Lesson Plan: Chemistry Basics Unit Plan

  The AACT High School Classroom Resource library and multimedia collection has everything you need to put together a unit plan for your classroom: lessons, activities, labs, projects, videos, simulations, and animations. We searched through our resource library and constructed a unit plan for introducing the basic chemistry concepts to students: Laboratory Safety, Equipment, and Reports, Periodic Table Basics, Physical and Chemical Properties and Changes, Endothermic and Exothermic Changes, and Classification of Matter. These topics are very important for your students to master before they dig into other chemistry concepts. This unit is designed to be used at beginning of the school year.

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  Lab Safety | Middle School, High School

  Activity: Hazard Symbols

  In this activity, students will familiarize themselves with common hazard symbols and their meaning.

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  Introduction, Review, Lab Safety | Middle School, High School

  Activity: Laboratory Equipment Memory Game

  In this activity, students will play a modified version of the classic Memory Game in order to help them identify common laboratory equipment by name. This activity provides an opportunity for students to increase their familiarity with the laboratory equipment that they will be expected to properly use.

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  Lab Safety | Elementary School, Middle School, High School

  Activity: What Not to do in the Chemistry Lab

  In this activity, students will examine a cartoon of a chaotic chemistry laboratory and note the specific behaviors that are dangerous and unsafe in a chemistry laboratory setting. This activity provides an opportunity for teachers to introduce laboratory safety and best laboratory practices and discuss them with their students.

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  Observations, Density, Chemical Change, Lab Safety, Combustion | High School

  Demonstration: Fish Tank Carbon Dioxide

  In this demonstration, students watch as a reaction between baking soda and vinegar produces carbon dioxide, which then causes lit candles to extinguish.

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  Lab Safety | Middle School, High School

  Demonstration: Lab Safety

  In this demonstration, students discuss laboratory safety and observe corn starch being ignited.

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  Observations, Separating Mixtures, Chemical Change, Conservation of Mass, Lab Safety, Conservation of Matter, Balancing Equations, Percent Yield, Conservation of Mass, Classification of Reactions, Accuracy, Chemical Change, Chemical Properties, Conservation of Matter, Error Analysis | High School

  Lab: Reactions of Copper

  In this lab, students will convert copper metal into different copper compounds and then back to copper to illustrate conservation of matter.

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  Interdisciplinary, Lab Safety, Culminating Project | Middle School, High School

  Activity: Dangerous Goods Specialist

  In this activity, students will take on the role of a Dangerous Goods Specialist for a large chemical company. In this role, students will research a specific commercially available industrial chemical looking at both the properties of the compound as well as how can they safely ship the chemical to a buyer in a cost effective and timely manner.