Best Practices
Energy Transfer and Transformations
Big Ideas
Balloon in Flask Activity to Demonstrate the Effects of Temperature and Pressure on Gases
Chemiluminescent Demomstration of the Conversion of Chemical Energy to Light Energy
Conversion of Sound Signal of a Walkman to Electrical and Light Signals
Creating a Quiz Board out of Circuits
Creating your own Megaphone to Observe the properties of Sound Waves
Creative vocabulary definitions
Determining the Relative Strengths of Common Oxidizing Agents and Reducing Agents
Electrochemical Cells and the Conversion of Chemical Energy to Electrical Energy
Electrolysis of Potassium Iodide Lab- Observing Oxidation-Reduction Reactions
Energy and Heat Transfer Experiments
Exploding Flask Demonstration to Illustrate Catalysis and Thermochemical Properties
Generating Hydrogen Gas Bubble to Create a Handheld Explosion
Investigating Factors that Control the Rates of Reactions
Investigating Rates of Reactions and the Effects of Temperature and Concentration
Kinetics and Reaction Rate Demonstration
Making a Concept Map about different Forms of Energy
Observing Ion Migration using Electrochemical Cells
Producing Electrical Energy from Oxidation Reduction Reactions in Galvanic Cells
Sound waves Lab- Understanding Pitch, frequency and vibrations in Matter
Testing Conductivity to Determine the Ionization of a Solution
Thermodynamics of Making Ice Cream- Exploring Heat and Colligative Properties of matter