Chemistry Lesson Plan Menu
Developed in 2012
Absorption Spectroscopy and Solution Stoichiometry (Grades 10 & 11)
Gas Properties Virtual Lab (Grade 10)
Melting Ice With Road Salt: An Inquiry-Based Project (Grades 6-8)
Developed in 2011
Using Flame Tests to Identify Unknowns (Grades 9 - 12)
Developed in 2010
Alka Rockets! An Introduction to Kinetics (Grades 9 & 10)
Lithography Techniques/Making a Printed Circuit Board (Grades 10-12)
Developed in 2009
How is the Strength of an Acid Determined?
Developed in 2008
BioFuels: The chemistry and economics of alternative fuels
Finding the Average Atomic Mass of the Element Chocolatium
Finding the Average People Mass for the Element Called "Humans"
How is a REDOX reaction used to power a car?/Can the car run on hydrogen?
How much carbon dioxide is in my seltzer water?
Developed in 2007
A reaction involving production of a gas
How is column chromatography useful?
Water: a lesson in polarity and solubility
Developed in 2006
Developed in 2005
Acidic Apples.....Basic Belches
DNA fingerprinting through a chemistry lens
What are the elements and their symbols?
Developed in 2004
Organization of the Periodic Table
Teaching the concept of chemical potential energy
Developed in 2003
How does adding a solute affect the freezing point of a solvent?
How to identify a physical change from a chemical change
Radioactive decay and half-life
Developed in 2002
Atomic structure - Historical background
Demonstrating liquid crystallization
The flame and the atom: Rutherford’s gold foil experiment
The nature of dissolving processes
What factors affect when water boils?
Which brand of Air Freshener is most cost effective?
Developed in 2001
Chromatography: What is it? How does it work? and Who uses it?
How can we measure the rate of a chemical reaction?
The conceptual theory of chromatography
Extraction of allicin: The active ingredient in garlic
How does nuclear fission differ from nuclear fusion?
Synthesis and scanning probe microscopy of electrically and optically active liquid crystals (for staff development)
Developed in 2000
Arsenic contamination research
Compounds, formulas and equations
Determining the size and purity of a molecule sample
How are the
properties of covalent compounds influenced by chemical bonding?
How can we determine the concentration of an unknown
solution?
How may natural substances be analyzed as standards using thin-layer chromatography (TLC)?
Investigating the shapes of covalent molecules
Mathematical and chemical relationships of stoichiometric problems
Measuring thermal energy transfer
Observing the effect of a change in conditions on a system at equilibrium
The periodic table of elements game
Two activities related to natural products
Using thin
layer chromatography to identify amino
acids in solution
Developed in 1999
Chemical composition of everyday objects
Demonstrating that light is dissipated as chlorophyll a fluoresces
Developing a theory about the nature of the contents of a sealed box
Devising a set of experiments to test water for dissolved substances
Exothermic and endothermic changes
How can we calculate the molecular weight of butane?
How do I get a pure sample of the molecules I make?
Investigating the shapes of covalent molecules
Teaching students how to read the protein concentration in a sample
Understanding of the structure of an amino group
Using chromatography to identify substances in an unknown solution
What is the thermal depolymerization process?
Developed in 1998
How can we accurately make different solutions of different concentrations?
How can we calculate an equilibrium constant?
How can we make mini-molar concentrations of HCl?
Introduction to AP Chemistry
The synthesis of some organic compounds and their representative structures
Developed in 1997
Beta-oxidation of unsaturated fatty acids
Determining the concentration of a solution: Beer's Law
How can the concentrations of a solution be determined?
How does a spectrophotometer work?
Preparation of chalcone derivatives
Pressure-volume relationship in gases (Boyle's Law)
Developed in 1995