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Mean Free Path Activity

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Mean Free Path Activity

In this activity, students will calculate the mean free path of a simulated gas sample....

Freezing Water

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Freezing Water

In this activity, students will see if the volume of an ice and water mixture goes up or down when the ice melts....

Surface Tension Lab

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Surface Tension Lab

In this activity, students will count how many drops of water they can put on the face of a penny with and without dishwashing liquid in the water....

Density of Oil Lab

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Density of Oil Lab

In this activity, students will estimate the density of cooking oil by comparing it to water...

Chromatography Lab

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Chromatography Lab

In this activity, students will perform paper chromatography on different inks to find the source of the ink....

Building Your Balance

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Building Your Balance

In this activity, students learn how to use a single-beam balance to determine the masses of objects. Students use the density of water to determine the mass needed to balance the objects....

Mechanoluminescence: Making Things Light Up

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Mechanoluminescence: Making Things Light Up

In this activity, students will see how applying a force to a Wint-O-Green Life Saver causes it to light up....

Intensive and Extensive Properties

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Intensive and Extensive Properties

In this activity, students will split colored water into different cups and observe the properties...

Creating a Colloid

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Creating a Colloid

In this activity, students will create a substance that does not clearly fall into the categories of solid, liquid, gas, or plasma....

Average Atomic Mass Simulation

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Average Atomic Mass Simulation

In this activity, students will use a large number of small objects to find the average mass of the objects....

Reaction Rate

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Reaction Rate

In this activity, students will dissolve pieces of Alka-Seltzer tablets in water after crushing them and heating the water, and then time how long the reaction takes to complete....

Molecular Motion and Temperature

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Molecular Motion and Temperature

In this activity, students will see how the rate of diffusion varies in cold, room temperature, and hot water....

Boiling Water in a Syringe

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Boiling Water in a Syringe

In this activity, students will make warm water boil by reducing the pressure inside a syringe...

Lifting an Ice Cube With a String

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Lifting an Ice Cube With a String

In this activity, students will lift an ice cube by sprinkling salt over a string on the ice....

Chemical Formula Simulations

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Chemical Formula Simulations

In this activity, students will construct molecules out of papers they cut out to determine the chemical formula and the method for writing chemical formulas....

Chemical Reaction Simulation

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Chemical Reaction Simulation

In this activity, students will use their ion pieces to simulate the finishing and balancing of chemical equations....

Pendulum Lab

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Pendulum Lab

In this activity, students determine which of three variables affects the period of a pendulum....

Identifying Types of Streetlights Lab

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Identifying Types of Streetlights Lab

In this activity, students will build an apparatus that will allow them to see the spectrum created by different streetlights....

Growing Crystals

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Growing Crystals

In this activity, students will grow crystals of sugar, sodium chloride, and Epsom salts....

Decomposition of Water Lab

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Decomposition of Water Lab

In this activity, students will decompose water by running electricity through inert conductors....

Solubility Lab

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Solubility Lab

In this activity, students will judge the solubility of three solids and three liquids....

Sea Ice Lab

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Sea Ice Lab

In this activity, students will learn whether or not ice formed on the surface of ice water is salty....

Invisible Ink Lab

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Invisible Ink Lab

In this activity, students will create an “invisible ink” and then test to see which chemical may be responsible for making it invisible...

Oxidation Lab

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Oxidation Lab

In this activity, students will put two different types of nails (galvanized and nongalvanized) into different conditions to see how the rate of rusting is affected....

Synthesis Reaction

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Synthesis Reaction

In this activity, students will put a penny in ammonia and observe it for several days....

Thickness of Paper Lab

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Thickness of Paper Lab

In this activity, students determine the thickness of one sheet of paper....

Single Displacement Reaction

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Single Displacement Reaction

In this activity, students will use steel wool and vinegar to form iron (II) acetate....

Double Displacement Reaction: Precipitate Lab

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Double Displacement Reaction: Precipitate Lab

In this activity, students will mix ammonia with the iron (II) acetate from Activity 40 to make a precipitate....

Cartesian Diver Lab

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Cartesian Diver Lab

In this activity, students will make a Cartesian diver out of a mustard packet and paper clip....

Pressure Lab

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Pressure Lab

In this activity, students will see a card held up by atmospheric pressure when water and a partial vacuum are above it. ...

Boyle’s Law Lab

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Boyle’s Law Lab

In this activity, students will see how different objects act when placed under pressures higher and lower than atmospheric pressure....

Finger Thermometer

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Finger Thermometer

In this activity, students will attempt to estimate the temperature of objects by touching them....

Titration Lab

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Titration Lab

In this activity, students will titrate a known concentration of baking soda with vinegar to find out the concentration of the vinegar...

Redox Reaction Lab

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Redox Reaction Lab

In this activity, Students will allow steel wool to rust overnight and measure approximately how much oxygen is consumed....

Graphing The Ball’s Bounce

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Graphing The Ball’s Bounce

In this activity, students measure the height of a ball’s bounce versus its drop height....

Adhesion and Cohesion Lab

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Adhesion and Cohesion Lab

In this activity, students will put drops of liquids on different surfaces and see if they bead up or wet the surface....

Investigation an Urban Legend

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Investigation an Urban Legend

In this activity, students test the idea that gravity makes you shorter from morning to night....

The Mole

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The Mole

In this activity, students will describe a mole of different substances....

Solutions, Suspensions, and Mixtures

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Solutions, Suspensions, and Mixtures

In this activity, students will test whether solutions, suspensions, and mixtures can be separated with a filter. ...

Scavenger Hunt

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Scavenger Hunt

In this activity, students identify the scientific names of items they have around the house....

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