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  • Density Column in a Straw

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    In this activity, students will make a series of liquid layers with different densities using nontoxic chemicals. This free activity includes the Teacher Pages and Student Pages for this activity and the Table of…

  • Building Your Balance

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

  • Creating a Colloid

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

  • Pendulum Lab

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

  • Balancing Chemical Equations Simulation

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    In this activity, students will use paper cutouts to simulate chemical reactions and balancing products and reactants

  • Molecular Shape

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    In this activity, students will determine whether the shape of a water molecule is linear or bent

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