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  • Finger Thermometer

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

  • Expansion and Contraction

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    In this activity, students will measure the expansion and contraction of a balloon as it is cooled and heated.

  • pH paper Lab

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    In this activity, students will use homemade pH paper to test a number of chemicals around the house.

  • Titration Lab

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

  • Adhesion and Cohesion Lab

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

  • The Mole

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

  • Calculating Moles Lab

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    In this activity, students calculate how many moles of salt and sugar are contained in packets.

  • Solutions, Suspensions, and Mixtures

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

  • The Foundational Science Content

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    Four of the big ideas represent the basic science content: Size and Scale, Structure of Matter, Forces and Interactions, and Quantum Effects. And all four are interrelated. None of the science-content big ideas stands…

  • Self-Assembly

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    Self-assembly is the process of matter organizing autonomously and without human intervention (Whitesides, Mathias, and Seto 1991; Withesides and Boncheva 2002). The process of self-assembly can be introduced in a range…

  • Tools and Instrumentation

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    Development of new tools and instruments helps drive scientific progress. Recent development of specialized tools has led to new levels of understanding of matter by helping scientists detect, manipulate, isolate,…

  • Models and Simulations

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    Scientists use models and simulations to help them visualize, explain, and make predictions and hypotheses about the structures, properties, and behaviors of phenomena (e.g., objects, materials, processes, systems). The…

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