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| Getting to Know You |
Background |
In this introductory activity students will learn how
to log in to ChemSense, set up their personal folders,
and create a simple molecule. |
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| Break it Down |
Matter |
In this activity students will use ChemSense to explore
and demonstrate their understanding of the classification
of matter. |
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| What is that Matter |
Matter |
In this introduction to classification activity, students
will use ChemSense to draw and compare elements, compounds
and mixtures. |
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| Stoichiometry |
Stoichiometry |
This activity is designed to have students animate the
formation of water molecules from molecules of hydrogen
and oxygen. |
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| Crazy Chemistry |
Stoichiometry |
In this activity students master their understanding
of balanced equations through the study of hydrocarbon
combustion, single displacement, and double displacement
reactions. |
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| Picture This |
Solutions |
In this activity students use ChemSense to visualize
ionic and molecular compounds in different phases |
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| Dissolving Process |
Solutions |
In this activity students animate the dissolving process
of sodium chloride in water. |
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| It's a Gas |
Gasses |
In this activity students will animate gas behavior
for three different scenarios of gases under various conditions.
Students will be able to identify and describe various
gas laws. |
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| Charles Law |
Gasses |
This activity is designed to have students demonstrate
their understanding of the relationship between volume
and temperature, commonly called Charles’ Law |
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| Thermodynamics |
Thermodynamics |
This activity is designed to support the study of thermodynamics
and the flow of energy. This activity will follow an experiment
where the student designs and manufactures a cold pack. |
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| Atomic Radii |
Periodic Table and Trends |
In this activity students use data of the atomic radii
of the first 36 elements to construct a graph and interpret
any trends(s) based on a computer generated graph. |
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| The Octet rule |
Orbital Diagrams |
Students use ChemSense to learn that atoms bond in such
a way to obtain 8 valence electrons. |
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| Structural formulas and Lewis dot structures |
Orbital Diagrams |
Students practice translating between structural formulas
and Lewis dot structures. Students are introduced to double
and triple bonds. |
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| Orbital Diagrams |
Orbital Diagrams |
This activity is designed to provide a systematic way
for students to represent the electron configuration for
the element boron. |
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| Lewis Dots and Molecular Shapes |
Orbital Diagrams |
In this activity students practice drawing Lewis dot
structures and predict molecular shapes using ChemSense. |
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| Molecular structures |
Bonding |
Students begin to understand the rationale for molecular
structures, using the HONC 1234 rule that indicates the
number of bonds that each element typically forms. |
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| Valance electrons and bonding |
Bonding |
Students relate lines representing bonds in structural
formulas to dots representing valence electrons in Lewis
dot structures. |
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| Hybridization |
Bonding |
In this activity students create models for the hybridization
of carbon’s orbitals. |
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| Ion Formation |
Bonding |
This activity is designed as a summative assessment
to test the student’s understanding of the formation
of ions through the gain or loss of electrons. |
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| Sharing is Caring |
Bonding |
In this activity students use ChemSense to review and
practice covalent bonding of molecular compounds. |
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| Sharing VS Stealing |
Bonding |
In this activity students use ChemSense to identify
compounds as either primarily ionic or primarily covalent
by recognizing patterns among the properties of various
chemicals. |
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| Water Wiggles |
Bonding |
Students learn the relationship between kinetic/potential
energy of the structure of water as it experiences phase
changes from solid through melting, and from melting through
boiling. |
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| The "Not So Big Picture" |
Molecular Forces |
In this activity students use ChemSense to visualize
and understand intermolecular forces. |
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| Holding It Together |
Molecular Forces |
In this activity students use their knowledge of molecular
shape and polarity to recognize the interaction between
molecules (intermolecular forces), use investigative laboratory
experience to interpret evaporations at the molecular
level, and investigate the correlation between strength
of intermolecular forces and the rate of evaporation/magnitude
of the temperature change during evaporation. |
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| Players in the Game |
Molecular Forces |
In this activity students use ChemSense to observe
and recognize molecules as three-dimensional structures. |
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| Tug of War |
Polarity |
In this activity students use ChemSense to understand
and visualize a model for bond polarity in molecules. |
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| Whose Team Are You On Anyways? |
Polarity |
In this activity students use ChemSense to use knowledge
of molecular shape and bond polarity to determine molecular
polarity |
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| Crystal Violet Kinetics |
Rates of Reaction and Kinetics |
This activity is designed to follow a kinetics experiment
where students have seen a chemical reaction that changes
concentration over time. The students will demonstrate
their understanding of the chemical reaction by designing
an animation that shows a solution’s color diminishing
over time. The animation should be displayed in split-screen,
a rate-curve and the color change for the same reaction. |
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| Acid-base dissociation |
Acid-Base |
The student will use the Arrhenius concept to represent
acids and bases as they dissociate and release hydrogen
and hydroxide ions. The student will create an animation
that illustrates the dissociation of acids and bases to
release hydrogen and hydroxide ions. |
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| Neutralization of a base by an acid |
Acid-Base |
In Part 1 the student will perform an acid-base titration
to calculate the concentration of the base and record
the pH data for use during Part 2, the ChemSense animation
of the reaction. |
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| Electrochemical Cell |
Electro Chemistry |
Students create models of an electrochemical cell. |
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| Identification of functional groups |
Organic |
Students learn to identify four common functional groups
in small organic molecules. |
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| Ester synthesis lab |
Organic |
Students perform an ester synthesis lab experiment and
use ChemSense to predict the structure of the product
formed and model the reaction process. |
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