I have developed lessons designed primarily for middle and high school students in science. These labs have been classroom tested for many years. Awards 2007-2005 Professional Learning Grant from the Waltham Chamber of Commerce 2001, and my name is on Mars 2001 Mars Rover for my contributions to NASA educational system.
I have developed lessons designed primarily for middle and high school students in science. These labs have been classroom tested for many years. Awards 2007-2005 Professional Learning Grant from the Waltham Chamber of Commerce 2001, and my name is on Mars 2001 Mars Rover for my contributions to NASA educational system.
Cellular Respiration
This is an excellent lesson especially for a sub. We all know that most subs do not know AP biology so this is an excellent lesson to give to them A must have to get your students ready for the AP Placement Tests All the key terms for this unit are listed with an complete answer key at the end.
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Key Terms
Multiple Choice
Activity using Legos
Complete answer key with explanations given
Crossword puzzle
Answer key explains why it is the correct answer.
Written in red ink to make it easier for you to grade
https://youtube.com/shorts/kApX7dhe1nQ?si=ydSD_dSxAc5WbEocKeep your middle school students engaged with this engaging lesson. It includes an easy to read summary, 3 labs and questions to teach students about this important chemistry lesson. The answer key has the correct responses in red to make it easier for the teacher. A must to have lesson for every teacher of basic chemistry.
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What is better the one lab about electricity- two labs!
Did you know that the citric acid found in lemons can interact with metals to generate electricity? This lesson explores the similarities between batteries and common household items
Great resource for Earth Day to teach about making electric
Students will discover the importance of electrolytes and how they contribute to the generation of electrical currents in batteries.
At the completion of this product students will be able to identify that energy can be produced by chemical sources.
Lab 1
Lemon Battery
The citric acid in lemons can react with metals, creating electricity? This lab explores into the commonalities between batteries and lemons.
By performing this lab, students will learn about electrolytes and the vital role they play in the creation of electrical currents from batteries.
Lab 2
Penny Flashlight
Instruct students on the fundamental principles of electrical cells. They will have the opportunity to create their own functional batteries and use them to power a light-emitting diode (LED). The materials for this activity are provided.
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Engineering Challenge
Are you in search of an engaging, interactive STEM activity that promotes critical thinking? Look no further! Download this resource to present the challenge to your students.
Using water as a medium, this fantastic STEM project for kids involves designing a boat constructed solely from straws and tape. Test how many items it can support before it sinks, allowing students to learn about basic physics while honing their engineering skills.
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This straw boat engineering challenge is not only straightforward and enjoyable, but it also provides a captivating way to explore physics and density.
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Readings
Lab with detailed instructions
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Written in word so you can easily make changes for your class!
Protect the egg!!! **
The first lesson aims to inspire your students through an exciting STEM challenge: they will design and construct a car for the grumpy Humpy Dumpty! Their designs must adhere to Newton’s Three Laws of Motion. Students will thoroughly enjoy exploring how mass and force influence motion in this captivating and informative STEM project.
Using Newton’s Laws of Motion, Engineering Design Processes, students will design, build and test a car made of materials selected by you to protect their egg when the car crashes into the wall!
Racing to Measure
If you send a toy car down a ramp at what ramp angle will the car travel the farthest when it hits the ground? Use your protractor and your tape measure to find out.
Start by setting up a series of ramps at different angles. Make sure each ramp is securely positioned to ensure accurate and repeatable results. Measure and record the angle of each ramp using your protractor.
Next, release the toy car from the top of each ramp and let it travel down and off the end. Use your tape measure to record the distance the car travels from the end of the ramp to the point where it first contacts the ground. Repeat this process several times for each angle to ensure consistency and reliability in your measurements.
Analyze your data to determine which ramp angle allowed the toy car to travel the farthest distance. You may find that there is an optimal angle that provides the best balance of speed and trajectory for maximum travel distance. This experiment will help you understand the principles of physics, such as gravity, friction, and motion, that influence the car’s performance.
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Are you looking for fun labs to teach **Chemistry **and still celebrate Halloween. Here is your solution. This great and spook resource contains the following
Lab 1
Spooky Handprints-Great way to teach pH while your students are having fun
Lab 2
This is my favorite activity for the year. Have a mock witch hunt to teach your students to respect and have empathy for each other
Lab 3
Ghost Hunters -Students will become Ghost Busters in this activity.
Lab 4
Gelatin Heart-Review the state of gelatin with a reading and then explore the structure of a heart.
Answer key written in red to make it easier for you
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Are you looking for a fun way to teach your high school students chemical/p
This is created for AP Chemistry. It can also be used in an Advanced level Chemistry course, such as Honors .
The most engaging activity for the year is making Ivory Soap Art. The students really enjoy it and most go home to show their parents
NGSS
MS-PS1-4. Develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion
This product will make learning the difference between physical and chemical change fun
Learn the difference between reversible and irreversible changes along with physical and chemical reactions with these low prep lessons, activities, and assessments. Everything you need is included, and it will only take you moments to prep.
This engaging resource includes:
The first section is a guided reading
Ivory Soap Art
Frozen Egg
Open ended questions
Lab Station Activity
Are you looking for a lesson to introduce your AP Chemistry students to the wonderful world of organic chemistry. Here it is! Can be used as sub plans.
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Feel free to make any changes to suit your individual classes
This product contains 2 sections
Section 1
12 Multiple choice questions with answer key
Section 2
Ester Lab
Objective
Ensure that students understand the formation of esters from the reaction of carboxylic acids and alcohols.
Reactivity series of metals
Objective
Students will be able to identify and understand the reactivity series,
Your students will LOVE the reactivity series of metals lesson
Here is the ultimate lesson to teach this important concept. You can use this section as emergency sub plans!
The first section is multiple choice to get your students ready for the AP exam
Complete answer guide is given written in red to make it easier
The second section gives you details on how to have a speed dating activity in your class.
Quick set up and the students will love to celebrate St. Valentine’s Day in this fun activity to learn about ions.
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You can make any changes you wish
AP Chemistry Worksheet and Film Canister lab
This product is ideal for a stress-free substitute plan.
The first section contains thoughtfully chosen high-quality multiple-choice questions on Reaction Rate and Order, Rate Law Expression, and Factors Affecting Rates.
In the second section, there’s an engaging lab activity to calculate the rate of reaction using film canisters.
Are you in need of a quick lab experiment for your students to measure reaction rates? I have prepared one that can be completed in less than 55 minutes! This product includes a student lab sheet with detailed procedures. These resources are provided in WORD format, allowing for full customization
Looking for engaging activities to teach REDOX Oxidation and demonstrate how this chemical reaction gives off heat. Here it is. So complete that you can use it as no stress sub plans
This product is perfect to motivate your AP Chemistry Students!
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Low Prep
You can combine this lesson with the English department by using the poem by Robert Frost.
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3 Labs
Worksheet
Poem by Robert Frost
This lesson will work well with your English Department.
MATERIALS
Lab #1
Warm moist place
Fresh-cut hay, fallen leaves, or grass
Thermometers
Lab #2
Steel wool (not the soapy kind)
Jar
Water
Vinegar
Bleach
Thermometer
Lab #3
Apple
Lemon Juice
Knife
Lab #4 The Lollipop Lab
Potassium permanganate (KMnO4) crystals
Spherical lollipop containing glucose (or other reducing sugar, e.g. fructose)
3–4 sodium hydroxide (NaOH) pellets (approximately 0.5 g)
200 ml distilled water
250 ml conical flask or beaker (glass or plastic)
Spoon and spatula
Miniature electric whisk
Adhesive tape
Also included are key terms translated into Spanish to help ESL students
Total Pages
17 pages
Answer Key
Included
Teaching Duration
1 hour
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Worksheets
Assessment
Laboratory
Description
This is the product you have been looking for to teach Equilibrium K. This resource is written in word, so you can make changes for your students
Complete instructions for a Fun Halloween demo
Can be used as no stress sub plans-just print and go
Prepare your students for National Exams
After this lesson, students will be able to: define chemical equilibrium. explain equilibrium constant. write an equilibrium constant equation.
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Multiple choice (13)
Equilibrium Constant - Worksheet 1
Demo
Complete Answer Key
Description
Chemical Reactions - Reaction Rates and Equilibrium
Ideal for Emergency Sub Plan!
The perfect product to have on file to teach this important concept to AP Chemistry students and prepare them for national tests
It is written in word so feel free to make any changes to suit your individual classes. The lesson can be used as a sub plan, review, retest, and chapter test. I promise you will reuse it for years.
Terms students will learn
Enthalpy
Hydrolysis
Reaction rate
Entropy
Exothermic
Hess’s Law
Double Replacement
Solubility Rules, Precipitate, Multiple Choice Test
Are you searching for a product to teach all the basics of chemical reactions to This lesson to AP Chemistry or Honors Introductory Chemistry.
Here it is, just print and go. The product can be used even as emergency sub plans
Objectives
To deduce the experimental results, which combinations of ions form precipitates
To write a balanced formula equation for each reaction
To write a complete and a net ionic equation for each reaction
Included are several labs because not all teachers have access to all the chemicals they need to teach this lesson.
Section 1
Multiple choice questions to get your students ready for AP Exam *Sub Plans
Section 2
Double Replacement Lab
Section 3
Mini Labs 3 quick experiments
Section 4
Copper & Silver Nitrate Lab
Section 5
Magnesium and Oxygen
Section 6
Chemical Reaction Project *Sub Plans
Description
Really fun lab to teach Stoichiometry are hard to come by. In this product, your chemistry students will learn how to calculate the number of molar mass in cookies. They will use the limiting factor to determine their answer. Students will use the recipe to convert moles to grams for each ingredient in the cookie recipe
This lesson contains
Molecular Formula Table
Recipes are written in moles to convert to grams
Lab Data sheet
Detailed procedure instuctions
Conclusion questions
Word problems
Are you teaching how to name and write the formulas for compounds? You’ve got to check this out! Looking for a no-prep activity to help your students understand the naming rules of compounds? This is your answer.
Can be used for emergency sub plans
Objective
Students will understand a chemical formula identifies each constituent element by its chemical symbol and indicates the proportionate number of atoms of each element.
The first section is multiple choice questions to prepare your students for AP Exams
The second sections contains a classroom tested game which will make learning this difficult material fun
It is my belief that they really need to understand this unit before we go onto balancing equations from word formulas and predicting products in the next unit
The two units my students dislike most are atomic structure and bonding, which we teach first in my state. Do you struggle to make these two units more relevant and engaging to students? Here is your answer! This product can be used for sub plans. The answer key is written in red to make it easier for you
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The first section is a Multiple Choice Questions. They will prepare your students for the AP Exams. Written in word you can change them to suit your needs
The second section using Manipulatives for for practicing this concept. I have created a lesson using Fruit loops and pretzels to learn
In addition I have included 4 mini lessons to help motivate your students
Description
This terrific no prep AP Chemistry Worksheet contains a set of carefully selected high-quality multiple-choice questions on Atomic Structure and Electron Configuration. A great online resource to assign to your students for homework, classwork, practice, or review for a quiz, test, or exam. Can be used as emergency sub plans. Just print and go!
Written in word so you can easily tailor for your classwork
This lesson is aligned with the New AP Chemistry Course Framework.
This worksheet has 19 multiple choice questions
Topics
Atomic Theories and Structure of an Atom (19 questions)
Atomic Theories
Subatomic particles
Isotopes
Atomic structure & electron configuration
These questions are of a similar style to the College Board’s AP chemistry questions, but are not the same questions in AP Classroom. These are great to get your students practicing the content with high level questions that make them apply the knowledge. These are great for getting your students prepared for the AP exam.
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Are you looking for a fun way to start the school year right with safety rules. Look no further
This product will motivate your students to remember the important concepts to have a safe but learning environment in your classroom.
Included
Teacher Notes
Virtual Crossword Puzzle
A Lesson to have students write their own rules
Contact
Sponge Bob Group Activity
Research has proven that students will remember material if they are activity engaged in the production of it themselves. This is a general safety activity in which teacher s can use in all lab classes. Decorate your classroom with your students’ rules which they created themselves
The product is written in word so you can change it for your individual classroom.
STEM Geology Volcanoes Web Quest
Winner of Tom Synder Productions Scholastic as Monthly WebQuest.
Excellent as a Sub Plan or in the classroom!!!
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Award winning lesson plan
Teacher Page
2 Guided readings
Graphic Organizer
Additional ideas to teach
Objectives
Explain why volcanoes usually form near plate boundaries
Classify types of volcanoes
Describe the relationship between hot spots in the crust and volcanic island changes
This is a fun lesson for students to learn the dynamic nature of our earth. They will be amazed to discover how many active volcanoes are present in the world today
This challenge will help students to discover the relationship between volcanic eruptions and tectonic plate boundaries. Each student will research their own volcano and prepare a report and PowerPoint presentation.
Your students will discover that volcanic activity occurs as a result of the building up of enormous pressure at plate boundaries.