The book Chemistry on a Budget contains inexpensive chemistry labs that are useful with easy to obtain materials.
The early labs include the topics of Significant Figures, Density (3 labs), the Separation of a Mixture (including coverage of Percent Composition), and Liquid Chromatography. These are safe labs that cover essential information, giving you time to emphasize Lab Safety and get Lab Safety Contracts signed.
There are two versions of each lab, one with a ten-question conclusion and one with directions for a full lab report. This way the teacher has the option! Each lab is two pages to allow for one two-sided handout.
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*Some of you have already purchased my lab book – be sure to check out Page 141 !
Mole Day is October 23 (10/23) – this year it’s on a Sunday. You may want to start introducing Mole math before or after that date.
Past Mole posts include:
01/10/2014 2nd Entry (Mole Conversions
and Moletown Map)
10/15/2015 Mole Mathematics
10/20/2014 Celebrating Mole Day
There are several labs in the book Chemistry on a Budget including “Catching Moles,” “Moles in Your Name?” and beginning Stoichiometry with “A Chemical Reaction”.
I have posted about Moles before, but here are some useful overviews of The Mole Concept (I hope not repeats):
http://www.kentchemistry.com/links/GasLaws/Mole.htm
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-was-avogadros-number/
Here are some Mole Day activities:
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/students/highschool/chemistryclubs/activities/mole-day.html
*This Blog contains several entries that would be helpful to your chemistry classroom. Check out the Topic List to help you to find past Blog entries.
Also, Write To Me about your successes, challenges, or questions in the Chemistry Classroom.
Remember, buying a copy of the lab book Chemistry on a Budget can be very useful to your Chemistry classroom with labs and class article ideas.
Have a great weekend!