Drinking Dinosaur Pee?!
It has been claimed that because all water ultimately ends up in the water cycle, we drink water that the dinosaurs peed out. What does chemistry have to say about this assertion?
It has been claimed that because all water ultimately ends up in the water cycle, we drink water that the dinosaurs peed out. What does chemistry have to say about this assertion?
Try out this though-provoking capstone demonstration for the Chemical Reactions unit!
The floating soap bubble is an impressive experiment that is surprisingly easy to carry out.
Learn the chemistry behind the reaction between calcium carbide and water...melon...?!
Diffusion of HCl(g) from concentrated solutions of HCl can be used to illustrate some chemistry related to the train accident in Ohio.
Nora Walsh outlines the interactive notebook pages she uses for her unit on REACTIONS. All of the documents and foldables are available for download.
Learn a bit about the chemical reactions that occur during a lightning strike, and how you can demonstrate these reactions in your classroom.
Yvonne Clifford shares tips and ideas for making your high school chemistry course both interesting and rigorous.
Can you use your knowledge of chemistry to figure out what is going on in Chemical Mystery #19?
This is a simple small-scale distillation that can be used several different ways.