electrochemical cells

A salesman knocks at your door, selling home water distillers.  

In this post, I’m sharing the materials I created for an electrochemistry mini-unit that I used in my AP Chemistry interactive notebook. It’s important to note that you do not need to do interactive notebooking with your students to find some or all of these materials useful. I have included the following:

I have always wanted to try the mercury beating heart experiment, in which a drop of liquid mercury is made to throb like a beating heart.¹ However, I have never conducted this experiment due to the issues associated with mercury toxicity.

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Deanna Cullen, Scott Milam, Doug Ragan, and I recently published an article, Rapid Formation of Copper Patinas: A Simple Chemical Demonstration of Why the Statue of Liberty Is Green, in the Journal of Chemical Education¹ that describes how to create a blue-green

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When I was searching for activities to help my students understand and visualize the workings of a galvanic cell, I stumbled across the Target Inquiry activity called "The Energizer Lab" that has students consider the particulate, symbolic and macroscopic levels of an el

Did you know there is a simple test you can do to see if an alkaline battery is fresh or dead?^1,2 All you need to do is bounce the bottom of a battery onto a hard, flat surface. If the battery is fresh it won’t bounce very well. If the battery is dead, it will bounce very high. Check it out in the video.³

This year my state adopted our version of NGSS and as a result I have shifted the design of each unit of my curriculum to allow for more student questions and curiosities to drive the instructional flow.