Scientific Method:
- Observation
- Research
- Hypothesis
- Experiment
- Analysis
- Conclusion
- Write-up
Importance of Measurement
- Repeat measurements, find average, discuss differences
- metric S.I. units
Chemistry Skills and Concepts:
What is Matter?- Atom, Molecule, Compound, Mixtures
Phases and Phase Changes.
- Solids, Liquids, Gases
- Melting, Evaporating, Condensing, Freezing, Sublimating, Deposition (make icecream)
- non-Newtonian liquids
Ions and Salts
- test solutions for salts and identify anions and cations
Acid-base
- aging apples
- baking soda and vinegar
- bath bombs
- Red Cabbage indicator juice
- balloon over bottle with vinegar and baking soda
- penny cleaning
- mentos and diet coke
- egg-dye solutions
- acid rain - https://www.teachengineering.org/activities/view/cub_earth_lesson5_activity2
Separation
- chromatography (t-shirt/sharpie, coffee filter/marker)
- density column
- based on electric charge (salt and pepper, hydrolysis )
Other
- elephant toothpaste (H2O2 with yeast)
- polymers (make slime, bouncy balls, )
- kitchen science (make gummies, rock candy, fizzing sherbert, extract iron from cereal)
- buoyancy (predict if x will float)
