Friday, May 8, 2015

Unit 9: Acids & Bases

Litmus Joke to get you started...

Student Drawing to Summarize Acids and Bases

Coke Cans in Acids and Bases - WOW "Brilliant" Aluminium! Ewwww. Very Exothermic...

Annoying yet catchy tune...
"Acids and Bases Have Two Different Faces"

PhET Simulation: Acid-Base Solutions
click the link:
http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/acid-base-solutions

Testing Acids and Bases on Litmus Paper
See REAL tests...

GAME: Acids and Bases Juice Bar
Click the link:
http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/static/scienceview/scienceview.berkeley.edu/html/showcase/flash/juicebar.html

GAME: Work out how Acidic and Basic Substances Are
Click the link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/science/chemical_material_behaviour/ph_experiment/activity/

PhET Simulation: pH Scale
click the link:
http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/ph-scale

Steve Spangler COOL SCIENCE EXPERIMENT:
Milk of Magnesia

In Classroom Demonstration:
Buffered and Unbuffered Solutions

Acid Mine Drainage and Precipitates

Environmental scientists explore how acid drainage from abandon coal mines affects the pH of water and deposits harmful metal precipitates in streams.

Click the link:

http://www.ket.org/education/video/watersolutions/acmdprecipitate.htm

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Unit 8: Chemical Reactions

Keep watching! The 2nd chemical reaction is very dramatic!

Chemical Reaction - Mr. Parr's Song

Online Flashcard... Study the Key Terms for Unit 8!

PhET Balancing Simulation!
Click the link to Run or Download
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/balancing-chemical-equations

Khan Academy: Balancing Chemical Equations

A beginner's guide to Balancing Equations

How to Balance Chemical Equations

Explanation of Activation Energy

See what an Endothermic Reaction can do!

Very short video --
See what an Exothermic Reaction can do!

COMBUSTION! Igniting Methane bubbles in the air!

Explanation of Electrolytes

Spontaneous Reaction

Types of Chemical Reactions

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Unit 7: Bonds

How Water Dissolves Salt (no sound but good image!)

Song: Its a Family Thing! (Alkanes, Alkenes, Alkynes, and functional groups)

Electronic Configuration & Position of Element in the PT

Dogs Teaching Chemistry!! - Chemical Bonds

How to Easily Name Ionic Compounds

Atomic Bonding Song

The Ionic Bond Song

How to Draw Lewis Structures: Five Easy Steps

SIMULATION!: Building Molecules with Lewis Dot Structures
Click the link >>> http://chemsite.lsrhs.net/bonding/flashLewis.html

The Chemical Bonds Song! - Animated - Mr. Edmunds

Metallic Bonding Annimation
Click this link >>> http://cd1.edb.hkedcity.net/cd/science/chemistry/resource/animations/metallic_bond/metallic.html

Hydrogen Bonding: The Awakening of Water Girl: Melting of Ice

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Unit 6: Mixtures

Mixtures - Explained by 2 cool dudes :)

Khan Academy Video
Suspensions, colloids and solutions: The difference between Molarity and Molality.

Separating Mixtures Interactive Lesson
Click the link below to start the lesson:
http://www.mheducation.ca/school/applets/bcscience7/mixtures/bcscience7_mixtures.swf

Mr. Parr: Separating Mixtures

Mr. Edwards: The solutions song

Mr. Duell: Types of Mixtures (screencast lesson)

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Unit 5: Elements

Meet the Elements song

Hunting the Elements! (PBS video, about 2 hours long)

Program Description:
Where do nature’s building blocks, called the elements, come from? They’re the hidden ingredients of everything in our world, from the carbon in our bodies to the metals in our smartphones. To unlock their secrets, David Pogue, the lively host of NOVA’s popular "Making Stuff" series and technology correspondent of The New York Times, spins viewers through the world of weird, extreme chemistry: the strongest acids, the deadliest poisons, the universe’s most abundant elements, and the rarest of the rare—substances cooked up in atom smashers that flicker into existence for only fractions of a second.

Click on this link (not the picture below) to watch the video:
http://video.pbs.org/video/2217713569

Element Song (Fast and Fun!)

Online Interactive Periodic Table
http://www.ptable.com/

Periodic Table that has a link to a video for EACH element:
http://www.periodicvideos.com/

The Periodic Table of COMIC BOOKS!!
http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/

How elements are formed:

Rapping the Elements

Friday, February 20, 2015

Unit 4: Atoms

A Joke to get you started
An electron is speeding down the road, and gets pulled over by a cop.
The cop asks, "Do you have any idea how fast you were going?"
"Yes," the election replies, "but I haven't the slightest clue where I am!"

Ever Wonder How Elements are Formed?

Do you like Country music or need a good laugh? Check out this song about fission and fusion

Radioactivity explained with animation:

Quarks: Inside the Atom

Quarks and leptons for beginners (Only the first 1min 45sec is important)

Quarks: Standard Model of Particle Physics

Gold Foil Experiment Animation links:
Click the link:
http://www.mhhe.com/physsci/chemistry/essentialchemistry/flash/ruther14.swf

Click the link:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/electromag/java/rutherford/

Powers of Ten (magnification of the universe by powers of 10... this is very POWERFUL!!)
Click the link:
http://www.micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html

Read about The Scanning Tunneling Microscope
Click the link:
http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/physics/microscopes/scanning/

Now check out some pictures that were taken with this microscope!
Click the link:
http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/physics/microscopes/scanning/gallery/index.html

PhET: Build an Atom Simulator!
Click the link:
http://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/build-an-atom/latest/build-an-atom_en.html