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Your Physics Pacing Guide for 3-Dimensional Teaching
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Your Chemistry Pacing Guide for 3-Dimensional Teaching
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Law of Conservation of Mass
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What's the Weakest Link? Helping AP® Chemistry Students Ask the Right Questions
AP® Chemistry: What’s the weakest link? Or play the chemistry dating game: Will they hook up or break up? Students develop an analysis plan for identifying bond types. Use our featured kit as a starting point for independent student research. See a sample student question sheet from this kit’s activities. View »
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Teaching Chemistry with Manipulatives
Manipulatives can help students (especially visual and tactile learners) understand abstract concepts by allowing them to “see” a chemical structure or process. We offer 2 ideas for creating manipulatives and how to use them. View »
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Molecular Geometry with Balloons
For some students, molecular geometry can be tricky to understand, but with this hands-on, engaging activity, it doesn’t have to be. View »
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What's the Big Idea? Understanding the Laboratory Experience in the AP* Chemistry Curriculum
If you teach AP* Chemistry, you’re already aware, or need to be, that changes to the course curriculum are here, which means you’ll probably have to change your classroom instruction. To help relieve your anxiety, here’s an overview of the course revisions, some important dates to remember, and 2 ways Carolina can help to ensure your success during this transition. View »
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Keep Calm and Chemistry On: Tips for the New Chemistry Teacher
Learn fresh ways to create interest in your chemistry lab. These easy, engaging, and safe activities are sure to produce a reaction from your students. Designed for the new teacher, but the experienced can find something useful, too. View »
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Density: An Intensive Property of Matter
In this investigation, students collect mass and volume data for different samples of the same audience and develop a formula for density based on slope calculations. View »
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Electron Configuration and Periodic Trends
In this activity, students analyze data patterns to identify trends found on the periodic table. They then relate the trends to atomic structure and electron arrangement. View »
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Periodic Table Mystery
P is less dense than S. S is an alkali metal. E is a noble gas. In this activity, students generate a periodic table from clues and predict the missing properties of several elements based on the elements’ locations in the table.
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More Paper Clip Chemistry
Who knew the common paper clip could be such a versatile teaching assistant? This activity uses several paper clip styles to help students understand empirical formulas and relative masses. View »
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Meet the 4 New Elements on the Periodic Table
Introduce students to the basics of how elements get their names with this brief article. View »
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A New Approach to Teaching Atomic Theory
For chemistry teacher Siobhan Julian, teaching the history of atomic theory by lecture “was dry and tedious and boring for everyone involved.” Then she took a fresh approach—one that focuses on doing science to learn science history. View »
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A Visual Introduction to Ionic and Net Ionic Equations
With this activity students explore the phenomenon of chemical precipitation and construct an atomic level model of precipitation using ionic and net ionic equations. View »
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