The second installment of our (Re)Bootcamp includes three different examples of ways you can implement new approaches without having to redesign your entire curriculum.
Engage students in organic chemistry with a simple one-pot synthesis using the Mannich condensation reaction. This hands-on lab reinforces key concepts like reaction mechanisms, chromatography, and yield calculations, making abstract ideas tangible while building essential lab skills.
In this enrichment activity, students research elements to prove that their element is the most lethal of all in the March Madness Element Bracket.
This quick / low-prep stoichiometry lab helps students visualize why they must convert mass into moles before performing stoichiometry calculations.
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?
This activity allows for the simple and accurate determination of the heat of vaporization, ΔHvap, of water at 100°C, and ultimately the approximate strength of a hydrogen bond in boiling water, in kJ·mol–1.
Ariel Serkin shares an activity she has explored using natural acid base indicators with her food chemistry elective students.
This empowering activity provides students the opportunity to drive their own lab experience. It allows students to perform research, execute lab techniques and identify an unknown substance.
This lab guides students through taking data and constructing their own heating curve for water. It requires no special equipment, is low prep, is safe, and can even be done at home for homeschool or distance learning. Even though the lab activity itself is relatively simple and straightforward, the concepts still engage students in higher level thinking and gives them important practice with laboratory techniques and forming hypotheses.
Use a simple experiment to get to know students, demonstrate experimental design and discuss classroom policies about cell phones.
