Acids and Bases

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AP Teach - Instructional Strategies to Teach Acids and Bases
// Thursday, May 28, 2026 • Shifra Yonis
This meeting focused on instructional strategies and classroom resources designed to strengthen student understanding of chemistry concepts through modeling, discussion, and hands-on learning. Presenters shared activities and lesson structures that encourage students to analyze data, construct explanations, and make connections between symbolic chemistry, particle-level models, and real-world phenomena.
Multicolored experiment
Solution to Chemical Mystery #19: Multi-colored Mixture
// Sunday, February 6, 2022 • Tom Kuntzleman
In Chemical Mystery #19,1 a yellow liquid is poured into a test tube, and the liquid turns red. When a white sold is added to the red liquid in the test tube, the liquid turns blue.
Coke and Mentos Color Changes
Color Changing Coke and Mentos
// Wednesday, September 2, 2020 • Tom Kuntzleman
If you know me, you know that I love the Diet Coke and Mentos reaction. It’s so simple to carry out, but yields incredible results! Just drop a few Mentos candies into a bottle of a carbonated beverage and watch the magic take place! See video 1.
Do you have a favorite acid-base titration lab?
// Saturday, March 11, 2017 • Allison Tarvin
HCl and NaOH, a strong acid - strong base titration? Citric acid and NaOH, a weak, triprotic acid - strong base titration? Do your students standardize the NaOH solution as a first step?