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High School Chemistry PDA

The following content is from the Chemistry for All PDA with Tom Hsu. The investigations for each day are listed along with associated files. Each file is downloadable individually; however, the following zip file contains all availabale files and also includes additional supporting files.

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Monday

File name: Chem08Monday.pdf
Topics: Chemistry, Matter, Energy, and Atoms
Investigations:

  • Inquiry and Scientific Evidence
  • Working with Chemistry
  • Air is matter and has mass
  • Difference between heat and temperature
  • The specific heat of steel
  • The heat of fusion of ice
  • Phase changes of water melting > boiling > condensation
  • Distillation as a physical process
  • Using molecular simulation to understand phase changes
  • Using molecular simulation to visualize the importance of hydrogen bonding

Tuesday

File name: Chem08Tuesday.pdf
Additional Files:

Topics: Absorption, Colors, and the Atom
Investigations:

  • Absorption
  • Oxidizers and Colors
  • Inside the Atom
  • Valence
  • Periodic Table Riddles
  • Nuclear Reactions
  • The Chemical Formula
  • Conservation of Mass

Wednesday

File name: Chem08Wednesday.pdf
Additional files:

Topics: Dilutions, Acids and Bases, Electrochemical Cells
Investigations:

  • One in a Million
  • Acids and Bases

Thursday

File name: Chem08Thursday.pdf
Additional files:

Topics: Dilutions, Acids and Bases, Electrochemical Cells
Investigations:

  • The Lemon Battery
  • Electrochemical Cell: The Battery

Friday

File name: Chem08Friday.pdf
Additional files:

Topics: Respiration, DNA, Proteins

  • Respiration and Temperature
  • DNA and Proteins