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Tag: chemistry
How much support do you need to teach high school chemistry?
I loved chemistry in high school. I may be weird, but I liked balancing equations and figuring out just how to mix things just right. However, as I got closer to high school I started worrying about teaching high school chemistry. I like the subject, but I don’t KNOW the subject, enter Apologia Chemistry. That’s…
Science labs for high school
Y’all my kids are in high school and I’ve discovered science labs are much more difficult than our labs in elementary and middle school. Elementary science lessons were easy, “Go grab the baking soda and the vinegar, and let’s go!” Now I need actual equipment for our science labs, and I can’t complete science lessons…
How to make a battery
Last year we studied physics, and some of our physics experiments felt a little more like chemistry. I didn’t really mind this because I felt we had missed out on a lot of opportunities when we studied chemistry. This time we were looking at how to make a battery using pennies, aluminum foil, and paper…
Can you cross the Oobleck Ocean?
A few years ago we studied astronomy (check out our astronomy lessons), and at the end of it all we had a Life in Space Unit, and one of the activities I somehow forgot to write about all those years ago was crossing the Oobleck Ocean. This is a super fun and messy STEM project,…
Wow your kids with a bubbly chemistry lesson
“Plop plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is.” It’s been over 20 years since I saw that commercial, but I can still hear the tune in my head. As we studied chemistry, and we hit the ionic bonds lesson for our science lessons the commercial popped back into my head. Alka seltzer tablets…