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Elephant Toothpaste Lab: Reaction Rate
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In this lab, students will try to make the best elephant toothpaste. They will test different variables to try to make a reaction that shoots up fast and produces lots of bubbles. You may want to introduce it showing a video of a particularly exciting reaction. I limit students to regular 3% hydrogen peroxide for safety reasons, so they won't have anything super dramatic, but they can produce a good result with the right combination of factors, and it is a fun challenge. It can be messy, I recommend having them put the graduated cylinders in the sink. This is a nice lab to apply concepts about factors that effect chemical reactions. I include a rubric and description of a short write up you can use, or you can just use the lab direction part on the first 2 pages.

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Elephant Toothpaste Lab: Reaction Rate

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In this lab, students will try to make the best elephant toothpaste. They will test different variables to try to make a reaction that shoots up fast and produces lots of bubbles. You may want to introduce it showing a video of a particularly exciting reaction. I limit students to regular 3% hydrogen peroxide for safety reasons, so they won't have anything super dramatic, but they can produce a good result with the right combination of factors, and it is a fun challenge. It can be messy, I recommend having them put the graduated cylinders in the sink. This is a nice lab to apply concepts about factors that effect chemical reactions. I include a rubric and description of a short write up you can use, or you can just use the lab direction part on the first 2 pages.

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NGSSHS-PS1-5
Apply scientific principles and evidence to provide an explanation about the effects of changing the temperature or concentration of the reacting particles on the rate at which a reaction occurs. Emphasis is on student reasoning that focuses on the number and energy of collisions between molecules. Assessment is limited to simple reactions in which there are only two reactants; evidence from temperature, concentration, and rate data; and qualitative relationships between rate and temperature.
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