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Looking for a Halloween Chemistry Station Lab with a variety of new and exciting chemistry?! This activity has it all! Virtual and non-lab options for each station too! Did you know some candy is actually coated with bug secretions? How about that the original tin man in the Wizard of Oz was actually hospitalized because his makeup was toxic? Did you know bat migration has been studied using isotope ratios? I bet your students didn't either! This Halloween Chemistry gives students all kin

Balancing chemical equations is easy with this hands-on approach using blocks (or ANY materials as manipulatives) to model molecules and compounds. This resource is a great way for students to master conservation of mass and learn how to balance chemical equations by adding molecules or compounds and why we can NOT add individual atoms and change subscripts. 30 balancing equations task cards are provided in three sets of 10 for students to work their way through, modeling chemical compounds us

Use this Thanksgiving chemistry game for a fun lesson right before the holiday. An unknown casualty has fallen victim to a common Thanksgiving ailment. Can you determine their identity, the malady that afflicts them and the location of the dinner feast? Similar to traditional mystery games solved using clues, “Thanksgiving Chemystery Clues” contains quirky chemistry, biology and fun facts about Turkey, Black Friday and the History of the first Thanksgiving all rolled into a fun game for the cla

This hands-on way to writing nuclear decay equations will help your students learn how to predict the products of nuclear decay reactions while learning about some common uses of radioactive isotopes! This is a great resource to add to your nuclear chemistry unit. Students will be interested to see where radioactive isotopes pop up in everyday life (besides medical imaging). Lightning rods, smoke detectors, and radioactive glazes for glassware are all included plus 9 other examples of radioact

The classic Beanium and Candium lab for average atomic mass chemistry just got a little easier with this colorful and visual resource. This hands-on approach to learning about how to find the average atomic mass of an element is both fun and easy to follow. Students will find the average atomic mass of beanium or candium, a new element just discovered, by using a sample that you provide. This resource walks students through how to find relative abundance and average atomic mass of isotopes usi

This hands-on approach to learning about why isotopes are stable is both engaging and great graphing review! Students will graph isotopes using their neutron to proton ratio. They will identify the Band of Stability and use process guided inquiry to answer questions about why students need a certain neutron to proton ratio to be stable. Nuclear force is covered in the introduction. Students then graph additional stable isotopes as well as unstable isotopes. They use what they have learned

This hands-on approach to learning about the chemistry of isotopes is both engaging and great graphing review! Using models of ice core layers from the Vostok research station in Antarctica, students will study the composition of ice core layers, measure the ratio of oxygen-18 to oxygen-16, measure the abundance of greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane and correlate the isotopic ratio to climate patterns. This activity features modeling, graphing, graphical analysis and critical thinki

This Force and Motion project based learning resource is the perfect way to have some Halloween fun in your Physical Science class while reinforcing Newton's Laws and exploring balanced and unbalanced forces. This activity reviews the different types of common forces (Gravitational, Normal, Friction, Push, Pull, Buoyant, etc.) and how to draw free body diagrams with students. Students are then asked to complete the free body diagrams for 12 different Halloween themed characters and items maki

This hands on activity for radiometric dating of REAL historic artifacts is a GREAT way for your students to learn more about nuclear chemistry, radioactive decay, half-life, and real-world applications of isotopes. Students will use models of isotope samples (colored paperclips or the materials of your choice) to find the ratios of parent to daughter isotopes. They will calculate the age of real-life historical finds using the ratio of isotopes in the sample, graph of radioactive decay and the

This is a fun Chemistry or Physical Science activity to do for Valentine's Day in your classroom! Included in this resource are my free printable Chemistry Valentine's Day Cards in addition to a mini lesson on polarity and "like dissolves like". This activity is PRINT AND GO OR you can choose to have students complete the little lab activity. Included in this resource is a link to a video about chewing gum and chocolate together. The gum will "magically" disappear. The video introduces stude

The classic Pennium or Candium half life lab for nuclear chemistry just got a little easier with this colorful and visual resource. This hands-on approach to learning about how to find the half-life of an element is both fun and easy to follow. Perfect for both high school and middle school science! Students will find the half-life of a newly discovered element using a sample that you provide. This resource walks students through how to identify the parent and daughter isotopes of a radioacti

This is a process guided inquiry resource that will introduce your students to nuclear decay and changes to the nucleus of an atom when radioactive isotopes decay. Each type of nuclear decay (alpha, beta, gamma, positron/beta positive, and electron capture) has both a guided inquiry assignment to help students understand the process that occurs and the changes that happen in the nucleus as well as a check for understanding using a modeling assignment. You can use whatever materials you have a

This chemistry worksheet will help students practice how to identify ions versus isotopes by asking for the element, isotopic notation, mass number, atomic number and the number of subatomic particles (protons, neutrons and electrons) in a neutral atom AND in charged ions using the clues provided. If it is an ion, students must indicate the charge. This worksheet is the second in a series of chemistry worksheets. Perfect for homework, review or classwork this chemistry worksheet includes a com

This Christmas Chemistry Sugar Lab is fun and interesting for all students. Looking for a low prep activity to do for a Chemistry or Forensic science class right before Christmas break? This is the perfect Christmas Chemistry lab to do right before break! The only materials required for this lab are sugar, water and some basic glassware and heating elements! The reindeer have broken into the candy lab at the North Pole and have eaten the directions for heating sugar solutions! Students wi

Looking for a Halloween activity to do in chemistry class this Halloween? These Halloween Chemistry Demos will catch your student's attention and amaze them with your magical chemistry powers! Hold your students accountable during demonstrations! Included are 14 Halloween Chemistry demos with student cards that ask your students to answer questions about each demonstration. Walk your students through the questions or have them complete independently. Each card also has an answer key. The ch

Looking for a fun and engaging holiday activity to do right before Christmas break this year in your physical science class? Look no further than this hands on STEM engineering design challenge! There are three versions of this challenge included in this download (See below). Students use the design process to create a package or container in each that protects a chip, candy cane or egg (a holiday twist on the classic egg drop). 1. Ship the Chip: A holiday twist on this classic engineering d

This chemistry worksheet will help students practice completing a decay series and writing nuclear decay equations using alpha and beta decay. Students will use an isotope bank and a series of decay equations to determine the products in the neptunium decay series. They then answer questions relating to alternative paths of decay and why some isotopes that are found as intermediaries in the decay chain continue to decay. Finally, students look at the half life of americium and the alpha decay

This chemistry resource includes a fun mini lab using the Whack a Pack Valentine's day treats found at stores like Dollar Tree and Walmart. The chemistry of the whack a pack will be used to guide students through a set of stoichiometric calculations. This is a fun and engaging way to practice stoichiometry or review with a holiday theme! Students will use their Whack a a Pack to generate data on the mass of carbon dioxide formed during the reaction of citric acid and sodium bicarbonate. They

Looking for a FREE print and go Chemistry activity for Valentine's Day? Look no further! These 18 printable Valentine's Day Cards are perfect for your classroom. Your students will get a kick out of the funny sayings and clipart. Instructions and a blank template are included for students to get creative and write their own science themed Valentine's Day card. Perfect for a short 10-20 minute activity around the holiday. Black and White version included for students to color their own. Yo

Engage students in a hands-on, phenomenon-based chemistry lab that brings the electromagnetic spectrum, electrons, and emission spectra to life through interactive modeling and real-world data analysis. In this activity, students explore the fictional universe of " Molaris" by creating emission spectra for unknown elements, then apply their understanding to determine the chemical composition of stars in the "Spectralis system". Using chemistry manipulatives and visual spectra models,