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This is a great hands on activity to practice the vocabulary for the Scientific Method. It also takes very little material, very little if any clean up, and is very engaging and fun for your students. You need different types of paper to accomplish this lab that is all. ( computer, construction, notebook, card stock or other types) Covers Observation, Qualitative, Quantitative, Hypothesis, Experiment, Independent variables, dependent variables, Control variables, Intervening variables. Could be

This is a great, easy activity to practice balancing chemical reactions. It is also great if you haven't been able to show a lot of cool reactions in the classroom this gives them some visuals of cool reactions. I usually go to the hyperlink for the students and show the videos of the reactions to the class and talk through what is happening. It would be a great assignment for them to do on their own as well though or even a sub assignment. They would need access to the internet though to watch

This lab uses easy cheap materials you probably already have and reviews, mol to mol, mol to gram, and gram to gram problems with one limiting reactant question at the end. I used it to review at the end of my unit in chemistry. Easy to set up but brings the point home!

I used this activity right after I taught the history of atomic structure. It really made it more apparent how amazing the scientists were that developed atomic theory because they had to design experiments for things they could not see. You will need several boxes to complete this activity any size you want but able to fit items inside and tape them shut. For myself I put numbers on the bottom of the boxes and made a key for what I put inside the boxes. I started by just letting them hold the b