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Sergio Arroyo Corcoran High School |
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Larry Boyle La Mirada High School |
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Shannon Bunch University High School |
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Stephen Cossel Skyline High School |
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Sandra Costello Mark Keppel High School |
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Sheila Glenore Centennial High School |
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Harold Goldston The Webb Schools |
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Eric Gregory Montebello High School |
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Norita Jaeger Tustin High School |
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Blessing Mupanduki Christian School of the Desert (Desert Christian High School) |
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Rosa Nagaishi Foshay Learning Center High School |
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Gordon Owens Santiago High School |
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Laurie Pertile Beaumont High School |
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Sean Phi Loara High School |
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Michael Rea Linfield Christian School |
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Vickie Reid Borah High School |
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Jenaya Rockman Maranatha High School |
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Michael Rodriguez La Mirada High School |
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Albi Romero Winward School |
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Aaron Sams Los Altos High School |
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1 | Egg Osmometer (fresh egg in vinegar to remove shell, place in Karo Syrup and watch egg shrink, place in deionized water and watch it swell... be careful of rotting egg). |
2 | Graph of Ionization Energies, Cut it up, overlap, and see trends. |
3 | Contact the Department of Energy (Where? Steve?) to get a free geiger counter |
4 | F.Y.I. Memo from UCLA about how they treat students who take the exam (with 1 or 2) vs. students who do not take the exam. |
5 | Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream |
6 | Use half/half instead of creamer... and definitely NOT powdered creamer... oops. |
7 | Explore using wax coating on ornaments instead of tape. Melt it off with hot water. |
8 | Info is available from the Educational Testing Service about how my AP chemistry students do topic by topic. Find out whether we are getting this information at school somewhere or whether it has to be ordered and paid for extra. |
9 | Tutoraid.com is a listserv in which student's questions are answered by Oxford and Stanford professors (and Steve!) |
10 | Remember to Contact ACS for doorprizes... they have Mole Day tattoos and those 22.4 L beach balls! |
11 | Find and order "Atom Bond" video. |
12 | Find and order "People Who Took Chemistry, That's Who" |
13 | Try filling a flask with NH3 gas by adding a few drops of concentrated ammonia and placing on a hot plate for 30-40 seconds. I still need a hood... maybe I can set up an inverted funnel with an aspirator to take away the fumes. These individiual flasks of ammonia gas can be used by students individually inverted into hot and cold water to show solubility, hydrogen bonding, etc. |
14 | Buy that Flinn Scientific triple point gas apparatus ($40). The classroom activity can augment the individual activity and you can actually measure the pressure and relate it to the triple point on the CO2 phase diagram. |
15 | Course Crystal Rock Salt can be cleaved with a razor blade and the handle of a screwdriver... the weight of the handle is the cleaving force. Start with a flat-sided crystal. |
16 | Try making cabbage juice in the blender with isopropyl alcohol rather than water. Maybe it will last without smelling so bad. However, it is fun to make the juice right in front of the students every period and the smell gets them to clean up quickly. |
17 | Do the conductivity titration with barium hydroxide and sulfuric acid (1 M each). A little universal indicator in the flask lets students see the endpoint in two different ways. |
18 | Huclkeberry Finn... Oh... I get it... H Cl Br FIN O |
19 | M _ _ k _ _ base. _ c m _ _ u _ _ p (u=mu... micro) |
20 | Use ungalvanized nails for Fe in electrochemistry lab. |
21 | Try using a hole drill for the ROYGBV demonstrators, or visit a print shop to see what they can do. Brass cork borer is too soft. |
22 | Vickie suggests a great web site to show Dalton's Law... check out her links to find the site. |
23 | D&S Marketing has books of questions that are written to be done WITHOUT a calculator. |
24 | Purchase transfer pipettes... using those in lab were much better than our typical graduated cylinder transfers. |
25 | Killer Hot Dogs Munch Dead Cat Meat. |