(#11) Oxidation
How is a burning candle like a breathing person? Both use fuel to produce heat; both consume oxygen; both produce carbon dioxide and water vapor. Oxidation enables your students to discover underlying chemical unity among physical phenomena that appear quite different - between things that burn, things that breathe - and things that rust. They'll balance chemical equations, experimentally determine the percentage of oxygen in room air, even burn iron. Do your students need a chemistry lab to perform wonderful experiments like these? Not with TOPS. Beyond test tubes, everything runs on common household items and kitchen chemicals.
(#11) OXIDATION is part of our Self-Directing Task Card Series. It is a 48 page soft-bound book organized into three main parts:
INTRODUCTION
* A TOPS Model for Effective Science Teaching * Getting Ready * Gathering
Materials * Sequencing Task Cards * Long Range Objectives * Review / Test
Questions
TEACHING NOTES (16 lessons)
* Candle Combustion * Human Respiration * I Feel Faint * Bottom Burner *
It's a Gas * Limewater Reaction * Three Little Jars * Chemical Overview *
Glowing Splint * Iron Rusts * Percent Oxygen? * Does Iron Burn? *
Chemistry Puzzle * What's Your Hypothesis? * Reproducible Results? *
Isopropyl Investigation
REPRODUCIBLE LINE MASTERS
* 16 Open-Ended Task Cards
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(#11) OXIDATION requires no lab equipment other than test tubes and graduated cylinders. Just photocopy the 16 task cards, gather simple materials (like birthday candles, steel wool, baking soda and vinegar) and you're ready to explore TOPS Learning Systems hands-on.
GRADE RANGE: 6-10
ORIGINS: written by Ron Marson / illustrated by Peg Marson / copyrighted
in 1995
by TOPS Learning Systems / ISBN 0-941008-81-9
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#11 Oxidation @ $8.00
#SS110 100 mL Graduated Cylinder @ $4.25
