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Subtopic: Chemical Change

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Resource	Grade Level	Media Type
Acid Rock WebQuest Acid Mine Drainage and Its Impact on Water Quality	9-12	Lesson Plan
Acids and Bases: Cabbage Juice Indicator In this video segment, the ZOOM cast demonstrates how to use cabbage juice to find out if a solution is an acid or a base.	3-8	QuickTime Video
Acids and Bases: Kitchen Chemistry In this interactive activity from the ZOOM Web site, search for chemistry clues and experiment with acids and bases in a virtual kitchen.	3-8	Flash Interactive
Acids and Bases: Testing Rocket Cars In this ZOOM video segment, cast members make bottle rocket cars using lemon juice and baking soda, and experiment with different ways of launching the cars.	3-8	QuickTime Video
Acids and Bases: Testing Rockets What happens when you mix baking soda and lemon juice? Watch the ZOOM cast launch a rocket using kitchen chemistry.	3-8	QuickTime Video
Anatomy of a Firework There's more to a fireworks display than meets the eye. This interactive activity from the NOVA Web site looks at the technology behind each burst of light.	6-12	Flash Interactive
Capturing Carbon In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, a scientist, inspired by his daughter's science fair project, develops a synthetic "tree" to remove excess carbon dioxide from the air.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Carbon Cycle Diagram This diagram from NASA's Earth Science Enterprise illustrates Earth's carbon cycle.	6-12	JPEG Image
The Chemistry of Makeup In this video from DragonflyTV, join Jazi and Danielle as they experiment with different combinations of everyday ingredients in order to create and test batches of lip gloss.	5-8	QuickTime Video
Cooking with Sugar Find out about the chemistry of candy and how sugar reacts at different temperatures to become fudge, caramel, lollipops, and more in this interactive activity adapted from the Exploratorium.	5-8	Flash Interactive
The Dating Game: Radioactive Carbon In this media-rich essay from the NOVA Web site, learn about the atomic structure of radioactive carbon and how it can be used to determine the age of organic remains, such as bones and teeth.	6-12	Shockwave Document
Dust Explosion In these videos adapted from the Journal of Chemical Education, observe how a material that is usually hard to ignite becomes very flammable when its particles are suspended in air.	6-12	Flash Interactive
Fireworks! Lifting Charge In this video segment adapted from NOVA, learn how pyrotechnicians use common compounds to blast fireworks into the sky and give them shape.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Fireworks! Making Color What gives a fireworks display its brilliant blue, green, and red colors? Learn how pyrotechnicians give fireworks color in this video segment adapted from NOVA.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Food or Fuel? The Chemistry and Efficiency of Producing Biodiesel	9-12	Lesson Plan
Fuel Cells In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, hydrogen fuel cell cars promise pollution-free driving, but will we see them anytime soon?	6-12	QuickTime Video
Gas Properties In this interactive simulation adapted from University of Colorado’s Physics Education Technology project, change parameters and discover how the properties of a gas vary in relation to each other.	6-12	Java Web Start Interactive
Global Warming and The Greenhouse Effect This video excerpt from Race to Save the Planet discusses the greenhouse effect and global warming.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Global Warming: Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect This video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE demonstrates the physical property of carbon dioxide that causes the greenhouse effect.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Global Warming: The Hydrogen Car Is the hydrogen car the answer to global warming? This video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE looks at the pros and cons of this developing technology.	3-12	QuickTime Video
Global Warming: The Physics of the Greenhouse Effect This video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE examines the greenhouse effect, its role in keeping Earth habitable, and the industrial changes that have led to an increase in the planet's average temperature.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Igniting Chemistry in Fireworks Students learn about the concepts of spectral chemistry, combustion, and the nature of fire through the use of visually rich fireworks resources. Optional resources address chemical reactions for those who want a more advanced chemistry lesson.	6-12	Lesson Plan
The Impact of Technology: Nylon This video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey looks at the invention of nylon.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Making Cortisone From Plants This video segment adapted from NOVA is a dramatized story of chemist Percy Julian’s work to synthesize cortisone. Find out how a biological process, not a chemical one, proved the key to producing cortisone in bulk.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Making Electricity at a Coal Burning Plant This video from KET traces the energy transformations that occur when coal is burned to produce electricity. Some of the mechanical processes are also described.	6-8	QuickTime Video
Name That Shell The way a firework shell is designed and assembled determines the shape and color of a firework display. Choose a video clip and try to identify each firework variety in this interactive activity from the NOVA Web site.	6-12	HTML Interactive
On Fire Learn about the chemical reactions that take place when things burn in this interactive activity from the NOVA Web site.	6-12	Flash Interactive
Penn State University Combustion Lab Tour In this video, a fuels science professor tours a Combustion Lab where a team is investigating renewable, advanced and clean burning fuels. Overall, the researchers are interested in power, emissions, and performance.	9-12	Flash Interactive
Periodic Table of the Elements This interactive periodic table developed for Teachers' Domain provides detailed information about the chemical properties of elements and illustrates the electron configurations that determine those characteristics.	6-12	Flash Interactive
Pyrotechnically Speaking Meet chemistry professor Dr. John Conkling in this interview from the NOVA Web site and learn why fireworks are his passion.	6-12	HTML Document
Radiometric Dating In this video segment from A Science Odyssey, scientists explain how Earth's age was determined by examining the radioactive rocks in Earth's crust.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Raising the pH Passive Treatment of Acid Mine Drainage	6-8	Lesson Plan
Snapshot of U.S. Energy Use This video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE looks at American energy consumption and the resulting production of greenhouse gases.	3-12	QuickTime Video
Using Salt to Melt Ice How can you pick up an ice cube with a string? Watch this video segment adapted from ZOOM to see how salt can help.	K-8	QuickTime Video
Your Carbon Diet Find out how much energy you use and some ways to conserve in this interactive activity from the NOVA/FRONTLINE Web site.	3-12	Shockwave Interactive