Jenison High School
October 6, 2004
1. Halloween Demonstrations “Melting” Styrofoam heads, Foaming Pumpkins, CO2
Crystal Ball, CO2 Leaky Faucet. (Alice Putti- Jenison High School)
2. Why Do Liquids Evaporate at Different Rates? Student activity on measuring the
rates that liquids evaporate (includes teacher notes as well). (Ellen Yezierski – GVSU)
3. Parent Open House Demonstrations – Demonstrations to perform for parents
during open house: Changing color of liquids, Iodine Clock, Water lock, Elephant
Toothpaste. (Kevin Corfixsen – Grandville High School)
4. Ideas for Mole Day Projects for Students – (Ben Lundquist and Ann LaRoche –
Grandville High School)
5. Mole Day Activity – Calculations for students to do on Mole Day. (Shelby Erskin
Seay- East Kentwood High School)
6. Analysis of Commercial Bleach – Lab experiment to calculate the Molarity of
commercial bleach as well as the mass percent of NaClO in bleach. (Shelby Erskin
Seay- East Kentwood High School).
7. Chemistry Demonstrations – Procedures for various demonstrations including:
color change, precipitate, magical eggs, popcorn mass, endothermic/exothermic
reactions, suspensions and colloids (Steve Vree- Cedar Springs High School)
8. Avogadro Goes to Court: http://www.sciencecases.org A “court case” that
challenges students to find the cost of a single Aluminum atom in a roll of aluminum
foil. (Doug Ragan- GVSU)
9. Oxidation States of Manganese – Demonstration to show students the different
oxidation states of Mn (Mn+7, Mn+6, Mn+4, Mn+2) (Brian McKenna and Jill
Truelove- Lee High School)
10. New Experimentation on the Wave Particle Duality from New Scientist, 24 July 2004
pg 35. www.americanscientist.org.( Brian McKenna and Jill Truelove- Lee High
School)
11. Chemistry Web Quest: www.wyoming.k12.mi.us Wyoming ParkÆ Stephanie
Rathsack. Topics include the periodic table, periodic trends, MSDS – Safety
(Stephanie Rathsack – Wyoming Park High School)
12. ChemSource: Understanding the Mole- Lab Activity:
http://chemmovies.unl.edu/chem_source_pdf/ChemSource.html (Sarah Toman)
13. Dominoes Conversion Lab – Using dominoes to help students understand how to
make metric conversions. (Anne Marie Willette- Saugatuck High School)
14. Penny Labs- A series of chemistry activities done at the beginning of the year, all
using pennies. Mass of pennies over time, Alchemy: Making a Gold Penny, Density
of Pennies, Percent Composition of Pennies. (Annette Dobrzynski- Jenison High
School)