atoms

Using Marie Curie’s 1911 Nobel Prize Lecture as its text, this module takes students directly to the substance of a key scientific discovery. It is designed to be used when teaching about atoms, their structure, and nuclear chemistry.

Using a famous text by an honored scientist, this...

Students explore the subject of antioxidants and their benefits to humans. Students research the reaction between antioxidants and free radicals and must decide how this reaction is related to basic chemical bonding. Students summarize their research in a 2-page paper.

In this task, students observe, compare, and explain the continuous spectrum produced by incandescent lights and the line spectrum produced by fluorescent lights.

They also use a simple diffraction grating slide to record the wavelengths of the hydrogen emission lines in the visible...