Vernier - Enzyme Action: Testing Catalase Activity
Students will use an O2 Gas Sensor to measure the amount of O2 produced when H2O2 is broken down by the enzyme catalase at different concentrations, pH values, and temperatures. They will also measure the enzyme's initial reaction rates.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--enzyme-action-testing-catalase-activity
Element to Number
This StudyCards™ stack enables students to practice associating an element's name to its chemical number.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/element-to-number
Element to Symbol
This StudyCards™ stack enables students to practice associating an element's name to its chemical symbol.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/element-to-symbol
Enthalpy of an Ion
Students will explore exothermic and endothermic reactions and create a classroom calorimeter to measure energy of a reaction.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/enthalpy-of-an-ion
The River of Life
In this activity, students compare human body mass with blood volume. They graph the data and build a regression model. They estimate their own blood volume and also predict volumes of blood for other animals.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-river-of-life_1
Finding the % salt in seawater
In this experiment, students are asked to collect data in order to prepare a calibration curve showing the relationship between the % of salt and the mass of salt water. Using this graph, students will be able to determine the concentration of salt in a sample of ocean water. The activity provid...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/finding-the--salt-in-seawater
Science TODAY™ - The USA's Expanding Weight Problem
This activity reveals the incidence of obesity in the United States. Students will analyze "The USA's expanding weight problem" and other data to construct a graph, analyze the trends in the data, and make predictions about the future.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/science-today--the-usas-expanding-weight-problem
Gas Laws introduction (Boyle's and Charle's Law)
The activity contains a simulation of Boyles law and Charles law.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/gas-laws-introduction-boyles-and-charles-law
Something's Fishy
In this activity, students examine the size, mass, and growth rates for three species of fish. They interpolate and extrapolate from best-fit models. Students compare the growth rates of endothermic and exothermic animals.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/somethings-fishy
What Does a Buffer Do?
Buffers are solutions that resist a change in pH. In this activity, students will add HCl dropwise to a measured amount of water, monitoring the pH. Students then repeat the process, using a simple buffer prepared by combining baking soda and tonic water. A comparison of the results will allow...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/what-does-a-buffer-do
Half-Life Lab
This activity explains how students use a CBL2 and TI-83 or TI-84 calculator to collect and calculate the half-life of a barium isotope. Students will use an isogenerator to milk out a meta stable isotope of Barium with a short half-life. Using a radiation monitor linked to a CBL2, students run...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/halflife-lab
The Bigger the Better?
In this activity, students calculate the surface area and volume of different shaped cell models. They develop an understanding of the differences in cells and their functionhttps://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-bigger--the-better
Symbol to Element
This StudyCards™stack enables students to practice associating the chemical symbol for an element to the element's name.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/symbol-to-element
Symbol to Number
This StudyCards™ stack enables students to practice associating an element's symbol to its chemical number.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/symbol-to-number
Vernier - Boiling Temperature of Water
In this activity, students will use an EasyTemp probe to measure the temperature of hot water and determine its boiling temperature. EasyData™ is needed for this activity.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--boiling-temperature-of-water
Vernier - Determining the Mole Ratios in a Chemical Reaction
Measure the enthalpy change of a series of reactions. Determine the stoichiometry of an oxidation-reduction reaction in which the reactants are known but the products are unknown.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--determining-the-mole-ratios-in-a-chemical-reaction
Common Polyatomic Ions
Students use StudyCards(tm) to practice naming formulas for ions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/common-polyatomic-ions
Determining Rates of reaction, orders, differntial rate law and the integral rate law.
This activity introduces average and instantaneous rates of reaction.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/determining-rates-of-reaction-orders-differntial-rate-law-and-the-integral-rate-law
Electrolysis of Water
Students will learn to write the half reactions that occur at each electrode during the electrolysis of water, performed in microscale using a 9V battery as a power source. In monitoring the pH at each electrode, studens will learn that H2 is accompanied by the formation of OH- ions and that H+ i...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/electrolysis-of-water
Chemical Elements Test
Students use StudyCards(tm) to practice naming elements.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/chemical-elements-test
Growing Babies
In this activity, students observe and graph data about human fetal growth rates. Students build a regression model based on the data and compare values with those of other mammals. They also compare the data to non-mammal species.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/growing-babies
Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow
In this activity, students will develop a method to graph a predator-prey population model. They will analyze the data and gain an understanding of populations dynamics.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/hare-today-gone-tomorrow_1
Is There a Limit?
In this activity, students examine data about bacteria and their growth. They produce a scatter plot, a best-fit model, and draw conclusions based on the data and graph.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/is-there-a-limit
Measuring Air Pressure
This activity is intended for my Introductory Meteorology class; an earth science elective intended for Juniors and Seniors. (It was orginally modifed from an Introductory Meteorology Laboratory Assigment taught to undergraduates at Florida State University. However, modifications could be done t...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/measuring-air-pressure
Vernier - Where IS North?
In this activity, students will use a Magnetic Field Sensor to measure the magnetic field of the Earth and to determine magnetic north. They will also calculate the magnetic inclination and declination at their location.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--where-is-north