Molar Gas Lab
Students use stoichiometry to determine the mass of oxygen gas in a bottle. They may also check their answer against the amount of potassium chloride produced during the reaction.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/molar-gas-lab
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
Vernier - Dissolved Oxygen
Students use the Dissolved Oxygen Probe to measure the concentration of dissolved oxygen in water from streams and rivers. They correlate the availability of dissolved oxygen to temperature, pressure, and salinity.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--dissolved-oxygen
Vernier - Conductimetric Titration and Gravimetric Determination of a Precipitate
Students use a Conductivity Probe to measure change in conductivity during a chemical reaction and determine the equivalence point of the reaction They determine the mass of the product and calculate the molar concentration of the reactant solution.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--conductimetric-titration-and-gravimetric-determination-of-a-precipitate
Vernier - Determine Concentration of a Solution: Beer's Law
Students will use a Vernier Colorimeter to determine the relationship between concentration and absorbance of nickel sulfate solution (Beer's law). They will then determine the concentration of a unknown sample using the standard curve.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--determine-concentration-of-a-solution-beers-law
Millikan Oil Drop Experiment Simulation
Students run a simulation on the TI-83+ or TI-84+ graphing calculator to perform a variation of the Millikan Oil Drop Experiment. The goal is to adjust the voltage across parallel plates until a droplet is suspended between the plates. The data can ba analyzed to determine the charge on the dro...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/millikan-oil-drop-experiment-simulation
Vernier - Evaporation and Intermolecular Attractions
Students will study temperature changes caused by the evaporation of alkenes and alcohols and relate this data to the strength of intermolecular forces of attraction. They will also predict, and then measure, the temperature change for other liquids.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--evaporation-and-intermolecular-attractions
Falling Down
In this activity, students' will determine the average speed of a falling object. They will observe whether or not changing the mass and keeping the same shape have an effect on the average speed of the object.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/falling-down
Simulation of the Photoelectric Effect for the TI-83+/TI-84+ Graphing Calculator
The simulation generates photoelectrons into a retarding potential difference. Students can adjust the retarding potential so that the kinetic energy of the photoelectrons can be found. With this information and the wavelength of the photon that generated the photoelectron, Planck's constant ca...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/simulation-of-the-photoelectric-effect-for-the-ti83ti84-graphing-calculator
Putting Things in Place
Students investigate the value of the digits in $8,205.50 and determine the number of thousands, hundreds, tens, ones and even the number of dimes and pennies. The concept is then extended to additional situations. They learn where to place a decimal when writing amounts of money and to perform a...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/putting-things-in-place
What's the Plan?
Students investigate area with nonstandard and standard units of measure. They work to plan a unique vegetable garden and calculate the costs of plants for the garden.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/whats-the-plan
Tints and Shades
Students solve a problem involving mixing of paint colors. They use color charts to determine the fractional parts and percentages of colors needed to create tints and shades.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/tints-and-shades
Weaving a Story
Students construct a paper weaving using a chart model. They will also learn skip counting with the TI-10 and recognize number patterns in art.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/weaving-a-story
The Ball and All of Its Energy
Students will collect data using a CBR-2 and a ball. The will create an Nspire document to analyze the energy of that toss. Students learn how to collect data, create documents and graphs to analyze data and understand the ideas of conservation of energy.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-ball-and-all-of-its-energy
Crunching Numbers
Students learn to build and add two digit numbers. They connect number words and numerals.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/crunching-numbers
Mean Machine
Students construct a function machine from a small box. Students use the calculator to discover functions. They create their own one-step and two-step function rules and turn their calculators into a function machine.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/mean-machine
Lifting a Lion
In this activity, students will practice solving a real-world problem. Using a toy lion and a lever, students first discover how much work is needed to raise a toy lion. They will then use proportions to determine the force needed to lift a real lion.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/lifting-a-lion
Let Me Count the Ways
Students will make predictions about the number of ways to make eleven with two or more addends. They will investigate patterns with these addends with the help of manipulatives and the calculator.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/let-me-count-the-ways
Food for Thought
Students learn to count in tens up to 100. They also learn to build 2-digit numbers.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/food-for-thought
Cereal Numbers
Students build numbers from zero to ten with cereal and connect the number name and numeral. Students also explore number sentences for numbers up to ten.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cereal-numbers
Bats Triangular
Students use manipulatives to construct a pyramid. The manipulative pyramid then becomes the basis students use to construct a pictorial representation of a pyramid. The TI-10 is used to show symbolic representation of students actions and also aids students in viewing the developing pattern.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/bats-triangular
Amazing Appetites
Students learn to count and solve original word problems. They learn to add by combining sets and subtract when removing the set. They use manipulatives to reflect the reasoning used in problem solving.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/amazing-appetites
Financial Calculations
Describes how to use the TI-89 to calculate interest, present worth, loan repayments and so forth. These methods utilize the time-value-of-money.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/financial-calculations
Marching Columns
Students investigate constructing arrangements of different numbers of manipulatives into equal groups. They learn to use mathematical language, identify patterns with numbers, recognize the commutative property, and transfer the arrangements made with manipulatives to grid paper.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/marching-columns
Box Plots
In this lesson, students plot the two extreme values (minimum and maximum), the lower quartile (LQ), upper quartile (UQ), and the median (a five-number summary) on a number line to create a graph called is a box plot.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/box-plots-bc