Demonstrations and Experiments

• Access Excellence Collection
  An archive of the favorite classroom activities submitted by high school biology and life sciences teachers participating in the Access Excellence program. This resource is hard to resist including, although few experiments actually deal with chemistry.
• Biochemistry Teaching Resources
  These pages, by Barry Ganong of Mansfield University, contain descriptions for a series of instructive, workable, and low-cost laboratory exercises for both non-major and major (bio)chemistry students. Titles such as "Surfactant Properties", "Making Soap", "River Water Analysis", "Oxidation Reactions", "Properties of Lipids", and "Carbohydrate Analysis" indicate that these experiments should be useful in many other settings.
• Chemical Demonstrations Page
  While this link is keyed to the texts and courses used in the general chemistry program of Brigham Young University, it's also designed to be friendly to anyone looking for ideas to help support their lectures in chemistry, at all levels of education.
• Chemistry Animation Project
  The Chemistry Animation Project presents CAPseries, a collection of multimedia products for use in high school and introductory college chemistry classrooms. Animated using state-of-the-art computer hardware and software, each product offers insight into chemical phenomena for teachers and pupil alike, with intuitive 3-D models and computer-calculated accuracy. Under the direction of Professor Nathan S. Lewis, CAP is chemistry for students by students.
• Chemistry Demonstration Instructions
  Instructions are given for four different demonstration for first and second grade classrooms. Topics include Chromatography (separation of the dyes in felt pens), "Gak Splat"- (a polymerization reaction producing "slime"), Lemon Juice as Invisible Ink, and the Alka Seltzer Rocket.
• Chemistry Teaching
  Some demonstrations in Quicktime movie format, including "An exploding flour can", "An oscillating clock reaction", and "The Orange Tornado". (Before you click: The files are 3.2 to 11.6 MB!)
• Detection of Alu by PCR
  A Human DNA Fingerprinting Lab Protocol by 1994 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, DNA Learning Center.
• Equilibrium Dialysis Experiment
  This is an interactive computer simulation of an equilibrium dialysis experiment performed to study the chemical properties of antibody molecules. The experiment is discussed briefly in most current textbooks for college upper level and first year medical school courses in immunology.
• Kemilärarnas Resurscentrum
  Inspirationskälla för kemilärare. Kemilärarnas Resurscentrum ger lärarfortbildningar och hjälper kemilärare som behöver en "nytändning".
• Luminol Chemiluminescence
  Recipe for generating chemiluminescence from 3-aminophthalhydrazide (luminol).
• Science is Fun
  The master of chemical demonstrations, Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, shares the fun through videos and books.

• ICE Forum by Thread
  This hypermail archive relating to the Institute for Chemical Education (ICE) "Guidebooks of K-12 Activities" might prove useful to users of these cellulose-mediated chemistry experiment descriptions.

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