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W W NORTON AND COMPANY Chemconnections Activity Workbook by Sharon Anthony Kevin L Braun Heather Mernitz
The ChemConnections activities-grown out of the popular ChemConnections modules-are each in the context of environmental and societal issues that are interesting to both faculty and students. These activities, influenced by chemistry education research, are written with attention to pedagogy and student learning styles. Faculty will be able to use a variety of activity styles including data analysis, labs, worksheets, and discovery. Activity 1: What Am I Eating? Activity 2: How Do We Convert between the Units Used in Environmental Science? Activity 3: How Does Oxygen Get to My Muscles? Activity 4: Laboratory: How Can We Separate Plastics for Recycling? Activity 5: What Gives Fireworks Their Brilliance? Activity 6: What Are Sources and Sinks of Greenhouse Gases? Activity 7: How Is Acid Rain Formed? Activity 8: What Are Your Personal Contributions to Carbon Dioxide Emissions? Activity 9: How Much Do Your Daily Activities Contribute to Greenhouse Gas Concentrations? Activity 10: How Much Product Will My Reaction Yield? Activity 11: What Is in My Blood? Activity 12: How Can a Standard Curve Be Used to Monitor Phosphate in the Environment? Activity 13: Laboratory: How Can We Group Household Chemicals Using Probes? Activity 14: What Can Titration Tell Me about My Food? Activity 15: What Reduction-Oxidation Reactions Happen in Nature? Activity 16: How Is Copper Processed? Activity 17: How Much Heat Is Released upon Fuel Combustion? Activity 18: Laboratory: How Much Energy Is in My Food? Activity 19: How Can I Calculate the Energy Content of Fuels? Activity 20: How Does an Automobile Engine Convert Heat to Work? Activity 21: Laboratory: How Do Power Plants and Automobile Emissions Affect Lakes? Activity 22: What Is the Mass of Air? Activity 23: How Do the Gas Laws Affect My Outdoor Experience? Activity 24: How Can We Predict the Light Produced by Hot Objects? Activity 25: Can We Identify Unknown Plastics Using Infrared Spectroscopy? Activity 26: What Is a Greenhouse Gas? Activity 27: Laboratory: Why Do We Need Ozone? Activity 28: What Are the Shapes of the Greenhouse Gas Molecules? Activity 29: What Are the Shapes of Molecules in Paper and Plastic Bags? Activity 30: From Pesticides to Vitamins: Water Soluble or Fat Soluble? Activity 31: What Is the Difference between a Fat and an Oil? Activity 32: Laboratory: How Can We Make Oil and Water Mix? Activity 33: How Can We Identify Metals? Activity 34: How Would You Design an Incandescent (Blackbody-Emitting) Bulb? Activity 35: How Does the Electrical Resistance of a Material Depend on Its Shape and Temperature? Activity 36: How Do Chemists Represent Large Molecules Found in Foods and Plastics? Activity 37: What Functional Groups Are in Foods? Activity 38: How Are Fats Formed? Activity 39: How Are Nylon and Polyester Formed? Activity 40: How Do Hot and Cold Packs Work? Activity 41: How Do Automobile Emissions Contribute to Air Pollution? Activity 42: Which Reactions Are Most Responsible for the Antarctic Ozone Hole? Activity 43: Why Is More Ozone Produced in the Stratosphere? Activity 44: Why Is Chlorine an Efficient Ozone Destroyer? Activity 45: What Happens to the Carbon Dioxide We Emit? Activity 46: How Do Chemical Systems Respond to Stress? Activity 47: How Does Engine Temperature Affect CO and NOx Production?Activity 48: Laboratory: How Can Used Fryer Oil Be Turned into Fuel? Activity 49: What Is the pH of Household Chemicals? Activity 50: What Chemicals Contribute to the Natural Acidity of Rainwater? Activity 51: What Are the Buffer Systems in Your Body that Keep You Alive? Activity 52: Laboratory: How Does Cation Exchange Work? Activity 53: What Controls the Properties of Elements? Activity 54: What Are the Building Blocks of Life? Activity 55: How Does a Nuclear Reactor Work? Activity 56: When Did You Live? Activity 57: What Do the Data Tell Us about Climate Change? Activity 58: Laboratory: How Is Copper Extracted from Ore? Activity 59: Laboratory: How Is Aqueous Copper Purified and Concentrated?