College / Chemistry

Kinetics: Reaction Order and Rate Constant

Students use a Wireless Pressure Sensor with included accessories and Chemvue software to determine...

College / Chemistry

Stoichiometry: Mole Relationships in Reactions

Students use a Wireless Conductivity Sensor and Chemvue software to determine the ideal ratio between...

College / Chemistry

Boyle's Law: The Gas Pressure-Volume Relationship

Students use a Wireless pressure sensor and Chemvue software to measure how the pressure of a fixed...

High School / ChemistryPhysics

Radioactive Decay and Half-Life

Students measure the counts coming from a sample of Ba - 137m with a Geiger counter. They answer questions about radioactive decay and half-life during...

High School / ChemistryPhysics

Types of Radiation

Students use a Geiger counter to measure the background radiation to calibrate the measurements of radiation source disks. They measure the count through...

College / ChemistryPhysics

Modeling Absorption of Radiation

Students use a Geiger counter to measure the radiation from a radioactive sample of Sr-90. They use the radiation absorption equation to predict the counts...

High School / ChemistryPhysics

Determining the Relationship Between Distance and Radiation Count

Students measure the radiation count rate as a function of distance. They use their measurements...

High School / Chemistry

Blockly Extension: Pressure Monitor

Students use a pressure sensor to determine the maximum pressure a stoppered container can hold and create code to warn users when pressure is approaching...

High School / Chemistry

Blockly Extension: Energy Flow

Students use a temperature sensor and Blockly code to sense temperature change within a system and report the direction of energy flow based on temperature...

High School / ChemistryPhysical Science

Blockly Extension: Types of Bonding

Students design code to determine whether a solid compound is ionic or covalent based on conductivity sensor measurements of aqueous solutions.

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