Advanced Chemistry Through Inquiry
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The following is a complete list of lab activities from PASCO's Advanced Chemistry Through Inquiry Teacher Guide. Each activity includes an editable student handout and information about its alignment with IB/AP standards. The experiments in this manual can be performed using individual PASCO sensors, sensor bundles, or Lab Stations. You may view the materials list for an activity by previewing the attached student handout.
Grade Level: Advanced Placement
Subject: Chemistry
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Activities
01) Modeling Chemistry
In this lab, students use temperature, pH, and conductivity sensors to explore chemical and physical changes and analyze them for ambiguity. This lab helps students improve their understanding of sensors and representing reactions at the particulate level.
02A) Light, Color, And Concentration
In this lab, students use a colorimeter to learn how to use visible light to determine the concentration of colored ion species in a solution.
02B) Light, Color, and Concentration
In this lab, students use a spectrometer to learn how to use visible light to determine the concentration of colored ion species in a solution.
03) Gravimetric Analysis
In this lab, students use a balance and the Solubility Rules to identify an unknown alkali metal carbonate.
04) Stoichiometry Of Solutions
In this lab, students use a drop counter, conductivity sensor, and a temperature sensor to determine the concentration of dissolved ions by titration.
05) Polar And Nonpolar Substances
In this lab, students use a pH sensor to learn how a compound's structure influences its solubility in water and oil.
06) Solubility
In this lab, students use a conductivity sensor and the mass of a dissolved solute to determine the saturation concentration of a compound.
07A) Empirical Formula
In this lab, students use a colorimeter and stoichiometric calculations to obtain the chemical formula of a compound.
07B) Empirical Formula
In this lab, students use a spectrometer and stoichiometric calculations to obtain the chemical formula of a compound.
08) Measuring Vitamin C - Redox Titration
In this lab, students use an oxidation reduction potential probe to expand their understanding of titrations, carry out a redox titration, and then use the redox titration method to answer a question of their own design.
09) Factors That Affect Reaction Rate
In this lab. students use a pressure sensor and temperature sensor to explore several variables that affect the rate of a chemical reaction.
10A) Measuring The Speed Of A Reaction
Students use a colorimeter sensor to determine the order of a reaction and the effect of variables on the reaction rate.
10B) Measuring The Speed Of A Reaction
Students use a spectrometer to determine the order of a reaction and the effect of variables on the reaction rate.
11) Energy In Chemical Reactions
Students use a temperature sensor to demonstrate that the heat q is dependent on reaction conditions but the change in enthalpy is a constant quantity.
12A) Chemical Equilibrium
Students use the results of a colorimeter and a temperature sensor to control the direction of a reversible chemical reaction.
12B) Chemical Equilibrium
Students use the results of a spectrometer and a temperature sensor to control the direction of a reversible chemical reaction.
13) Shape Of Titration Curves
Students use a pH Sensor and drop counter to determine the fundamental shape of a titration curve and the parameters that can cause it to change.
14) Weak Acid Titration
In this lab, students will use a drop counter and pH sensor to titrate monoprotic and polyprotic weak acids. Then they'll determine the relationship between the shapes of the curves and Ka.
15) Introduction To Buffers
In this lab, students use a pH sensor to create and analyze a buffer system.
16) Buffer Properties
In this lab, students use a pH sensor to analyze the nature of buffers as they prepare buffer solutions of a specified pH and test their efficacy.
17) Moving Electrons
In this lab, students use a voltage–current sensor to electrolyze a variety of aqueous solutions to determine the relationship between current, electric charge, and quantity of electrons.
