Are you a science teacher looking for videos to help your students understand chemical phenomena? How about some phenomena that are too dangerous to try at home? Look at what the learning architects at HMH dug up! Explore some amazing science experiments where scientists are mixing dangerous chemicals, toying with severe heat and cold, and blowing things up. Each extreme experiment explores a different phenomena and not only shows the experiments, but gives insight into why it works. Take a look, and DO NOT TRY THESE AT HOME!
Extreme Chemistry Experiments
If you like these videos, stay tuned for our next installment with more extreme chemistry experiments. And teachers, we've provided a chart that lists all of the experiments below and what topics they relate to. We also connect them to specific lessons of Science Dimensions Chemistry, California Chemistry in the Earth System, and Modern Chemistry.
Boil It Till It Freezes
Topics covered: triple point, boiling, freezing, equilibrium vapor pressure
Candy Fireball
Topics covered: combustion reaction, redox reaction, decomposition, flame test
Fire and Ice
Topics covered: combustion reaction
Hydrogen Explosion
Topics covered: combustion, activation energy, reaction rates, stoichiometry
Lights Out
Topics covered: combustion reaction, "weight" of CO2 gases
Oscillating Iodine Clock
Topics covered: reaction rates, equilibrium
Presto Color Change-O
Topics covered: redox reaction, electron strength
Supersize That Burner
Topics covered: combustion, stoichiometry
Thermite
Topics covered: single displacement, activation energy, exothermic reaction
Vacuum Pump Extravaganza
Topics covered: Boyle's Law, pressure
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These videos were dug up from our archives, but at HMH, we are always looking for solutions to turn today’s students into tomorrow’s innovators. To learn more, visit hmhco.com/science.
