Silicon Valley High School Chemistry Lab Kit

Silicon Valley High School Chemistry Lab Kit

This Chemistry Lab Kit is customized for Silicon Valley High School.

The laboratory portion of a chemistry class can be a concern for teachers with limited lab facilities. This includes teachers in private schools, public schools, charter schools, and home schools. This manual and the accompanying kit are an effort to help solve this problem. The laboratory exercises have been designed with three goals in mind: educational challenge, safety, and convenience for the teacher.

This kit, intended for the laboratory portion of the course, is based on the microscale method. This relatively new approach to chemistry gives students a lab experience as good as or better than the usual methods, but uses about 1/100th of the chemicals. The experiments are much safer and disposal much easier.

The chemical solutions are pre-mixed and in dropping bottles that give constant drop size. This eliminates the need to mix solutions, greatly reduces spills, and reduces set-up time to a few minutes. The only chemicals not in the kit are sugar, table salt, and vinegar.

The Labs:

1. Paper Chromatography

2. Properties of a Group in the Periodic Table

3. Atomic Orbital Models

4. Hybridization of Orbitals

5. Electrical Conductivity

6. Decomposition

7. Double Replacement Reaction

8. Analysis of Hydrates

9. Mole Ratios

10. Boyle’s Law

11. Charles’ Law

12. Melting Points

13. Freezing Point Depression

14. Enthalpy of Ice

15. Reaction Rates, Concentration

16. Reaction Rates, Temperature

17. Solubility Product Constant

18. pH and pH Indicators

19. Titration

20. Molar Mass by Titration

21. Buffers

22. Oxidation-Reduction