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Home Chemistry

January 3, 2021 Kathy Ceceri
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Penny chemistry - Verdigris and copper plating  (Copy)

When my kids were teens, we began studying science with a focus on hands-on activities. Instead of lab reports, I had my kids help put together a blog post for each activity. You can still see those creaky old blog posts, but it’s hard to find the good stuff.

I’m working to update and post the best activities on this blog, as well as publish them in printable form in my Teachers Pay Teachers store. In the meantime, here are links to a few of my favorites. Enjoy!

  • Clean pennies and use them to coat steel paper clips in copper!

  • Find out how chemical hand warmers work!

  • Create salt crystal sculptures!

  • Dissolve jello by breaking its chemical bonds -- using pineapple!

  • Purify ordinary aspirin


And if you want to visit my old blogs, they’re here:

  • Home Chemistry

  • Home Biology

  • Home Physics

  • Integrated Science at Home

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