Acid Rain What a Pain!

by Marilyn Alswede and Audrey Gonzalez

Introduction
Anchor Video
Concept Map
Project Calendar
Lesson Plans
Letter to Parents
Assessments
Resources
Modifications
Grant

Text Resources

Annotated Teacher’s Edition, Modern Chemistry. Austin: Holt Rinehart and
Winston, p. 493- 503.

ChemFile Lab Program Experiment Book Page 71

Chemistry: Visualizing Matter Technology Edition Publisher Holt Chapter15

Laboratory Experiments- Holt ChemFile Lab Program p. 81-86

Modern Chemistry Texas Edition Publisher Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
Chapter 15

Stanitski, Conrad L., et al., Chemistry in Context: Applying Chemistry to Society, 3rd ed.,
Boston: Mc Graw Hill, 2000.  229-263.

Web Resources

Acid Rain and Plant Growth
http://devacaf.caes.uga.edu/main/lessonPlan/acidRainPlantGrowth.pdf

Acid Rain Simulation Investigation
http://www.pasco.com/experiments/chemistry/may_2002/

Antacid Effectiveness Investigation
http://www.pasco.com/experiments/chemistry/april_2002/

Pictures
http://www.scienceacross.org/media/acidrainstatueed.jpg

http://acidrain2004.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/acid_rain_statue.jpg

Titration Simulation:

http://www.chem.iastate.edu/group/Greenbowe/sections/projectfolder/flashfiles/stoichiometry/acid_base.html

Supplies

Introduction to Acid/Base Chemistry

  • Whole Milk
  • Lemon Juice
  • Colander
  • Cheesecloth
  • Saucepan
  • Graduated Cylinder
  • Spatula
  • Salt and Herbs
  • pH indicator paper
  • Thermometer
  • Hot plate or stove
  • Blank Overhead
  • 10 buckets of water labeled H+ (be sure not to fill the buckets too full)
  • Hanging signs to go around students necks: Two Sides: H2O and H3O+
  • Molecular ball and stick model
  • Copy of oxyacid naming table on an overhead

pH Scale

  • pH meter
  • graphing calculator
  • Lab Pro
  • 11 cups
  • pH indicator paper strips
  • color key for indicator paper
  • Squeeze Squirt Bottle
  • Student Lab Exercise worksheet
  • Test tube
  • Ammonia
  • Vinegar
  • Phenolphthalein Indicator
  • Plastic pipette
  • 10 storage bottles
  • 10 unknown solutions
  • Distilled Water

Titrations

  • Baking soda
  • Vinegar
  • Two 250 mL beaker
  • Two 50 mL beaker.
  • Methyl Red
  • HCl
  • NaOH
  • 1 Computer per pair of students
  • 0.500M HCl
  •  50 mL burets
  • Three 100 mL beakers
  • 125 mL Erlenmeyer flask
  • Double buret clamp
  • NaOH solution of unknown molarity
  • Phenolphthalein indicator
  • Ring stand
  • Wash bottle

Acid Rain, What a Pain

  • Computers
  • Methyl orange indicator
  • 2 Matches
  • 2 Glasses
  • 2 Watch glasses
  • 1 Splint
  • Distilled water
  • 2 Blue tacks
  • 4 cups or jars
  • distilled water
  • pH paper
  • vinegar
  • baking soda/ammonia
  • measuring cups
  • stirring spoon
  • cuttings of a philodendron plant (1 leaf and small amount of stem)
  • cuttings of a begonia or coleus plant (1 leaf and small amount of stem)