Dave Blackburn

The Candle Icebreaker part of MnSCU Partnership:PKAL-MnSCU Activities
Small groups of students examine a candle to consider its chemical properties. Class discussion follows to consider macro vs. molecular events, energy, phase changes, etc.

Limiting Reactants: Industrial Case Study part of Pedagogies of Engagement: Resource Collections:Cooperative Learning:Examples
An exercise in which students apply limiting reactants, mass ratios and percent yields to suggest an optimum industrial process. Cost figures are provided but students are told to come up with, and defend, their own criteria for their recommendation.

Acids and Bases part of MnSCU Partnership:PKAL-MnSCU Activities
Conceptual pH ranking activity