Resources for Educators

The following is a game designed to help engage students in their understanding of protein importance, function, synthesis, structure, and molecular make-up.
http://cpima.stanford.edu/education/files/2008/07/lesson-on-proteins-paynter.pdf

This series of lessons is a series of mini-labs to explain natural resonance and frequency. The students use measures of known masses to try to determine the mass of an unknown.
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This lesson plan compares how Stanford Graduate students and high school students use the Scientific Method and how they adapt it over time to meet their research needs.
http://cpima.stanford.edu/education/files/2008/07/reginapetersonetp1.pdf

The chemistry content that is used in this lesson concerns heats of reaction, activation energy diagrams, and Gibbs Free Energy. The students will use and study these concepts in the context of the use of hydrogen in vehicles.
Metals and Hydrogen Cars

This lesson gives students a visual and friendly introduction to safety in a high school chemistry classroom. The goal is to make the students aware of the importance of conducting safe science experiments.
Safety First, Fun Second

This series of lessons extends student understanding of electrochemistry and the photoelectric effect, demonstrate a practical application of electrochemistry and the photoelectric effect, and introduce students to a proposed alternate energy source.
Hydrogen-Powered Cars

Students learn about carbon nanotubes by reading background information. They then demonstrate hands-on learning by using manipulatives. Next, they are asked to search for examples of the different types of carbon nanotube geometries by using the internet. This exercise will introduce students to some of the unique characteristics of this area of polymer chemistryAn Introduction […]

A unique opportunity for students to participate in Stanford University research in the study of the folding of proteins through a screen saver on their computer. Standards relating to organic chemistry and biochemistry are taught in a real research environment and through accompanying web pages.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/education/Teacher.html

With given background information on hot wire chemical vapor deposition (HWCVD), student teams answer questions and demonstrate hands on learning through the use of manipulatives. This unit should be used as an end of semester project/lesson to evaluate students’ knowledge and understanding of chemical nomenclature, the periodic table, chemical bonding, the mole, gas laws, stoichiometry […]

This lesson plan makes students more aware of polymers and the chemical make-up of polymers in our lives. It also introduces them to the phenomenon of out-gassing and shows how that phenomenon can be both hazardous and helpful.
Lesson Plan