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Patterns of Reaction - Wins Single User Shipped in 7 days Cat.# MSC-12 $240.00 BUY

Patterns of Reaction is an ingenious chemical construction set that unlocks much of what students enjoy about chemistry. This novel tool allows them to piece together the acids and bases, the metals and metal oxides and to highlight many of the patterns in school chemistry.

Using a smart drag and drop interface, students assemble word equations, and match them to patterns like ‘acid + base = salt + water’. They can go further too. They can build symbol equations and have them checked ‘live’ against an intelligent database of 800 reactions. With no marking to do, and with activities so easy to set up, Patterns of Reaction offers plenty of practice in an entirely engaging way.

Students will learn:

• How the patterns of behaviour in chemistry allow us to make predictions about reactions;
• how to represent chemical reactions using word and symbol equations.

Teachers can:

• Ask students to start with a pattern such as ‘metal + acid -> hydrogen + water’. Then ask them to find as many examples of the pattern as they can.
• Similarly, ask students to find patterns that match the equations.
• Set out any number of incomplete or incorrect equations for the students to complete. Allow the tool to correct their answers live on screen. Ask students to copy these to paper if you wish.

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Rates of Reaction I - Wins Single User Shipped in 7 days Cat.# MSC-14 $240.00 BUY

Take a chemical reaction, add controls for concentration and temperature and the rest is pure collision theory. Students will not only see reactants colliding to form products, they follow the reaction’s progress on a graph. Record the reaction’s progress for each temperature. Add a catalyst, and even increase the activation energy in steps. A second simulation lets you change the surface area and shows particles colliding with large, medium and small chunks of reactant.

Students will learn:

• About altering rates of reactions by changing surface area, temperature, concentration or by adding a catalyst.
• How do these factors affect the collisions between particles?

Teachers can:

• Demonstrate the simulation to develop students’ understanding in conjunction with real experiments.
• Test a hypothesis - with this versatile simulation, you might choose almost any hypothesis for the students to examine. Ask them to experiment with the effect of concentration, temperature, surface area, the presence of a catalyst and even the effect of ‘activation energy’. With the simulation showing graphs and animation, your questions can be exploratory. For example, what happens if you use excess reactant? What is the best way of measuring the rate? Does every collision lead to a new product?
• Use the graph view to predict rates – increase the timescale to test your prediction.

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Rates of Reaction II - Wins Single User Shipped in 7 days Cat.# MSC-15 $240.00 BUY

With seven virtual experiments, Rates of Reaction II offers students an efficient environment in which they can follow up class practical work. Here, aided by the speed of changing variables, they can perform the intricate laboratory work that normal lesson time rarely permits.

But as they will discover, things are harder than they seem. With up to five variables per experiment, they will need to plan their investigation or risk arriving at a maze of results. They will find that some variables seem to have little effect, and more surprisingly that some virtual experiments work better than others. Like the very best experiments, questions like ‘what is happening?’ and ‘why?’ are very much part of this easy-to-use learning tool.

Students will learn:

• About the different rates at which reactions take place and how to investigate the effect of varying temperature, concentration, or changing the surface area of a solid reactant.
• How to plan and evaluate an investigation.

Teachers can:

• Ask students to plan and carry out an investigation into the rate of three different reactions.
• Ask students to evaluate different methods of investigating the same reaction.
• Use the tool to follow up experimental work and allow students to examine many more variables than is usual.
• Use another tool ‘Rates of Reaction’ to investigate the particle theory
  explanation of reacting chemicals.

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Understanding Reactions - Wins Single User Shipped in 7 days Cat.# MSC-18 $240.00 BUY

Understanding Reactions offers a bank of video, photographs and animation to support students’ first meeting with chemical reactions. Steering clear of chemical symbols, burning a candle, making iron sulphide and exploding hydrogen with oxygen are used as key evidence for chemical change. Further examples offer videos of copper oxide turning to metal and solid carbon dioxide turning to gas. Clear graphics illustrate changes at a particle level and show how atoms and molecules rearrange themselves. The animation reinforces understanding and provides the stimulus for discussion and the students’ activity.

Students will learn:

• About the difference between a physical and a chemical change and the importance of chemical change in everyday situations;
• that the constituents of mixtures are not combined and that elements combine through chemical reactions to form compounds.

Teachers can:

• Ask students to go to ‘A Candle’ where they will find three experiments. For each of these, ask them to explain what is happening and what the evidence tells them.
• Show the videos of methane burning. With the help of the animation, discuss how the particles in the elements and molecules combine. Ask students to do the same for copper oxide turning to metal and solid carbon dioxide turning to gas.
• Use Understanding Reactions with your own SlideShow to direct students very efficiently through the screens.
• The theme might be chemical reactions, physical vs. chemical changes or mixtures vs. compounds.
• Show that burning fossil fuels (methane) produces carbon dioxide.

Odyssey Interactive Chemistry - High School Edition - Wins Instructor Edition Shipped in 7 days Cat.# CYC-30 $380.00 BUY 5 Network Licence Shipped in 7 days Cat.# CYC-30N1 $890.00 BUY 10 Network Licence Shipped in 7 days Cat.# CYC-30N2 $1,450.00 BUY DOWNLOAD DEMO

ODYSSEY is a content-rich learning and simulation environment for molecular chemistry. Used in high school chemistry classes across the country, ODYSSEY uses the computer to “simulate” chemical behaviour at the molecular level. This state-of-the-art program with visually rich, scientifically sound, experiments offers teachers an exciting new way to engage students. Includes student-assignable worksheets!

• Advanced User Interface
• Interactive Simulations at Full Molecular Detail
• Stunning Molecular Visualization
• Open-ended Simulations
• Hundreds of Molecular Models
• Create New Experiments

INSTRUCTORS EDITION
Cutting edge teaching software with ready-to use chemistry experiments and student assignable worksheets. Includes annotated molecular stockroom and an easy-to-use model kit for building almost any chemical system. The new must-have tool for any science teacher who is interested in visualizing chemistry at the molecular level.

MOLECULAR STOCKROOM
ODYSSEY's Molecular Stockroom provides hundreds of pre-constructed samples of matter spanning a wide range of systems. Each entry allows for query of system properties, visualization in multiple model styles, and molecular simulation. The models can be used as the entry to a classroom demonstration or as starting content for new lab activities. The stockroom can be browsed by individual items or by category.

Categories represented include:

Elements, Inorganics, Organics, Solutions , Biological, Polymers

MODEL KITS
ODYSSEY's Model Kit contains a set of builders for Molecules, Solids, Organic Molecules, Peptides, and Nucleotides. These builders are similar to those in Wave function's Spartan, that is used by tens of thousands of students, instructors, and researchers world-wide.

The Model Kit enables the construction of almost any chemical system. This puts an open ended virtual laboratory at your fingertips. All constructed systems are available for simulation and exploration. Instead of having students learn about molecules in 2-D, utilize ODYSSEY's Model Kit and move into 3-dimentions.

PLOTS AND PROPERTIES
ODYSSEY allows a multitude of Properties to be measured. These may be correlated in a variety of plots.

• Snap Plots include recorded values 'posted' to the plot.
• Time Plots track any property as a function of time.
• List Plots represent data from a number of different samples.
• Histograms are available for the speed and kinetic energy distributions.

ODYSSEY can query a host of properties including density, number of molecules, electronegativity, molar mass, mass fraction, distances and angles, temperature, volume, pressure, kinetic energy, potential energy, atomic and molecular charges, dipole moments, speeds, collision frequencies, and number of hydrogen bonds. Several properties (volume, temperature, system composition) are user adjustable.

EXPERIMENTS
ODYSSEY provides instructors with 77 lab activities prepared and ready to use. Each experiment is designed to engage students in discovery-based learning. While experiments are developed for student use, they can also be utilized for classroom demonstrations. In total, more than 200 pages of chemistry content are included. Learners are provided with unparalleled visualization and simulation of matter at the molecular level.

More than 40 student assignable worksheets (each associated with an experiment) are also included.

EASILY CREATE YOUR OWN MODELS
In addition to a Molecular Stockroom of many hundreds of compounds, ODYSSEY also contains a set of model kits enabling instructors to construct almost any system imaginable. All ODYSSEY files (and the program itself) can be easily hyperlinked within Microsoft PowerPoint for use in classroom presentations.

EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS
Each ODYSSEY Experiment includes step-by-step instructions. All molecular samples are provided and system parameters and conditions have been preset in order to best carry out the experiment. Many experiments also include a worksheet with additional activities.

EXPERIMENT CATEGORIES:

• Chemical Matter (3)
• Gases (20)
• Acids and Bases (3)
• Thermochemistry (5)
• Liquids and Solids (14)
• Chemical Thermodynamics (3)
• Transition Metal Complexes (3)
• Atoms and Molecules (14)
• Solutions (6)
• Biochemistry (6)

eVisual Lab Safety - Wins Site Licence Shipped in 7 days Cat.# EV-1 $510.00 BUY

Safety in the science classroom is so important and yet getting students to focus and learn to stay safe can be challenging.

With eVisual Lab Safety, explore a 3D science classroom uncovering information about personal safety, equipment, and safety procedures. Students record their findings with  safety worksheets. Also included is a safety test and safety contract.

Topics Include:
Safety Goggles / Glasses, Lab Coats / Aprons, Gloves, First Aid Kit , Hair / Loose Items, Eyewash Fountain, Fire Extinguisher, Safety Shower, Fire Blanket, Shoes, Sharp's Container, Open Flames, Spills, Protecting the Senses, Electrical Equipment, Food in the Lab, Preparation & Storage Areas, Rules for Investigations, Clean-up and more...