These are labs that I have developed over the past several years for teaching first-year high school chemistry.  (I have another set of college-level labs that I use for teaching AP Chemistry.)  You may find variations of some of these labs published elsewhere, but there are some labs here that I don’t think you’ll find anywhere else.  These are not the only labs that I do, but these are the labs that are not commonly available from other sources.

These labs are to be used by professional chemistry educators ONLY.  Please do not attempt any of these labs if you are not a professional chemistry educator who is very familiar with normal lab procedures and lab safety precautions. I do not assume any responsibility for any injuries that may result while following any of the procedures listed below.

Please check back to this website periodically.  I will be updating these pages on a regular basis with additional resources.  The following is the order in which I do each of these labs (along with other labs that you probably already have from other sources):

1. Brass Penny Lab                                 2.  Synthesis of MgO Lab

3. Relative Activity of Metals Lab       4. Double Displacement Lab

5. Empirical Formula Lab                       6.  Stoichiometry Lab

7. Intermolecular Forces Lab                 8.  Hess’s Law Lab

9. Reaction Kinetics Lab