I love teaching Chemistry to kiddos of all ages. Not everyone loves it as much as I do. Don’t be intimidated! I teach with Apologia textbooks and supplement with everything else. I like the sample Middle School Chemistry Home Science Tools has online; p54 has an acid-base titration lab which is sensational! My favorite Middle School Chemistry is from ACS. These lessons are designed to help teachers who don’t have a background in Chemistry. Look at Chapter One: Matter; there are videos, lessons, simulations, readings, and teacher information. Detour to these ACS lessons as you tackle the modules in Apologia’s Physical Science textbook.
Do some classic, Middle School labs: Rainbow Lab (follow directions), Ice Cream in a Bag (Freezing Point Depression), Mystery Powders (Tremendous details) (Mystery Powders-fewer details), and Red Cabbage Chemistry.
Build on the experiments in the textbook. This Apologia PS sample has Experiment 1.1, Making Observations, which amounts to dropping an Alka-Seltzer tablet into water. Let’s take this up a notch: Alka-Seltzer Rockets, Fizz Race, and Temperature L3 (Vary the water temperature with the film cartridge rockets.)
Branch out! Look over different lab collections: National Chemistry Week 2025, ACS NCW 2024, and ACS NCW 2023.
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