Table of Contents

Title Page

Topic Overview

• Content in a Nutshell
  
• Place in the Curriculum
  
• Central Concepts
  
• Related Concepts
  
• Related Skills
  
• Performance Objectives

Concept/Skills Development

• Laboratory Activity:
  Student Version
  Teacher Notes

• Demonstrations
  
  Demonstration 1: Metal-Acid Reactions
  Demonstration 2: Nature of Indicators
  Demonstration 3: Indicators and the pH Scale
  Demonstration 4: Conductivity
  Demonstration 5: pH and Environmental Gases
  Demonstration 6: pH Measurement
  Demonstration 7: Silent Demo--Reactivity and Concentration
  Suggestions for Other Demonstration

• Group and Discussion Activities
  
  Key Questions
  Counterintuitive Examples and Discrepant Events
  Metaphors and Analogies
  Pictures in the Mind

• Tips for the Teacher
  
  Language of Chemistry
  Common Student Misconceptions

• History: On the Human side

• Humor: On the Fun Side

• Media

• Instrumentation

Links/Connections

• Within Chemistry
  
• Between Chemistry and Other Disciplines
  
• To the Contemporary World
  

Extensions

Conjugate Acid-Base Pairs
Hydrolysis
Buffers
Lewis Acids and Bases

References

Appendix