Chemistry Lesson Plans
By Subject and Grade Level
Lower Elementary School - Grades K-3
- Red cabbage juice natural pH indicator (1-5)
- Molecular movement (3-4)
- Changes with Acids & Bases (K-5)
- Melting Snow and Thermometers (PreK-2)
- Generating Electricity with Potato Batteries by Using Vegetables to Convert Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy (K-5)
- Learning About Fossil Fuels (1-5)
- Make sugar solutions and determine the sweetest of these by taste. (2-3)
- Become aware that air is made up of gases (1-3)
- Identify happy/sad and winter/summer colors from a story, understand how people see colors and show the results of mixing colored lights (K-3)
- Growing crystals in three-dimensional patterns from solutions. (2-3)
- Compare some properties of solids, liquids and gases and describe how matter changes from one state to another (1-3)
- Demonstrate that air occupies space; how air exerts force (K-4)
- How different kinds of solutions move through selectively permeable membranes and understand the role of osmosis in the movement of molecules (2)
- Observe that air takes up space, has weight and exerts pressure. (2-5)
- Using the characteristic of a chemical reaction to write a secret letter (K-5)
- Define: acid rain, carbon dioxide, acid, base, neutral, pH, pollution, gas,corrosion,atmosphere,ozone layer,solar radiation. (2-3)
- Students will be able to understand how primary colors are used to make secondary colors. (K-1)
- Determine whether vinegar creates a chemical reaction and make an active and a dormant volcano. (2)
- Give a general view of the universe, the properties of matter and an understanding of the laws which govern the universe. (K-3)
- Physical chemical reaction in two bottled coke soda, hot vs. cold pop. Students will measure the beginning and the ending of bubbles. (K-3)
- Chromatography - Chemical Separation of Colors (3)

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