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Lower Elementary - Grades K-3

Upper Elementary - Grades 4-5

Middle School - Grades 6-8

Paper Chromatography (6-8)
Understand the development of different paints and their properties during the Renaissance. (6-12)
Extracting pigments from plants using chromatography. (9-12)
Use paper chromatography to evaluate a hypothesis regarding plant pigments (6-8)
Students will separate the pigments in fresh spinach leaves (chromatography) and will identify the pigment in each color band and calculate the Rf value. (6-8)
Introduces students to plant dyes and their history (5-8)
Learn about the chemical pigments of some plant-based dyes. (6-8)

High School - Grades 9-12

To understand: 1. pH levels in bodies of a water environment, 2. the Bronsted-Lowry approach of proton transfer in acid-base reactions, 3. how sulfur burns in the air and water environment to create acid 4. to use hands-on color coding to understand pH. (9-12)
The spectra of various elements and electron configuration, energized electrons, photon and color emittion, compound identification. (9-12)
Briggs-Rauscher Oscillating Color Change Reaction (10-11)
Understand how color helps identify elements and that it is excited electrons that produce this color. (9-12)
Paper chromatography separation of pigment mixture and analyze its separate parts by determining the Rf (retention factor); by using leaf chromatography, show that the Rf is a constant. (9-12)