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Light Soda
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In this activity, learners sublimate dry ice and then taste the carbon dioxide gas.

Carbon Configurations
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In this activity, learners use geometry to predict the shape of carbon. Learners twist and attach chenille stem pieces that represent bonds between different carbon atoms.

Production of Carbon Dioxide
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In this chemistry activity, learners use common chemicals to produce carbon dioxide and observe its properties. This resource includes brief questions for learners to answer after the experiment.

Breathing Blue
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In this activity, learners test exhaled breath for carbon dioxide and learn how to use an indicator as a simple way to measure pH.

Tiny Tubes
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In this activity, learners make "totally tubular" forms of carbon. Learners use chicken wire to build macro models of carbon nanotubes.

Having a Gas with Cola
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In this activity, learners measure the amount of carbon dioxide in a carbonated drink.

Raising the Level of Carbon Dioxide in Your Blood
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In this activity (on page 146 of the PDF), learners will explore the effects of increased carbon dioxide in the bloodstream.

"Boyle-ing" Water
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In this activity, learners explore Boyle's Law and discover that water will boil at room temperature if its pressure is lowered.

Shell Shifts
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Ocean acidification is a big issue due to the amount of carbon dioxide humans release. CO2 in the atmosphere is absorbed into the ocean thus changing its acidity.

Dancing Spaghetti
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In this chemistry activity, learners use spaghetti to explore density and chemical reactions.

Space Elevator
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In this activity, learners imagine what the world might look like if we could build an elevator to space!

Plugged in to CO2
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In this activity, learners investigate various appliances and electronics, discovering how much energy each uses and how much carbon dioxide (CO2) is released to produce that energy.

How Long Can You Hold Your Breath?
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In this activity (on page 142 of the PDF), learners will compare breathing rates before and after hyperventilation to explore how reduced carbon dioxide levels in the blood lower the need to breathe.

A Mole of Gas
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In this two-part activity, learners use everyday materials to visualize one mole of gas or 22.4 liters of gas. The first activity involves sublimating dry ice in large garbage bag.

Inflate-a-mole
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In this activity, learners conduct an experiment to find the volume of one mole of gas. Learners capture sublimated gas from dry ice in a ziploc bag and use water displacement to measure its volume.

Collect Oxygen Over Water
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In this activity, learners use a pneumatic trough (see related activity) to generate and collect pure oxygen.

Make a "Mummy"
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The Ancient Egyptians used a naturally-occurring salt from the banks of the Nile River, called natron, to mummify their dead.

Gas Producing Micro-Reaction
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In this chemistry activity, learners use common chemicals and metals to examine reactions that produce gaseous substances.

Column Chromatography
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In this activity, learners separate the components of Gatorade using a home-made affinity column.

Earth Atmosphere Composition
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In this activity, learners use rice grains to model the composition of the atmosphere of the Earth today and in 1880. Learners assemble the model while measuring percentages.