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Criteria for Publishing Classroom Activities
1. The activity should be at the introductory (high school) level and relate to the curriculum of an introductory chemistry course.
2. The activity should have some practical interest for the average student and/or use common items instead of (or in addition to) standard laboratory equipment to demonstrate a scientific principle.
3. The activity should be safe, with any needed safety precautions clearly stated.
4. The activity should be well tested and should work as described.
5. The materials required should be inexpensive and readily available in the typical high school chemistry lab, home, local grocery or discount store, or local specialty shop. It should not be necessary to order anything from a chemical supply company. Ideally, anything that has to be purchased specifically for this activity should not cost more than $1-2 per student and/or should be reusable for other purposes.
6. Time requirements may range from 10-15 minutes total to a few minutes every day or every week for a specified period. Activities that require more than 45 minutes must be broken into parts that can be done on different days and/or must be safe for the students to do at home.
7. Activities need not be totally original, but should have some novel approach in addition to adaptation to the Classroom Activity Sheet style. Sources of ideas must be cited. Activities adapted from a published source must include permission from the copyright holder of the publication.
8. The activity must fit the one-page, back-and-front format. It must be complete, providing all a teacher and student need to know to do the activity and understand the results. Additional supplementary materials (text, graphics, digital video clips) may be provided for distribution via the WWW, but such materials must not be required to do the activity. Black and white photographs or artwork may be used on the activity sheet itself, provided it still fits the one page format.
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