My name is Bond, Hydrogen Bond. Written for distance scholars working on chemistry at the high school level, the lesson includes eight weeks worth of material divided into six parts: substances you use, mixing it up, your skin, what's growing on your skin, dissolve it, and good medicine. Each part includes hands-on activities, research, and analysis. The final project is an inquiry-based experiment combining the concepts of colloids, solutions, and suspensions.

Concepts

solutions, suspension, colloids, microbes, surface tension, dissolving, medicine

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Have a dermatologist speak to your class, or have each pupil interview a dermatologist if you are teaching the lesson as a distance course

Classroom Considerations

• Be aware of any allergies
• Examples of the topics covered include beer foam, heroin, and contraceptives 
• The lesson is written in Australian English, so some words may need to be explained to learners of other nationalities, (e.g. turps, Brasso, and lollies)
• One activity requires observing an outside body of still water

Pros

• Geared toward a student audience, making distance learning easier
• Includes an answer key

Cons

• Web page for audio files is no longer working

Common Core

RST.9-10.3 RST.11-12.3