Balloon Molecules Schroeder - Am Chem Soc Mar2010

Carbon monoxide vs Carbon Di-Oxide Big Difference! (CO & CO2)...NOx....H2O....CO2.....SO, SO2, SO3, H2SO4 (Sulfuric acid if you have enough balloons...this wouldn't be a gas but the proton and drawing the Lewis structure I can't see anyone NOT learning it!)...but kids would ave more fun making molecules with balloons than the ball and sticks, I know I do!....Here's the molecules that accumulated over the week so most are out of air and shrunk...) OZONE (three green two are tied like O2 and the third is velcro'd so when you punch it like a UV photon it breaks one of the O's off......***********Who needs a big budget to teach chemistry? ************* If you half-fill the balloons, the helium goes twice as far AND the molecules will 'float' not fly away! The kids are "In the Reaction Vessel", the molecules are literally IN THE AIR AROUND YOU! Kids will retain this information!!!!! ....You have color code for each element (Nitrogen-BLUE) (Hydrogen-RED) (Carbon should be black) (Oxygen is Green) (Sulfur is yellow) (Phosphorus is orange) There you go all the biochem CHNOPS....AND you can also blow the balloon to relative SIZES!... this IS what we need to teach about a molecule in chemistry!...You can break and reconnect bonds (and even use the fuzzy and opposite velcro to represent the e- spins that have to align to bond (Molecular Bonding Theory, I don't get into that!) This is fun and way more useful than the stick and ball models, cause you have the size relations (This is important)! I hope to do this in classrooms and science centers 'cause you really can teach some sophisticated science (and MOST IMPORTANTLY! the kids will do it AND remember it!
So this fit with the 'Green Chemistry' theme of the American Chemical Society's National Spring Meeting in San Francisco the third week of March 2010...
See the website for the complete list of atmospheric pollutants(That are gases!) and more ....www.ScienceIsGolden.com

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