Exploring Hydrocarbons

Earlier this year, I attended an here.  One of the tools I was given to purpose alongside my students was a laid of hydrocarbon modeling kits from Mega Molecules.     

Organic chemical scientific discipline isn't precisely inwards the realm of our physical scientific discipline standards, simply basic ionic as well as covalent bonding are inwards the standards.  I used this one-day introduction to hydrocarbons every bit an end-of-unit extension lesson.  I idea my students would create goodness from the conduct chances to construct a model of a molecule.  

Here are around of their creations: 

I gave each of my students a hydrocarbon edifice kit as well as a tabular array to complete.

Here's the tabular array I created.  It is inspired past times a tabular array nosotros were given at the workshop to create sum out.  

This is my get-go twelvemonth pedagogy physical science, as well as I'm definitely making around rookie mistakes.  My students stimulate got been practicing naming covalent compounds, as well as therefore I *thought* I would stimulate got students refer the hydrocarbons using the rules for covalent compounds.  Then, I would part alongside them (through the next-to-last column inwards the table) what scientists referred to the hydrocarbons as.  

Silly me didn't mean value almost what would hap when I needed a prefix for 14 hydrogen atoms!  Oops...  I told my students that I had planned this as well as therefore that they could come across why scientists used a unlike naming system for hydrocarbons than the method nosotros had been using for covalent compounds.  They seemed to live okay alongside this.  

But, I mean value I powerfulness stimulate got out that naming column if I e'er learn physical scientific discipline as well as create this action again.  

Methane

Butane

Propane

One happy side result of this one-day exploration of hydrocarbons is that whenever nosotros come across hydrocarbons inwards the equations that nosotros are balancing, nosotros tin plough over notice refer them!  Of course, I abide by this much to a greater extent than exciting than my students do...

I stimulate got the uploaded the file for this action here.

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