Please feel free to add your own theme ideas and/or add potential activities that could be appropriate for the themes suggested below:
In no particular order:
"ChemisTree" (with appropriate name change)
- Plant trees on campus and in communities
- Paper with wildflower seeds embedded (General Mills / Cheerios)
Cleaner Water through Chemistry
- Filtration demo (activitiy - sand + salt dissolved in water, send through coffee filter, evaporate water)
- oxidation of contaminants (does 3% hydrogen peroxide react with food coloring?)
Breaking it Down: The Chemistry of Earth-Friendly Products
- Biodegradable materials
Fireflies to Fire Ants: Chemistry Gone Buggy
- Pheromones
- Luciferase
- Insect repellents
Rocketry
Paper
- Recycling process
- Homemade recycled paper from newspaper or other sources (could also explore bleaching this pulp using household hydrogen peroxide (3%)
- Origami molecules? (Could be difficult)
- Homemade pH paper using red cabbage juice and/or turmeric powder (goldenrod paper)
- Paper with wildflower seeds embedded (General Mills / Cheerios)
- Paper airplanes?
- Paper boats with different types of paper and/or coatings (wax paper, parchment paper, newspaper)
- Paper chromatography (could this be done with scents in addition to colors?)
- Paper and wax microfluidic devices
Light
- Electromagnetic spectrum, solar spectrum
- Climate change/global warming connection
- Sunscreens and UV radiation - observe effect on bleaching of dyes on construction paper
