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CLAW At-Home Experiment: Spectrophotometry using Gatorade

By Yann Brouillette, Carmen Leung and Nadia Schoonhoven

CLAW At-Home Experiment: Volumetric Analysis of Household Acid with Cabbage Juice

By Yann Brouillette, Carmen Leung and Nadia Schoonhoven

CLAW At-Home Experiment: Paper Chromatography of Food Dyes and Ink

By Yann Brouillette, Carmen Leung and Nadia Schoonhoven

CLAW At-Home Experiment: Colligative Properties

By Yann Brouillette, Carmen Leung and Nadia Schoonhoven

CLAW At-Home Experiment: Activation Energy in Chemical Kinetics

By Yann Brouillette, Carmen Leung and Nadia Schoonhoven

CLAW At-Home Experiment: The Rate Law in Chemical Kinetics Using Blue Dye

By Yann Brouillette, Carmen Leung and Nadia Schoonhoven

Building Effective Teams

By Meghan Marshall

The Amazing Ethics Race

By Janice Stephenson, Rivka Guttman, Tina Cinelli and Melodie Hicks

The Index of Hydrogen Deficiency

By Sebastien Robidoux

Family Feud

By Philippe Caignon

Problem Set Using Lightboard Video Recordings

By Chris Moraes

Battleship Clicker Questions

By Kenneth Ragan

Reflective Writing On Waves

By Chris Whittaker

What is Torque?

By Phoebe Jackson

Genetics: Patterns of Inheritance

By Karl Laroche

Action Potential Simulation

By Joe Dent

Newton's Third Law

By Jean-François Brière

Explosives Detective

By Adamo R. Petosa

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