Chemistry Demos
Chemistry Demos 
- Provide a forum for students and teachers to exchange their favorite and most enlightening demonstrations
- Reduce the time, expense, danger, environmental impact of performing particularly difficult demonstrations live
- Help teachers and students perform live demonstrations through detailed step-by-step video instructions
- Keep the demonstrations concise. Try to limit the video runtime to the class time you would dedicate to this demo.
- Include practical information. Annotate the videos with relevant hazards, materials, disposal, references, and hints that a teacher would need to reproduce your demo safely and efficiently. If a demo is not appropriate for a classroom setting (like igniting a kg of thermite on the hood of a car), please include appropriate warnings.
- Teach some chemistry. Include specific learning objectives for your demo including if possible specific standards addressed so that teachers can easily find demos that are relevant and enlightening. However, let's not burden this forum with lengthy scientific explanations. Better to cite useful references where one can learn more.
I would seriously consider doing voice-overs. When audio quality is poor the audience's attention span will decrease because they don't understand the content of the video. I would also make sure that your captions match up with your video because nothing looks more unprofessional than a video...
WHY SO SERIOUS?
I learned that dry Ice is frozen carbon, and that it goes through sublimation which means it goes directly form solid to gas state. I also learned about colloids, and it is a gas suspended in a bubble. And that is how our lab worked, the dry ice created carbon and that carbon got suspended in the...
Make a piece of art by mixing dry ice, paint, and water. Ok, it's not da Vinci, but it's fun.
Add a piece of dry ice to a 2 liter bottle of soda and stand back.
What happens when dry ice and water combine in a water bottle? Water shoots out at high speeds!
