{"id":1482,"date":"2016-06-23T13:07:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T07:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:30:21","slug":"crystal-clear-magic-in-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/crystal-clear-magic-in-chemistry\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Clear Magic&#8230;in Chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is challenge number 4 in <a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/teach-to-learn-learn-to-teach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the series<\/a>. Here&#8217;s actually the video of the demonstration performed in front of the concerned students themselves!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"IB1 2009 Magical Crystals\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yTVwyWwFilk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The demonstration was performed at the beginning of the relevant topic. After the topic was completely covered, and the student had learned\/mastered the necessary chemistry, we revisited the demonstration. I showed them the video challenging them explain what happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How would one go about figuring that out?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>First, you have to determine or identify the chemical process that took place.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Then, logically deduce the identities of the chemicals (crystalline salts) involved using your knowledge of salts and their colors.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And finally, explain the observation\/process, including a chemical equation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>What can throw off some students is the fact that all the chemicals involved are solid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Beauties <a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/teach-to-learn-learn-to-teach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won a point<\/a>&nbsp;in this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why don&#8217;t you have a go at explaining what happened?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Incidentally, this video appears elsewhere in this blog as well. If you would like some hints, <a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/myp4-5-science\/m5-chemistry\/m5-magical-crystals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a> to see it being presented as a MYP Year 5 task and <a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/dp-chemistry\/dp1\/dp1-magical-crystals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> as an IB Diploma chemistry task. Both contain some useful additional information.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When crystals in the Chemistry lab interact, it&#8217;s not always crystal clear what is happening&#8230;unless you know Chemistry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Crystal Clear Magic...In Chemistry","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,26,8],"tags":[25,24,30,31,32,18],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chemistry","category-enrichment-activities","category-ib-diploma","tag-azerbaijan","tag-baku","tag-chemical-reaction","tag-chemistry-of-salts","tag-crystalline-salts","tag-ib-diploma-chemistry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/magical-crystals-feat-image.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Y7Kk-nU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4119,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions\/4119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}