Baton Rouge area - Community outreach

Classroom tools
We have a variety of presentation materials available for our ACE volunteers to use during classroom visits, science days, job fairs and career days. To invite a volunteer to your school. Some of the many activities we can provide are as follows: 

Demonstrations

• Products from the world of chemicals – Enhances students' appreciation of the variety of products made from oil and their effects on our lives.

• Liquid nitrogen: freezing balloons and flowers – Watch what happens to flowers, bananas and especially balloons when dipped in liquid nitrogen. Why is it so cold?
• Pepsi challenge: understanding density – A can of Pepsi dropped into water will sink, but Diet Pepsi will float. Why?
• Dancing Raisins: formation of gas – The baking soda reacts with the vinegar to form carbon dioxide. Once reaching the surface, the bubbles pop and the raisins drops back to the bottom.

Hands-on activities

• Alligator indicator: understanding acids and bases – Can be used for first grade and up. Students investigate foods and substances and their interaction with the indicator paper.
• Hot hands or cold hands: understanding heats of reactions – Used for fifth grade and up. Students explore how some things get hot when mixed with water (the calcium chloride) and others get cold (baking soda). They also mix an acid and a base to form carbon dioxide and calcium carbonate (chalk).