STEM Handbook – Ceramics

Ceramics and Glass Basics

Background Information and Introductory Labs and Demonstrations

• Metal vs. Ceramics (pdf)

• Introductory Ceramic Demos (pdf)

• Lantern Mantle Demo (pdf)

• Light Bulb Filament and Lantern Mantle Notes and Student Lab Sheet (pdf)

• Thermal Shock Demo (pdf)

• A Physical Model to Help Students Understand the Melting Range of Glasses by Ray Bunell (pdf)

Overheads

• Melting Points of Metals and Tempurature/Color Correlation (pdf)

• Silicate Tetrahedra (pdf)

• Glass Ingredients (pdf)

• Most Common Types of Glass (pdf)

More Labs and Projects

• Glass Stations (ASM Teachers Camp) (pdf)

• Lab Methods for Glass Stations (pdf)

• Example of a Glass Task Sheet used with Students (pdf)

• Raku Glazing Process (pdf)

Articles

• *ChemMatters – “Chemistry of the Light Bulb” (pdf)

• *ChemMatters – “Glass – An Amorphous Solid” (pdf)

Glossary

• MAST Glossary – Ceramics and Glass (pdf)

*Reprinted with permission from the ACS ChemMatters at www.acs.org/chemmatters, American Chemical Society. Not to be included as part of a larger publication, and not to be used for commercial purposes.