Chemistry | Grocery Store Compounds

Project & Resources

Step One:  Choose an item from the shopping list

• Gatorade

• Oreos

• Cool Ranch Doritos

• Kraft Macaroni and Cheese

• Bacon

• Diet Coke

• Chocolate Cake Mix

• Vanilla Frosting

• Lean Cuisine Chicken Parmesan

• DiGiorno Rising Crust Pepperoni Pizza

• Jello Chocolate & Vanilla Pudding

• Amy's Breakfast Scramble Wrap

• Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls with Icing

• Carnation Instant Breakfast, Chocolate

• Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Soup

• Birds Eye Pasta and Broccoli with a Cheese Sauce

• Dove Deodorant

• Aveno Shampoo

• Colgate Total Advanced Clean Plus Whitening Toothpaste

• Edge Pro Gel, Sensitive Skin with Aloe

• Purell Hand Sanitizer

• OPI Nail Lacquer

• MAC Matte Lipstick

• Neutrogena Clear Face Liquid-Lotion Sunblock SPF 55

• Bumble and Bumble Bb.Hairdresser's Invisible Oil Heat/UV Protective Primer

• Centrum Multivitamin Multimineral Supplement

• American Crew 3 in 1 Body Wash

• Clinique Mascara

Step Two:  Open the Research Note Taker.  

Note Taker

Step Three:  Use the following websites to locate the ingredients in the products.

Fresh Direct

Ulta

Step Four:  Choose four compounds and use the following databases and websites find the rest of the information for each of the compounds.

Gale Virtual Reference Library 

ChemSpider

PubChem

Step Five:  Use the information from the note taker to fill in the poster template focusing on what the compound does in the product.  You will need to use your brains to make educated guesses in some cases to figure out how the product is used in the compound.

Sample Poster

Poster Template