Hi, this is a somewhat niche/specific question - we are working on an all-electric school (middle and high school) that includes a chemistry lab. The lab was going to have portable sources for flame experiments, but there is concern that the portable sources would be unsafe for middle school students, so they are asking for a hard-pipe natural gas solution.
I'm wondering if anyone has experience with designing alternates for fossil fuel combustion in K-12 chemistry classes. Has anyone researched this?
This can easily turn into a conversation about chemistry pedagogy which I would actually be really interested in... (what's the ROI on learning fundamental chemistry concepts with open flames vs... hot plates/videos?) Admittedly it's been several decades since my last chemistry class but I wonder if there are new options for teaching these concepts without fossil fuel combustion.