Chemistry Links, Resources and Activities

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Download a PowerPoint version of the Periodic Table | Simulations

1. 3-D Molecules - over 100 3-D interactive molecules
2. American Chemical Society homepage
3. Animated Molecules - Click on a picture to link to a page with the GIF file and a short discussion of the molecule. [Note: Occasionally this site exceeds their bandwidth limit.]
4. Bioluminescence - Bioluminescence is simply light produced by a chemical reaction which originates in an organism.
5. The Catalyst - This site has been developed specifically for the secondary education/high school level teacher, as a resource for finding relevant information for use in the teaching of chemistry.
6. Chembalancer is a little online game to teach balancing equations. You type numbers in front of each molecule until there are the same number of atoms on both sides of the equation, then click the 'Balanced' button.
7. Chemistry4Kids has sections on Matter, Elements, Atoms, Math, and Reactions.
8. Chemistry 11 and Chemistry 12 - Powerpoints, study notes, labs, worksheets, and assignments created by Jeremy Schneider; All text references refer to Fundamentals of Chemistry, 3rd Edition, by Brady & Holum
9. Chemistry Drill and Practice Tutorials - These problems were developed by Professor George Wiger at California State University, Dominguez Hills, CA.
10. Chemistry Lesson Plans - A collection of almost 200 single concept lessons.
11. ChemTalk - Chemistry made fun and easy; many resources are found there
12. ChemTeam - High School Chemistry tutorials
13. Concentration - a set of lectures from ChemBuddy
14. Element Flash Cards - a student is given an element and they must then supply the element's chemical name, symbol or atomic number
15. Element hangman
16. Element math game
17. Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
18. Fire and Spice - the chemistry of hot peppers
19. General Chemistry Online includes companion notes, tutorials, and lists of chemistry resources on the Internet
20. General Chemistry Virtual Textbook - This work-in-progress consists of two classes of documents: Chem1 Reference Text chapters and Tutorial units.
21. Interactive Animations in Biochemistry - innovative ways of learning and remembering important biochemical concepts
22. LearnChemE - educational resources for chemical engineering from the Univrsity of Colorado Boulder
    1. Screencasts - short screen captures, usually of a tablet PC, with instructor narration
    2. Interactive Simulations - these simulations can be viewed below using Opera and Mozilla Firefox browsers with the free Wolfram CDF plug-in
23. The Mad Scientists Network has an archive of previous Chemistry questions and answers. Have you wondered why Coca-Cola is corrosive? That and much more can be found in the archive.
24. NIST Chemistry WebBook provides users with access to chemical and physical property data for chemical species through the Internet
25. Nobel Prizes in Chemistry - includes the Nobel lecture given by winners
26. Periodic Tables:
    1. American Elements - an interactive periodic table
    2. Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev - We will never be able to attribute to a single individual the development of the basic building blocks of writing. Yet we do know the name of the man who devised the method of classifying the basic building blocks of matter. Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev! [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive.]
    3. Elements Handbook - Knowledge Door offers a periodic table with full citations for element facts given. They also have calculators and chemistry in the news. 
    4. Periodic Table from ChemiCool
    5. Periodic Table - This common chemistry tool is presented as a PowerPoint show with web links to pages about each element. Invisible buttons are used on slide 2. (There are 109 invisible buttons on one slide.) Download the show and take a look!
    6. Proton Don - a FunBrain game using a periodic table that contains the elements' symbols and their periodic numbers.
    7. Quiz on "The Structure and Groups of the Periodic Table"
       1. Index of multiple choice Chemistry quizzes
27. The pH Factor is posted by the Miami Museum of Science [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive.]
28. pH Calculation - a set of lectures from ChemBuddy
29. QandA Encyclopedia - Browse questions and answers about Chemistry at Smart QandA. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive.]
30. Regents Chemistry Exam Prep Center [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive.]
31. Science is Fun in the Lab of Shakhashiri . A master of chemical demonstrations, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chemistry Professor Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, shares the fun of science through home science activities, demonstration shows, videos, and books. Information about these and other science fun stuff is available there.
32. Scientific Notation - a lesson on why and how to use scientific notation. There is also a worksheet to allow practice of the concept.
33. Sig Fig Calculator
34. Sig Figs Calculator - solves expressions and counts the number of significant figures
35. Significant Digits - an interactive site to allow practice on identifying the number of significant digits in a displayed number. A student gets immediate feedback regarding the correctness of their answer, however there are no clues given if a student is wrong.
36. Significant Figures - Scientific notation is the most reliable way of expressing a number to a given number of significant figures. In scientific notation, the power of ten is insignificant. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive.]
37. Significant Figures Calculator - one of many calculators available from Omni Calculator
38. Simulations - Visit our chemistry simulations page: https://www.internet4classrooms.com/chemistry_simulations.htm
39. Tutorials to help you understand various chemical concepts and problems including: How to Determine the Polarity of a Molecule, Balancing Chemical Equations, Empirical Formulas, The Solubility Rules, The Periodic Table, and more. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive.]
40. Virtual Chembook - excellent resources for a Chemistry teacher, posted by Elmhurst College [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive.]