Chemistry Sites
Chem4Kids
http://www.chem4kids.com/
This site can be used to introduce chemistry to children or augment your science unit on
solids, liquids and gasses.
Chemical Elements.com
http://www.chemicalelements.com/
Chemistry Guide
http://www.chemistryguide.org
The Chemistry Guide is an excellent site to find a wide range of chemical information. It
incudes a comprehensive collection of annotated links for chemists and researchers
involved in organic, biochemical, computational, medicinal, and/or other chemistry
research.
Colloid Chemistry
http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/webprojects2002/pdavies/
An excellent site for learning about colloids. Content includes an explanation of what
colloids are, types of colloids, how colloids are formed, properties of colloids, the
Tyndall Effect, and examples of colloids.
Creative Chemistry
http://www.creative-chemistry.org.uk/index.htm
Creative Chemistry offers worksheets, teaching notes, and fun activities. There are over
two hundred pages of question sheets and practical guides, chemistry puzzles, interactive
revision quizzes, molecular models, and the "Tune-up Garage" to help improve
science investigations.
National Science Digital Library
http://nsdl.org/
NSDL is the Nation's online library for education and research in Science, Technology,
Engineering, Mathematics. Features include What's This highlighting dramatic videos of
chemical reactions. Periodic Table Live! is the latest iteration of a computerized
periodic table that was first developed in the mid-1980s. The new version contains videos
of reactions of the elements and the crystal structures that can be altered and rotated.
PBS Zoom Kitchen Chemistry
http://pbskids.org/zoom/games/kitchenchemistry/
Explore the Virtual Kitchen and perform online experiments to solve a puzzle and get a
reward. Go to the Reality Kitchen to perform experiments in the real world.
Periodic Table Live!
http://www.chemeddl.org/collections/ptl/
Periodic Table Live! allows you to explore a broad range of information about the
elements, their reactions, their properties, their structures and their histories.
POP Goes Antarctica
http://literacynet.org/polar/pop/html/project.html
What does it take to be a scientist on Antarctica? How do you sterilize lab equipment?
Students explore this website to find out about Antarctica and the work being done there
to study Persistent Organic Pollutants. Student activities really try to put students in
the real world of this project.
Stain Guide
http://www.chemistry.co.nz/stain_frame.htm
The pH Factor
http://www.miamisci.org/ph/
The pH Factor is a site that can be used to teach elementary and middle school students
about acids and bases. Each of the seven sections contains an online lesson and activity
that can be taught consecutively or individually.
Toxic House
http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/toxic_flash/toxic_house_flash.html
Totally Flash-driven, provides a quick and interesting overview of the dangerous chemicals
in our very own homes! As you explore various rooms in the Toxic House, you discover the
bad things that commonly exist in many modern homes. Links take you to more information
about the toxin.
What's That Stuff?
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff.html
Find out what lightsticks, Silly Putty, Cheese Wiz, artificial snow, and JELL-O are made
of. This collection of articles explores the chemistry behind a wide variety of everyday
products.
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