Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Big Pieces or Small Pieces: Which React Faster?

For Students 9th - 10th
Use an Alka-Seltzer to find out how size of a particle affects the speed of a chemical reaction. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and introduction, followed by a section on...
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Can You Change the Rate of a Chemical Reaction?

For Students 9th - 10th
The ingredients in Alka-Seltzer tablets undergo a chemical reaction that produces carbon dioxide gas as soon as the tablets hit water. Do you think you can cause the tablets to produce gas faster by breaking them into smaller pieces...
Activity
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Does Salt & Vinegar Have an Effect on Pennies?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
During this lab students will experiment to see whether a salt and vinegar solution can clean a tarnished penny. Included on site is lesson plan and student worksheet.
Activity
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Invisible Ink

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will get to experiment with "invisible ink" to enhance their literacy skills and their understandings of reactions between two substances.
Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Reversible Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch a reaction proceed over time. How does total energy affect a reaction rate? This model represents an analogy of chemical reactions.
Activity
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Reactants, Products and Leftovers

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive simulation that teaches about chemical reactions and limiting reactants by creating sandwiches to represent chemical reactions. See how many can be made using different amounts of reactants. This simulation can either be...
Unit Plan
Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Chemical Relationships: Chemical Equations

For Students 9th - 10th
An introduction to chemical reactions and an explanation of balanced equations.
Handout
Other

Chemical Reax/exothermic Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
A wonderfully complete primer on exothermic reactions in the context of chemical spills. Covers Reactions with Air or Water, Combustible Organics, Polymerization Reax, Decomposition, Corrosion, and much much more.
Article
Other

The Chemistry Laboratory: A Lesson in Safety

For Students 9th - 10th
A segment on safety in Chemistry that was written by Ira Remsen while he was at John Hopkins University.
Interactive
Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry: Go React

For Students 9th - 10th
Experience chemical reactions with this virtual drag-and-drop laboratory. This site allows you to create chemical reactions by combining elements from the Periodic Table.
Activity
Iowa State University

Iowa State University: Metal/metal Ion Reactions: A Laboratory Simulation [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Laboratory simulation tests how metals and metal ions react.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Changes in Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students identify the chemical properties of a substance and describe chemical changes and differentiate them from physical changes....
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Chemical Equations

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students will describe chemical reactions using word equations and know the correct symbols to use in order to write skeleton...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Mole Ratios

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial students will relate balanced chemical equations to everyday analogies, such as a recipe. They will also define stoichiometry and use mole...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Hess's Law and Standard Enthalpy of Formation

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will use Hess's law of heat summation to add chemical reactions together to produce a desired final equation, and then calculate the enthalpy change for...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Chemical Equations

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students explore mass relations between reactants and products for a given chemical process, and practice balancing chemical equations.
Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Reactants, Products, Leftovers

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the analogy of sandwich making with several ingredients and see if anything is left over. Then do the same thing with reactants in a chemical reaction, to see how many different products can be made. Afterwards, play a game with...
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Flex Book Textbooks: Chemistry Second Edition

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A complete, web-based, multi-media textbook covering a wide variety of Chemistry concepts.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Chemistry: Chemical Formulas and Equations

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive module, students are introduced to the most fundamental part of chemistry: chemical reactions and the formulas that accompany them.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Biology: Energy Transformations

For Students 9th - 10th
Through interactive learning exercises, students examine the different definitions of energy and how enzymes regulate how the energy is stored and used during cellular respiration. They also take a close look at photosynthesis to learn...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Chemistry: Thermochemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module students learn the relationship between energy and chemical reactions, and understand the difference between energy, heat, and work. They perform calorimetry calculations, and study the laws of thermodynamics, enthalpy,...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Chemistry: Electrochemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module students learn more about oxidation-reductions and how to balance these reactions and perform stoichiometric calculations on these specific reactions. Students also explore electrolysis, galvanic cells, reduction...
eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Biology: Chemistry of Life: Chemical Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
An article discussing how chemical reactions make and break bonds between atoms.
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Chemical Reactions and Stoichiometry

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, students explore reactions in which chemical bonds are formed and broken. Students experiment with changing the temperature and the concentration of the atoms in order to see how these affect reaction rates. They also...