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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Chemical Reaction Rate in Ultraviolet Beads

For Students 9th - 10th
In this science fair project, experiment with the role temperature plays in the rate at which UV beads lose their color. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and introduction,...
eBook
Chiral Publishing

Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Chemical Calculations and Chemical Equations [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This chapter on chemical calculations and equations focuses on equation stoichiometry. Learn how to convert masses, use limiting reactants, and calculate the molarity of a solution.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Chemistry of Life: Skill Check: Chemical Bonds and Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this skill check to test your understanding of chemical bonds and reactions.
Interactive
Davidson College

Davidson College: Chemical Equilibria: Calculations With Reaction Stoichiometry

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the use of a reaction table when analyzing chemical equilibrium and presents a virtual experiment where the equilibrium constant of a chemical reaction is determined for different scenarios. Requires Java.
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NBC

Nbc Learn: Cheeseburger Chemistry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This original six-part Chemistry Now video series uses components of a cheeseburger to illustrate and explain common chemistry concepts and reactions. Videos include the science of the bun, the burger, cheese, tomatoes, pickles and...
Interactive
Davidson College

Davidson College: Chemical Kinetics: Integrated Rate Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the integrated rate laws for zero-, first-, and second-order reactions. Students then try a virtual stopped-flow experiment to find the rate law and the rate constant for a chemical reaction. Requires Java.
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.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Wizardry and Chemistry

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students learn how common pop culture references (Harry Potter books) can relate to chemistry. While making and demonstrating their own low-intensity sparklers (muggle-versions of magic wands), students learn and come to appreciate the...
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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.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Chemistry of Life

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Many chemical reactions are going on constantly inside your body. In fact, there are probably thousands of chemical reactions occurring every second in every one of...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Crime Scene Chemistry: The Light of Luminol

For Students 9th - 10th
Experiment with the chemical called luminol, which emits a blue light when it reacts with other chemicals. This science fair project explores whether temperature affects the amount of light emitted. The Science Buddies project ideas are...
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Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College: Chem Lab: Chemical Kinetics 1

For Students 9th - 10th
In this experiment, you will determine the rate law and confirm the mechanism of the reaction between cyclohexanone and iodine. Requires Java and QuickTime plug-ins to access some features.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Chemistry of Cold Packs

For Students 9th - 10th
If you stick water in the freezer, it will take a few hours to freeze into ice. How is it, then, that cold packs go from room temperature to near freezing in mere seconds? John Pollard details the chemistry of the cold pack, shedding...
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Chemistry (Single Science)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site lists the topics and lessons available for Chemistry. The topics include Particles; Elements, compounds and mixtures; Chemical reactions, Predicting and identifying reactions and products, organic chemistry, and more.
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Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Chemical Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
With an overview of topics related to chemical energetics, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and molecules as energy carriers and converters. Topics covered include how molecules take up thermal energy,...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Reversible Reaction

For Students 9th - 10th
Acting as an overview from the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, this site seeks to answer the question, what is a reversible reaction? Acting as part of a larger informative site on equilibrium, various topics are addressed including...
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National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Nagt: The Chemistry of Sand: Not All Beaches Are Created Equal

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A laboratory activity where middle schoolers investigate the chemistry of sand based on whether and how much it reacts with hydrogen chloride. They then make predictions and observe what happens when they do the same with various shell...
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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: What Is a Chemical Reaction?

For Students 9th - 10th
Use chemical formulas to visualize how chemical equations are balanced.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Single Replacement Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
Definition of single replacement (or single displacement) reactions. Predicting and determining the products using the reactivity series.
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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...
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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....