Frostburg State University
General Chemistry Online: Chemistry of Everyday Life
A collection of questions commonly asked to address where chemistry is found in everyday life. Find out how mood lipstick works and why chunks of pineapple can't be added to Jell-o.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Alfred Nobel His Life and Work
This resource provides information about Alfred Nobel, a scientist who contributed greatly to the world of chemistry. This article includes several pictures and details about Nobel's personal life and professional career.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Human Impacts on Marine Species
Students learn about three examples of human impacts on marine life: migration patterns and shipping, algal blooms and water chemistry, and marine debris. Some of these impacts are due to human activity in the ocean, and some impacts on...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: If You're Not Part of the Solution!
Students continue the research begun in the associated lesson as if they were biomedical engineers working for a pharmaceutical company. Groups each perform a simple chemical reaction (to precipitate solid calcium out of solution) to...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 2.1 Elements and Compounds
Learn how basic elements form molecules to support life.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Biochemistry and Organic Chemistry Quiz
Take an interactive quiz over biochemistry and organic chemistry. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Acids, Bases, and Ph
Test your knowledge on acids, bases, and pH with this quiz that is part of the Chemistry of Biology unit.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Overview of Human Anatomy and Physiology
This site provides an overview of human anatomy, the scientific study of the body's structures. It also includes an overview of human physiology, he scientific study of the chemistry and physics of the structures of the body and the ways...
Career Cornerstone Center
Sloan Career Cornerstone Center: Career in Chemistry
A career in the field of Chemistry is profiled.Included: Chemistry overview, Preparation, Day In The Life, Earnings, Employment, Career Path Forecast, Professional Organizations.
Other
American Chemistry Council: Plastics: Lifecycle of a Plastic Product
This site provides the background on the applications of the plastics industry. General in nature, but a good look at where plastic is in your life. Gives solid factual information.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1934
At this website from The Nobel e-Museum, read about Harold Clayton Urey (1893-1981 CE), the chemist awarded with a Nobel Prize "for his discovery of heavy hydrogen." Download Urey's Nobel Lecture, "Some thermodynamic properties of...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Half Life
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this module, students will explore the radioactive decay process in terms of balanced nuclear equations to discover the concept of half-life.
Other
Beautiful Chemistry: Beautiful Structures: Dna Nanostructures
DNA is the molecule of life, as life's secrets are encoded in DNA. In this interactive activity. we see the famous double helix structure of DNA.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Evidence of Chemistry
The students will learn to identify evidence that a chemical reaction has taken place. They will use the Internet to research evidence and find examples. They will look around their school and neighborhood for examples. They will perform...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Half Life Lab
This activity explains how students use a CBL2 and TI-83 or TI-84 calculator to collect and calculate the half-life of a barium isotope. Students can use an isogenerator to milk out a meta stable isotope of Barium with a short half-life....
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Changes of State: Chemical and Physical Changes
In this chemistry lab, students will investigate, observe, and describe a variety of chemical and physical changes in matter. They will understand that this is part of everyday life.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Physical Science: Nuclear Chemistry
A complete learning module with interactive activities as well as informational text to help students distinguish the characteristics and components of radioactivity.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Chemistry: Kinetics and Equilibrium
Through interactive activities in a module format, students learn about kinetics, collision theory, reaction rates, and rate laws. They will calculate rate laws from experimental data, concentration and time, and half-life of a reaction....
American Academy of Achievement
Academy of Achievement: Mario J. Molina, ph.d.
Read about the life of Mario J. Molina, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the danger that chlorofluorocarbons presented to the Earth's ozone layer long before anyone else recognized it. Includes a profile, videos,...
American Academy of Achievement
Academy of Achievement: Linus C. Pauling, ph.d.
A biography of Linus Pauling, winner of Nobel Prizes for Chemistry (1954) and Peace (1962). He spoke out against the use of nuclear weapons when it was an unpopular cause, and spent his life informing the public about a range of health...
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Environmental Chemistry: Carbon Cycle
Article explaining the importance of carbon as the basis for life, carbon dioxide's role in photosynthesis and respiration, carbon in the ocean and lithosphere, the impact of human activities on the carbon cycle, carbon that seems to be...
Other
Lund University Libraries: Directory of Open Access Journals
Open access journals are offered in all scholarly and scientific disciplines such as Biology and Life Sciences, History and Archaeology, and Physics and Astronomy. Site offers a search for new titles as well as archived journals....
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Physics & Chemistry: P H
Explains what pH is and its use in defining what acids and bases are. Also talks about the importance of pH for regulating metabolism in life forms. Includes a chart showing the pH values of common liquids. (Published: July 30, 2010)
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Half Life and Radioactive Dating
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains radioactive dating, how it works, and how carbon-14 is used to date the remains of living things.
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