TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How to Speed Up Chemical Reactions (And Get a Date)
This video explores by analogy what factors speed up reaction rates in chemical reactions. [4:56] Includes a brief quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
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Chiral Publishing
Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Process of Chemical Reactions [Pdf]
This chemistry chapter covers everything about chemical reactions. Read about the collision theory, rates of chemical reactions, reversible reactions, and chemical equilibrium. Many pictures and graphs will help to explain the concepts.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Chemical Reactions
This web-based activity gives students an opportunity to write chemical reactions, balance chemical equations, and explain what is happening during a given chemical reaction. Also addressed is the effects of concentration and temperature...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Factors Influencing Rates of Chemical Reactions
This lab investigates the factors that influence rates of reactions. Students will develop a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, collect data, then draw a conclusion based on the data.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Controlling Chemical Reactions
This lesson focuses on comparing the reaction rate of chemical reactions with different surface areas.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Reversible Reactions
Watch a reaction proceed over time. How does total energy affect a reaction rate? This model represents an analogy of chemical reactions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Chemical Reaction Rate
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of chemical reaction rate and factors that influence it.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Chemical Reactions: Factors Which Influence Rate of Reaction
In this activity, students investigate and discover how surface area, concentration, and temperature affect the rate of a chemical reaction. This lab is designed for students to practice good experimental tests of hypotheses, synthesize...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Reactions & Rates
Explore what makes a reaction happen by colliding atoms and molecules. Design experiments with different reactions, concentrations, and temperatures. When are reactions reversible? What affects the rate of a reaction?
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Factors Affecting Reaction Rate
This lesson will describe the factors affecting reaction rate, including temperature, stirring (agitation), surface area (particle size), concentration.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Chapter 6: Chemical Change
Twelve interactive chemistry lessons about chemical changes complete with handouts and animations.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Keep It Bottled Up: Linear Rates of Pressure Increase
When two or more chemicals react, other substances such as gases may be produced. The rate at which the reaction takes place can be affected by a number of different factors including temperature. In this activity, you will see how...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Rates of Change
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is part 4 of a 4 part series to include the nature of chemical reactions, reaction types, and balancing chemical equations.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Keep It Bottled Up: Linear Rates of Pressure Increase
In this activity, students' examine how temperature affects the rate of gas production during a chemical reaction. They measure this rate by recording the pressure variation using a pressure sensor and model the pressure data using a...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Reaction Rate
This lesson will describe factors that can affect the rate of a chemical reaction.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Limiting Reactant Percent Yield
A video lesson which explains how to determine the percent yield of a substance using the theoretical yield of the chemical reaction. [5:13]
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Chemistry: Kinetics and Equilibrium
Through informational text, interactive practice problems, virtual simulations, and video clips, students learn about reaction rates and equilibrium.
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College: Chem Lab: Coordination Chemistry: Kinetics of Ligand Exchange
In this experiment, you will complete the study of the mechanism of ligand exchange. The reaction will be followed colorimetrically and the rates of exchange and ligand isomerization will be measured. Requires Java plug-in.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activation Energy
Learn about activation energy, transition state, and reaction rate.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Activation Energy
This site from the Wikipedia encyclopedia contains a qualitative explanation of activation energy, explaining what it is and why it is necessary. Links are also provided throughout the article for additional information.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Wizardry and Chemistry
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...