Understanding compounds and mixtures
vs pure elements. Interative periodic tables of the elements.
Home School Chemistry
Or learning chemistry with Tom Lehrer lyrics.
Compounds and Mixtures
Chemical of the Week
For AP Chemistry teens. Each week get a new handout and exercise
to do.
Chemicals Around the House
Select a room or go into the backyard and explore. How many products
can you find? Now look around your real home for chemicals you
could use for experiments. Store safely away from small children.
Incompatible Chemicals
These chemicals should never be allowed to come in contact with
one another, not even down the drain! ohio State University.
NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards
The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health provides
this database of chemicals. Use it to keep you and your family
safe when experimenting with chemicals.
Elements
By Tom Lehrer, whole song with all lyrics.
Carbon is 4 Ever
Your name is Bond...Carbon Bond. Through a series of spy files
and missions, you must gather information and learn about Carbon
and its compounds.
Element Games
Online and off you can play these games to help you remember
the elements.
Elements
at Walmart (31)
It's amazing how many elements you can buy in reasonably pure
form at Walmart: My list currently contains 31 elements. (When
I say "Walmart" I really mean any combination of grocery
store, hardware store, and pharmacy.
Homemade
Hydrogen
There is a world of difference between watching someone use a
special aparatus to make hydrogen in front of the class or on
television, and doing it yourself using nothing you don't already
have at home right now.
The
Structure of Metal
At the atomic heart of metal is a crystalline structure-tightly
packed atoms arranged in orderly rows. This feature explores
this heart and reveals what it is that gives metal its special
characteristics and how metal behaves under the stress of heat
and outside forces.
Periodic Tables
Chemical Elements
My name is Yinon Bentor, and I created Chemical Elements.com
as my 8th grade science project several years ago. Since then,
I have continued to update the site in my free time, and the
site is now very different from the original design.
David's Whizzy Periodic Table
Watch the electrons spin around in their shells when you select
an element from the periodic table.
The Elements, by Tom Lehrer
Sing along with Professor Tom Lehrer as he sings the elements
of the periodic table in this Flash animation.
The Periodic Table
Acrobat Files of the Periodic Table arranged in different formats.
You are welcome photocopy these and distribute to students.
The Periodic Table
The Periodic Table is nature's rosetta stone. To chemists the periodic table reveals the organizing principles of matter, which is to say, the organizing principles of chemistry. At a fundamental level, all of chemistry is contained in the periodic table.
Printable Periodic Table of Elements
Includes the Atomic Number, Atomic mass, Symbol, Name, Electronegativity, Density, Ionization energy, Boiling point, Melting point, Electron Configuration, Oxidation States, Ground State Level, Covalent radius, and Van der Waals radius. If you typically work with a different set of properties, you can download the spreadsheet and add in your own numbers.
The WebElements Scholar Edition
A high quality source of information on the WWW about the periodic
table for students. You will find many pictures showing element
structures and periodic properties.
The Wooden Periodic Table Table
A real table with cups under each block of wood, holding the
actual element. Loads of information about each element, too,
should you want to collect your own.
The secret to giving your kids a really great homeschool science education...even if you don't know much science yourself, or don't have the time to teach it.
For students, DIY hobbyists, and science buffs, who can no longer get real chemistry sets, this one-of-a-kind guide explains how to set up and use a home chemistry lab, with step-by-step instructions for conducting experiments in basic chemistry.
Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life
by John Emsley
Chemicals really are amazing, and it's rewardingly fun to
find out how they fit into our diets, our biochemistry, and our
daily lives, especially when the education is hidden in fact-filled
essays suitable for party entertaining.
The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey into the Land of the Chemical Elements
(Science Masters Series)
by P. W. Atkins
In The Periodic Kingdom , P. W. Atkins imagines the
table as a landscape, with fields of metals, pools of mercury
and bromine, clouds of gases, and the offshore island of rare
earths. He describes the history of this metaphoric kingdom and
shows how its laws are those of physical chemistry: they are
the expression in the visible world of the invisible dance of
subatomic particles.
The Periodic Table:: Elements with Style
by Adrian Dingle
This is a really cute book about the periodic table. It introduces each element and gives each element a personality so that kids can learn and memorize them more easily.
