RESOURCES FOR HIGH SCHOOL
CHEMISTRY TEACHERS
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• American Chemical Society Resources for High School Chemistry Teachers

  • ChemCom - Chemistry in the Community Instructional Program and Text

• AP Chemistry - Beginning and Building an AP Chemistry Program

  • Recommended AP Instructional Resources & Publications
    

• Benchmark Chemistry Assignments and Culminating Activities
  See STANDARDS page below for National and State Content Standards
  

• Chemistry Activities and Events - 

  • Chemistry Olympiad

  • National Chemistry Week   

  • National Mole Day      Mole Day Scavenger Hunt

  • Ideas for Celebration:  National Mole Day and National Chemistry Week 

  • Science Olympiad 
    

• Classroom Management Tools and Resources:  

  • A Worldwide Guide to Online Resources for Chemists - ChemistryGuide.org

  • Equipment and Supplies -   Contact, Providers and Information

  • Grants

  • Chemistry Quizzes Online and Online Quizmakers

  • Lab Organization
    Lab Grouping by Playing Cards Fall '06
    Lab Drawer and Locker Cabinet Organization  Fall '06
    Arrange these templates to fit your drawers or cabinets and
    then laminate them for ease in student organization of laboratory equipment.
    Lab Template-1  Lab Template-2  Lab Template-3

  • Lab Report - A College Model for Student Review You may wish to consider showing this to your students in preparation for a formally written laboratory report. 

  • Nancy Clark's Awesome Science Teacher Resources

  • Opening Day Activities & Questionnaires - Get to know your students FAST

  • Rubrics and other Assessment Tools

  • Safety Issues, Resources and Links

  • Standards and Curriculum Information  - 
      National and State Standards, Regents Exams, etc.

  • Student Preparedness Survey - Fall 2004
    The Student Preparedness Survey was conducted 9-30-04.  Feel free to use the student questionnaire to assess your own students.
    

• lnstructional Multimedia and Links:

  • BioChem Hub - Instructional links and resources

  • Creative Ideas for Integration of Film/TV Clips and other Technology into Instruction

  • ChemBalancer Online Software - Practice in balancing equations and element symbols for students by Sulan

  • CHEM 13 NEWS - An excellent publication with a nominal subscription fee which has articles and ideas that are very useful in classroom instruction.

  • ChemCom - Chemistry in the Community Instructional Program and Text

  • ChemMatters magazine shares full text from selected articles as well as a free Teacher's Guide with a wealth of in-depth information and classroom materials suggested by the topics in the current issue of the magazine. There's an extensive archive as well. 

  • Chemical Reactions Database - The Chemical Thesaurus: a free data base of chemical reactions

  • Chemistry Resources - The Science Lab - A comprehensive collection of websites in science

  • Chemistry Instructional Reference - Hands-on Chemistry - Hands-On Chemistry Activities With Real-Life Applications contains over 300 investigations designed to engage students in a genuine pursuit of science. This hands-on, inquiry-based approach to teaching and learning science follows recommendations set forth in the National Academy of Sciences' National Science Education Standards and the National Science Teachers Association's Scope Sequence and Coordination Project.

  • Element Websites - "A Hotlist of Chemical Elements" - Compiled by S. Highley

  • Jeopardy Game by L. Pallandre 

  • Least Squares Fit  [National Council of Teachers of Mathmatics]

    • Interactive Demo Online

    • Understanding the Least-Squares Regression Line with a Visual Model: Measuring Error in a Linear Model

    • Linear Least Squares Regression Calculator

  • Media Resources and Student Aids

  • New Teacher Resources

  • Online Simulations and Experiments
    Units ~ Graphing ~ Atomic Emission of Photons ~ Emission/Absorption Spectra ~ Ideal Gas Law 

  • Online Instructional Resources and Publications

  • Periodic Tables - Student Foldables to Download

    • Periodic Pyramid

    • Periodic Cube

  • PowerPoint Presentations for High School Chemistry:
    Links and Downloads  (Password Protected - Membership required - Join HERE)

  • Subject Specific Online Instructional Resources
        Atomic Models  
       Entropy for Beginners 
       Nuclear Chemistry
       Electron Configurations - excellent online visual
       Basic Thermochemistry
       VSEPR
       and MORE   

  • Teaching Technology Services/Resources - recommended software, hardware, homework sites and online instructional programs, etc.

  • Text Specific Resources - Simulation Resources and Media Links 
       (links disabled at the request of textbook publishers-Search each publisher individually)

  • The Science Lab - A comprehensive collection of websites in science and chemistry

  • The WWW Virtual Library -  Links for Chemists
    An Index of over 8400 Chemistry Resources on the Web

  • Website Media and Teaching Resources   

  • WebQuest Links for Chemistry and Excellent Online Student Projects!

  • World of Chemistry- Worksheets

• Interesting Instructional Resources

  • Chemistry and Art - A wonderful selection of labs and activities from Wellesley College.  Includes sections on Photography, Light and Color, Pigments and Painting, Metals: Etching and Corrosion, Fiber Arts

  • Chemistry Current Events Links

  • Chemistry History

    • Michael Faraday's Christmas Lectures - The Chemical History of a Candle

  • Chemistry Humor 

  • Chemistry Poetry  

  • Chemistry Quotations - Speaking Science Series (Searchable)

  • Chemistry(Science) and Literature Links - Searchable Database contains over 1,400 outstanding selections of literature recommended for children and adolescents related to the study of natural sciences and mathematics content.  Many of the selected titles provide opportunities for standards-based instruction and include fiction and nonfiction to accommodate a variety of interests and abilities. It also includes over 150 selections of high quality literature written in Spanish.

  • Chemical Thesaurus - Prepared by Dr. Mark R. Leach of  the University of Salford 
    Spring '04

  • "Inquiry Based Experiments in Chemistry" by Valerie Ludwig Lechtanski.  Read about it HERE.

  • Recommended Reading in Chemistry
    

• Professional Associations & Organizations

• Professional Development Information  - 
     National Board Certification Information
     David Brooks Online Coursework for High School Teachers, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
  

• Publications 

  • Publications (Online) of Interest

  • ChemMatters magazine shares full text from selected articles as well as a free Teacher's Guide with a wealth of in-depth information and classroom materials suggested by the topics in the current issue of the magazine. There's an extensive archive as well.

  • Electronic Education Newsletter (Free) from the ACS -  subscribe here.
    

• Recommended Reading in Chemistry  Fall '04
  

• Special Topics - 
    Environmental Grants, Activities and Resources
  

• Student Resources

  • Basic Skill Building and Tutorials in Chemistry for Your Students

  • Chemistry Current Events Links

  • Recommended Reading in Chemistry 

  • Spark Notes:  Chemistry Study Guides

  • Virtual Chemistry Club or VC2 has a mix of chemistry resources of interest to high school students-careers, science project ideas, forensic mysteries, sample Olympiad Test questions, etc.