Helpful Links
Below are some links I feel with help you better understand chemistry. These links will also be explored in class.
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Erik’s Chemistry http://members.tripod.com/~EppE/index.htm
This website was designed by a PhD chemistry student and is a collection of Chemistry, AP Chemistry, and Organic Chemistry notes that he has collected over his years of study in high school, college, and graduate school. His notes include things such as chemical formulas, elements and names, metric prefixes, atom structures, boiling points, and many other useful chemistry facts. There are also sections of the site titled “Chemistry Images,” where students can view 3-D structures of atoms, and “Chemistry Humor,” which has chemistry comics and jokes.
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Chemistry Experiment Simulations http://www.chem.iastate.edu/group/Greenbowe/sections/projectfolder/animationsindex.htm
This website was created for introduction to college chemistry but would work very nicely in a high school chemistry class, especially an A.P. chemistry class. The website provides animations as well as interactive simulations of chemistry experiments. Through this websites the students are able to virtually complete chemistry experiments. This would be a great website to use in a classroom that might not have up to date laboratory equipment or that has a high student to lab equipment ratio.
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ChemWeb Online http://library.thinkquest.org/10429/
This website is designed as a study helper for students in any chemistry class – high school, A.P., honors, and even college level chemistry. This site is an introduction to chemistry that would be covered in a first year chemistry course. It lists topics covered in the first year ranging from mathematic review all the way to nuclear chemistry. Each topic is broken down into sub-topics and there are graphics, charts, demonstrations, and information for each. There are also questions after each topic to test the students’ understanding. This would be a great website for students to use in the classroom, as well as at home, to further their understanding of what is taught in class.
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Creative Chemistry http://www.creative-chemistry.org.uk/
This website provides full-color worksheets, teaching notes for fun activities, and around three hundred pages of question sheets and practical guides for Chemistry. The site also has fun chemistry puzzles, interactive revision quizzes and molecular models. This is a very useful site for chemistry teachers to collect ideas for lessons and to download and print worksheets and activities for students.
