High School Chemistry: Resources for Students, Teachers and Parents
Chemistry class gets down to the nitty-gritty—moles of atoms and molecules that come together in covalent and ionic bonds. You’ll learn what’s going on around you even when you can’t see it, and that the smallest of changes can make a big difference. In the High School Chemistry Web Guide, students and parents will find chemistry help with homework and test prep, while teachers will get lesson plans and classroom tools to make teaching chemistry fun.
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Expand All Guide SectionsHigh School Chemistry for Students
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Teaching Chemistry
Even though we’re dealing with atoms and tiny molecules, chemistry is best learned through experience and real-world examples. Teaching chemistry is made easier with help from the Web.
Insights for Teaching Chemistry
- Working from a chemistry textbook? Check the publisher’s Web site to find additional chemistry materials online, and ways to differentiate the material for students at different levels. Textbook publishers with enhanced online content include McDougal Littell and Pearson Prentice Hall.
- We usually avoid recommending sites that are mere directories of links to outside sources. In our education guides, we make exceptions to this rule for lesson plans and student activities to provide you with as much helpful content as possible.
- There are tons of free online chemistry resources, so don’t be fooled into paying for something. We’ll show you where to find the best chemistry resources that don’t cost a cent.
Top Sites for Teaching Chemistry
For chemistry worksheets and classroom tools ...
The ChemCollective
is a virtual library of interactive materials that aim to make chemistry relevant to the real world. Access chemistry activities, tests, tutorials and simulations, or create your own to add to the site.
Resources for Chemistry Educators
has a teacher section with links to tests and quizzes, online media, podcasts, tutorials and even chemistry-related humor. Use it as a reference when planning a unit, and for specifics throughout the year.
Amazing Chemistry Teacher Resources,
a Web site by retired high school chemistry teacher Nancy Clark, has links to experiments, worksheets, tutorials, videos and more. Look for resources on topics like the atom, forensics, nuclear chemistry, gas laws and others.
For chemistry lesson plans ...
Illinois Institute of Technology's
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE) project has nearly 200 chemistry lessons. Posted by teachers in the IIT education programs, the lessons are aimed at various levels, so some searching is required.
The Science Spot
has chemistry lesson plans complete with worksheets. Scroll down to find links to Internet lessons and activities, as well as chemistry trivia to incorporate into lessons and tests.
TeAch-nology
links to general chemistry lessons, labs and more from around the Web. Also find more specific lesson plans on atomic structure, chemical reactions, elements and compounds, and states of matter.
For other chemistry resources…
Molecule of the Month
has information about molecules updated monthly, a good way to introduce molecules one at a time.
The Particle Adventure,
produced in part by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, provides an overview and classroom activities about quarks, dark matter, antimatter, neutrinos and more.
ThinkQuest Library's
Hi! Hydrogen has online tutorials, games and experiments all about hydrogen. Students can do experiments with hydrogen online at the Experimental Lab.
Chemistry at Home
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