Honors and AP Chemistry Websites:
For practice AP Chem problems and old tests for review:http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/
For a comprehensive site (soon to be linked to AP Central), with links to ALL topics listed in AP
Chemistry Content Outlines, register at:
http://apdl.rice.edu/DesktopDefault.aspx
For George Wiger's Electronic Homework System
http://chemistry2.csudh.edu/homeworkn7/hwintrocsn7.html
Gas Laws:
http://intro.chem.okstate.edu/NSFCCLI/GasLaw/GLP.htm
http://intro.chem.okstate.edu/1314F00/Laboratory/GLP.htm
http://cheminfo.chem.ou.edu/~mra/Kinetics/HBr.htm
Movie Demonstrations of different reactions.
http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/JCESoft/CCA/CCA0/SAMPMOVS.HTM
Web resource with many different website links.
http://www.canby.com/hemphill/chmfrm.htm
For a textbook website that includes conceptsummaries, tutorials (animated & interactive)and
practice questions (interactive)go to:http://www.wwnorton.com/college/chemistry/gilbert/home.htm
For chemistry I background tutorials and questionswith answers, go to:
http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/ChemTeamIndex.html
For AP study cards and predicting and classifying chemical reactions
http://chemmybear.com/
Simulations to show molecular interactions:
http://genchem1.chem.okstate.edu/CCLI/Startup.html
Using the History of Science in the Chemistry Classroom: This website emphasizes the historical
aspects of chemistry, focusing on scientists and their contributions. It offers annotated links to
general resources about using the history of science in teaching and history of science "entries,"
which have been aligned to a set on national science standards. Each of these entries links to specific
suggestions for using a historical figure or event in the classroom, a brief biographical sketch, and
annotated links for more information.
http://cse.edc.org/products/historyscience/default.asp
The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements: This website has a periodic table on the main page,
with each element having a page. On each element's page, entries of comic books that have
mentioned/used that element in their stories are shown (images of actual pages), often along with
commentary on how scientifically accurate the comic book has been.
http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/
The following website has good chapter outlines for AP Chemistry as well as good programs that can
be downloaded onto student's TI-83's.
http://www.sciencegeek.net/APchemistry/index.shtml
ChemFormula - This is a site that allows the downloading of a macro for Microsoft Word that
automates subscripts and superscripts in chemical formulas:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/5118/download.htm#PT
Kinetic Molecular Theory of Gases Simulator - This is an interactive applet, great for explaining KMT
in a 1st year course.
http://mc2.cchem.berkeley.edu/Java/molecules/
Interactive Radiation Exposure Calculator - Calculate your radiation exposure, based on where you
live, how you travel, etc. Helps put exposure from nuclear plants in perspective.
http://www.ans.org/pi/resources/dosechart/
Dihydrogen Monoxide - Spoof site about the dangers of DMHO. I like to use it, along with a news
report of a town in California that almost banned polystyrene, due to its DMHO content for first year
students. It stresses the importance of being able to speak chemistry.
http://www.dhmo.org/
Interactive Chart of the Nuclides - Interactive chart of the nuclides, great for discussing nuclear
decay.
http://www.nuclides.net/NUCLIDES_2000/Applets/Radioactive_Decay.htm
This is applicable to AP Labs. It has picture-descriptions of techniques, background explanations,
and clear procedures. The site is well organized and user-friendly.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chemlab/index.html
The American Chemical Society website: the largest organization for chemists and students. The
home page features a 'molecule of the week'
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/home.html
Review Worksheets, labs, safety posters, and more for basic chemistry review. Many of the labs use
household chemicals and materials.
http://misterguch.brinkster.net/freestuff.html
Model ChemLab Products; An interactive Lab Simulation for Windows that allows users and
instructors to perform pre-defined labs as well as develop their own lab simulations with the Lab
Wizard; Model ChemLab Standard allows users and students to perform pre-defined lab simulations
http://modelscience.com/products.html
For free evaluation software, http://modelscience.com/software.html
For currently available labs, http://modelscience.com/lablist.html
For flash animation of Tom Lehrer's Element song, go to
http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html
For the Vernier AP Chemistry Lab manual, go to
http://www.vernier.com/cmat/chema.html
For the LabPro packages and prices, go to
http://www.vernier.com/pkgs/packages.html?package=chem-labpro
For the Texas Instuments loaner program:
http://education.ti.com/us/resources/borrow/borrow.html
For MSDS Sites
http://www2.hazard.com/msds/index.php
To view the railroad tank car crushed by pressure:
http://www.delta.edu/slime/cancrush.html
Ion Exchange: Water Softening
http://ianrpubs.unl.edu/water/g1491.htm
For how to teach chemistry, which is student centered, at the college level:
http://www.pogil.org/
Access this site to view any of the 26 World of Chemistry series videos covering most of the major
topics in chemistry. Each video runs approximately 25 minutes:
http://www.learner.org/resources/series61.html?pop=yes&vodid=194876&pid=813#
For a comprehensive site, log onto Steve Marsden's website: http://www.chemtopics.com/
He has an extensive array of lecture notes, labs and demos, animations, links, etc. on everything
about chemistry you wanted to know but were afraid to ask ... and he has them extremely well-
organized so you can navigate his site easily.
The following FTP site has a number of lab simulations that can be used during pre-lab discussions
http://www.chem.iastate.edu/group/Greenbowe/sections/projectfolder
For example:
http://www.chem.iastate.edu/group/Greenbowe/sections/projectfolder/flashfiles/stoichiometry/aci
d_base.html is a link that brings you to an acid-base titration simulation. Students can see how a
titration is accomplished theoretically. There are other simulations that will allow you to generate
sample data, if need be.
www.sciencenewsforkids.org
This website created by the publishers of Science News publishes articles aimed at kids aged 9 – 14.
The articles are timely, interesting and cover a wide variety of topics, such as: chemistry and
materials, the environment, the human body, and space and astronomy. The chemistry and materials
articles include ideas such as nanocars, fireworks, gold, and ‘green’ vehicles. Each article also
includes links to relevant books and websites, word definitions, and questions about the article, as
well as teacher resources. While the material is geared at younger students, for high school students,
some of the articles may help increase their curiosity and their understanding.
A good activity dealing with acid rain can be found at
http://www.hubbardbrookfoundation.org/article/view/12940/1/2076/ This site shows how acid
rain occurs, what causes it and some history. The PDF is particularly good as a reading/learning
activity about acid rain, sulfates, nitrates, the calcium cycle and other chemistry related topics are
also discussed.
For movies of demonstrations and experiments with molecular explanations
http://chemmovies.unl.edu/Chemistry/BeckerDemos/BD000.html
For an index of experiments with explanations:
http://library.thinkquest.org/3310/lographics/experiments/index.html
For practice examples and solutions to common chemistry problems:
http://www.chemtutor.com/index.html
For the Mythbusters experiment with Nucleation Sites:
http://mythbusters-wiki.discovery.com/page/Diet+Coke+and+Mentos
For the teaching of chemistry:
http://people.moreheadstate.edu/fs/h.hedgec/sciteach.html
For alternate versions of AP Chemistry labs:
http://www.frontiernet.net/~jlkeefer/apchemlabs.htm
For sample NY Reagents Exams:
http://www.nysedregents.org/testing/scire/regentchem.html