Essential Chemistry: High school level chemistry site with great flash animations. Much material would work in middle school
Chemistry Demo Videos:
Purdue Univ: http://chemed.chem.purdue.edu/demos/index.html
Journal of Chemical Education. Ice bomb and Thermite are very good: http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/JCESoft/CCA/samples/index.html
Thermite in a flowerpot: http://www.ilpi.com/genchem/demo/thermite/index.html
Fascinating Science: An online interactive chemistry program, http://www.fascinatingscience.com/
Pharmaceutical Achievers. Learn about the origins of aspirin, antibiotics and the power of chemotherapy to treat cancer here. http://www.chemheritage.org/EducationalServices/pharm/pa/home.htm
Biographies of Chemists: http://www.chemheritage.org/classroom/chemach/index.html
Brownian Motion animation:
Some of the evidence for atoms is based on how they "push around" other
particles. This animation shows that and lets you mess around
with it too. http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/java/gas2D/gas2D.html
Bonding Review: MIT Powerpoint (HS/Coll. level) discussing the key points of orbitals and chemical bonding
Real life can crushing demonstration: Look at these pictures, how did they happen? Pretty amazing. http://www.delta.edu/slime/cancrush.html
General Chemistry Online A resource from Frostburg College that has a good questions answered section. A little of everything.
Great chem visuals: http://cwx.prenhall.com/petrucci/medialib/media_portfolio/index.html
A Sense of Scale: an online slide show demonstrating the scale of atoms and smaller things... http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/scale.html
The Periodic Table of Elements, electronic style http://chemlab.pc.maricopa.edu/periodic/periodic.html
Web Elements, another great periodic table site
http://www.webelements.com Bohr. Also see "It's Elemental" at http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/index.html
Model of the atom with animation http://www.visionlearning.com/library/module_viewer.php?mid=49
Caveman Chemistry: a very cool site with history
and instructions for making the top 25 chemical compounds in world
history from soap to mead. Go to "Browse the book" and find the chapter
you want. http://www.cavemanchemistry.com/
Materials and conversions calculator: http://www.allmeasures.com/Formulae/
Lab Skills and Safety: A site produced by Fordham Prep http://www.fordhamprep.org/gcurran/sho/sho/skills/skillsindex.htm
Bose-Einstein Condensate:http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/bec/
Forensic Chemistry links (Thanks to Ms. Mc Ferran for finding these!): http://science.uniserve.edu.au/school/curric/stage6/chem/forchem.html
Using Flame Tests to analyze unknown materials: http://www.webmineral.com/help/FlameTest.shtml
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