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Top Chemistry Websites

What's That Stuff?
What exactly is in your toothpaste?
What about that paper you’re writing on or the bug spray you use in summer?
This site puts science into everyday life, with informative descriptions of the chemistry behind the products we use on a regular basis.

Chemistry Comes Alive: Sample Movies - From the Journal of Chemical Education.
Exciting movies of some explosive, flaming, and colorful chemical reactions. You will need the free QuickTime Player to watch.

ChemMatters - Great online resource for High School chemistry teachers brought to you by the American Chemical Society. Pdf versions of "ChemMatters" magazine, geared towards a high school audience, are available online along with the corresponding teachers’ guides.

A Chemical Jigsaw Puzzle - Learning basic chemistry is even more fun when it's a puzzle! Learn the concept of valency and how to balance equations using this fun visual and tactile method.

Food and Science - Students can learn chemistry through cooking! This site for teachers has lots of fun lesson plans that link chemistry and food preparation.

The Periodic Table of Comic Books - Comics and chemistry together? What could be better? Click on an element in the periodic table and see the comics associated with that element.

The pH Factor - This site will help teachers introduce the concepts of acid and base to middle school students. There are lesson plans, classroom activities, and a teachers guide.

Delights of Chemistry - A trip to this site is sure to spark your interest in chemistry. You can watch videos of exciting chemistry demonstrations, view experiments illustrated with photos and complete with explanations, and browse through a chemical reaction photo gallery.

Chembalancer - This online game with visual aids can help beginning chemistry students learn how to balance chemical equations.

Reactive Reports - Learn about exciting developments in chemistry and related fields by checking out this Web-based chemistry magazine.

Read about the molecule behind a Biblical plague, a marine bacteria that can bubble-wrap iron, and a compound found in a Native American herbal remedy that may hold the key to overcoming antibiotic resistance.
The articles are accessible to a lay audience.

The Learning Matters of Chemistry - Check out the "Computer Graphics" section, which has very cool animations of famous experiments and illustrates important principles of chemistry.

Also, visit the "Interactivy" section for a game of "Periodic TableTris"--a Tetris-like game.Simple, Common, and Interesting Molecules - Ever wonder about the three-dimensional chemical structure of aspirin?
How about caffeine?
Check out this site from the Indiana University Molecular Structure Center.

A Visual Interpretation of the Table of Elements - An innovative and elegant visual tour through the periodic table. Each of the 109 elements is accompanied by a visual image, as well as a description and history (including the origin of its name). These pages are image heavy, and take a while to load.

Multimedia Molecule Extravaganza - Explore animated multimedia movies of DNA and other complex molecules. This is an excellent upper level chemistry resource. Requires QuickTime Player.

Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab - This densely packed site has scads and scads of excellent science and chemistry experiments you can try at home, as well as science book reviews, science tips and more, all delivered in a highly irreverent style.-->

Polymers &

Liquid Crystals - A well- constructed and informative site. Learn basic concepts and check out "downloadable" simulations.

The Macrogalleria - Learn about polymers and polymer science. The site really does take you through a mall (hence the "Macrogalleria") to demonstrate how polymers are used in everyday products.

BioChemNet - (now links to High School Hub. There are still many biology and chemistry links)- An impressive collection of links to biology and chemistry sites.

Chemist's Art Gallery -Animations and visualizations of molecules, polymers, cells, etc. I'm not sure what all the molecules and polymers are, but they sure are pretty!

Chemistry Teaching Resources - The most comprehensive listing of chemistry teaching resources we've come across.

Chemicool Periodic Table - A clickable periodic table that gives in-depth information on each element. The most complete periodic table we've seen on the web to date.

WebElements - A clickable periodic table! Find the atomic weight for beryllium or gallium or any element. An excellent chemistry resource.



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