Chemistry Resources on the Internet

1. Chemistry Resources on the Internet TT 2009

2. What’s available? • Textbook type resources • Animations • Databases • Tutorials • Interactive whiteboard animations • Molecular modeling • Free software downloads • Virtual experiments • Videos

3. Textbook-type resources • Easy to find through a search engine • Good for teacher and student reference • Examples: • http://www.chemguide.co.uk/index.html#top • http://www.mpcfaculty.net/mark_bishop/Chemistry_1A.htm • http://www.wpbschoolhouse.btinternet.co.uk/

4. Animations • There are so many! The page below has lots • of excellent animations for IB level chemistry • http://www.chem.iastate.edu/group/Greenbowe/sections/projectfolder/animationsindex.htm • Hybridization • http://www.mhhe.com/physsci/chemistry/essentialchemistry/flash/hybrv18.swf • NaCl dissolving in water • http://www.mpcfaculty.net/mark_bishop/NaCl_dissolves.htm • Explore learning • http://www.explorelearning.com

5. Databases • RSC chemistry database • http://www.chemsoc.org/networks/learnnet/data/index.htm • Periodic Tables • http://www.schoolscience.co.uk/periodictable.html • http://periodic.lanl.gov/default.htm • http://library.thinkquest.org/19957/ • Compound database • http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/name-ser.html • Molecule database • http://www.3dchem.com

6. Tutorials • Balancing Equations • http://richardbowles.tripod.com/chemistry/balance.htm • Writing Ionic Formulae • http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/kits/kit_ionic_compound.htm • l • Revision questions • http://www.ewart.org.uk/science/patterns/pat_index.htm • Skoool.co.uk • http://lgfl.skoool.co.uk/

7. Interactive whiteboard resources • echalk • http://www.echalk.co.uk/ • Games • http://www.activescience-gsk.com/home.cfm

8. Molecular modeling • Great models that you can move! • Alkanes: • http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/library/hydrocarbons/ • Shapes of molecules: • http://www.molecules.org/VSEPR_list.html • Vitamins: • http://www.chemistry.ccsu.edu/crundwell/Galleries/nmg.htm • Ionic and Atomic Radii: • http://www.wsu.edu/~wherland/ • Spectroscopy: • http://www.umass.edu/microbio/chime/ir-spect/index.htm • Organic compounds: • http://www.jbpub.com/organic-online/chime/mols/index.htm

9. Free software downloads • http://www.acdlabs.com/download/ • For Chem Sketch 8.0 freeware, allows you • to draw molecules easily and convert to 3D • http://www.umass.edu/microbio/chime/getchime.htm • To download chime so you can manipulate • Molecules on web pages that use chime

10. Virtual experiments • Virtual Lab • http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/vrchemistry/LiveChem/transitionmetals_content.html • Electrolysis • http://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/research/innovationassessmentlearning/enigma/simulations/electrolysis/electrolysis.html • Crocodile Chemistry • http://www.crocodile-clips.com/crocodile/chemistry/index.jsp • Virtual lab to download • http://www.chemcollective.org/applets/vlab.php • http://modelscience.com

11. Videos • Lots of experiments • http://www.pc.chemie.uni-siegen.de/pci/versuche/english/kapitel4.html • Webcasts • http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/vrchemistry/webcast/ • Teachers TV • http://www.teachers.tv/searchArchive.do • Experiments & Demos • http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/vrchemistry/FilmStudio/fshome.htm

12. GO SEARCH!