Chemistry

-The chapters attempt to connect the chemistry with real life applications -The chapters include online tutorials and animations to help students visualize content -Each chapter comes with flashcards of key vocab terms for students to use -Each chapter also has an assessment quiz -The only thing not free (requiring payment) is the online e-book that goes along with the site and the "smartwork" for students
 * Website which has Online Chapters for Chemistry Units:**

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-Good way to connect chemistry with real life applications. Can look for daily products or devices and go into what their made of and how they are designed
 * Chemical Engineering and News - What's that Stuff?:**

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-Complete table of all elements showing the wavelengths that they absorb or emit. -Of great use for units dealing with electron energy orbitals and the EM spectrum
 * Chemistry Emission and Absorption Spectra of Elements:**

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-Website that has various isotopes of elements graphed on the "Isotope Belt of Stability" -Each isotope details the decay mode and decay chain so students can see how elements stabilize themselves by decaying into more stable forms -Requires JAVA
 * Chemistry Table of Nuclides:**

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Example chemistry lesson plan summaries:
 * Inquiry Based Lesson Plans**
 * A series of pranks and bad weight-loss choices land a group of friends in the hospital. Do they all have the same thing, or are these different problems entirely?
 * Your team has been chosen to represent one of the significant scientists who contributed to the current ideas surrounding atomic theory. These men have been accused by the International Foundation of Scientific Theory on CNN to be pseudoscientists and that their work, while it lead to the current theory and is the basis of the periodic table and how we classify all elements, is false.
 * The spill of an unknown chemical caused the evacuation of a local high school. What chemical was spilled? What caused the spill? Can such a spill be prevented in the future?

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This site has a few good graphics, a nice selection of Regents questions by unit, and some good assignments with using the Reference Tables. It's helpful for organizing my guided notes. []
 * Regents Chemistry Website**

Wish I'd found this earlier! A cool blog post on different representations of the Periodic Table. Some potential for cool webquests on the periodic table---especially the ones that have videos associated with each element. []
 * Different Periodic Tables**

Just taught the gas laws and it is hard without some good visuals. I have started checking Phet before every lesson now, and they have a great gas laws simulator. Ch-ch-ch-check it out! []
 * Gas Laws**

This is a link to a YouTube video that has the famous "The Elements" song by Tom Lehrer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJjJBs2OFkg&feature=related
 * Cool Hook for Intro to Elements:**

This website provides a lot of resources for each unit for Chemistry Teachers, including activities, games, demonstration ideas and lab ideas. @http://www.nclark.net/Chemistry
 * Chemistry Teacher Resource**