Chemistry: Chemistry Educator Resources

Video presentations from Flinn Scientific

Disc 1: Section 1, Introduction to chemistry -- Section 2, Units and unit conversions -- Section 3, Significant figures in calculations -- Section 4, Temperature -- Section 5, Density -- Disc 2: Section 6, Atomic theory of matter, part 1 -- Section 7, Atomic theory of matter, part 2 -- Section 8, Atomic theory of matter, part 3 -- Section 9, Atomic number, mass number, and isotopes -- Section 10, Atomic mass of an element -- Disc 3: Section 11, Overview of the Periodic Table -- Section 12, Naming Molecular compounds -- Section 13, Ions and ionic charge -- Section 14, ionic compounds -- Section 15, ionic compounds with polyatomic ions -- Section 16, hydrate compounds.

Disc 1: Section 1, Molecular mass and formula mass -- Section 2, Avogadro's number and the mole, part 1 -- Section 3, Avogadro's number and the mole, part 2 -- Section 4, Percent mass and empirical formulas, part 1 -- Section 5, Percent mass and empirical formulas, part 2 -- Disc 2: Section 6, Writing and balancing chemical reactions, part 1 -- Section 7, Writing and balancing chemical reactions, part 2 -- Section 8, Reaction stoichiometry, part 1 -- Section 9, Reaction stoichiometry, part 2 -- Section 10, Limiting reactants, part 1 -- Disc 3: Section 11, Limiting reactants, part 2-- Section 12, Percent yield in chemical reactions -- Section 13, Molar concentration of solutions, part 1 -- Section 14, Molar concentration of solutions, part 2-- Section 15, Dilution of solutions -- Section 16, Solutions in chemical reactions, part 1 -- Section 17, Solutions in chemical reactions, part 2.

Disc 1: Section 1, Electrical Properties of Aqueous Solutions -- Section 2, Calculating Ion Concentrations in Solutions -- Section 3, Strong and Weak Acids -- Section 4, Strong and Weak Bases -- Disk 2: Section 5, Acid-Base Reactions and Net Ionic Equations - Part 1 -- Section 6, Acid-Base Reactions and Net Ionic Equations - Part 2 -- Section 7, Acid-Base Titrations - Part 1 -- Section 8, Acid-Base Titrations - Part 2 -- Section 9, Acid-Base Titrations - Part 3 -- Section 10, Acid-Base Titrations - Part 4 -- Section 11, Acid-Base Titrations - Part 5 -- Disk 3: Section 12, Acid-Base Titrations - Part 6 -- Section 13, Acid-Base Titrations - Part 7 -- Section 14, Solubility of Ionic Compounds -- Sect 15, Precipitation Reactions and Net Ionic Equations - Part 1 -- Section 16, Precipitation Reactions and Net Ionic Equations - Part 2.

On these DVDs, Jeff Fleetwood utilizes a dry erase board to work out chemistry problems that many students find difficult and shares tips and tricks to advance student success. Disc 1. Measurements, significant figures, conversions -- Basic atomic structure -- Naming compounds and writing formulas -- Moles and chemical quantitiies -- Chemical equations -- Disc. 2. Stoichiometry -- Electron behavior and arrangement -- Periodic trends -- Thermochemistry -- Disc. 3. Ions and covalent bonding -- Gas laws -- Solutions -- Rates of reactions/equilibrium (part I) -- Disc 4. Rates of reactions/equilibrium (part II) -- Acids and bases -- Redox/electrochemistry -- Nuclear chemistry -- Miscellaneous stuff.

An American Chemical Society, Committee on Professional Training resource

"Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.; additional terms may apply.'-- WikiBooks

From the website: "This "online textbook" is designed to provide a thorough, in-depth treatment of this topic at the first-year college or advanced-HS levels, with a special focus on the underlying concepts." Highly recommended in Choice Reviews Online, 2008

This unit will introduce the course and cover the basics of biochemistry and cell composition.

"Celebrating Chemistry is designed to engage and educate children (Grades 4-6) in the basic principles of chemistry and are available in both English and Spanish. Most editions are aligned with either National Chemistry Week (NCW) or Chemists Celebrate Earth Week (CCEW) and contain articles, experiments, and puzzles based on each year’s themes."-- American Chemistry Society.

The Chemistry Collective project is currently funded by the National Science Foundation. Project software is available free of charge to all educators and students.

Chemistry Daily advertises itself as a free resource for chemistry students.

Steven Murov with assistance from Rob Meador, Marc Wezdecki, John Wiley & Sons, 1st edition, 2/97, updated as needed, latest revision 10/31/12

An Univ. of California-Davis resource

From Choice Reviews Online: "Part of the Education section of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) website, Learn Chemistry features primary to graduate-school level teaching and learning materials. Currently, the site contains nearly 4,000 resource pages, including games, presentations, quizzes, tutorials, blogs, videos, and podcasts."

MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy.

A commercial site that links to free educational videos

The mission of Online Labs is "to serve as a comprehensive, encyclopedic reference about online labs in a variety of subjects, particularly virtual laboratory simulations for science education." -- website

University of California

A community for teachers and students of inorganic chemistry

Highly recommended in Choice Reviews, this web resource developed by Professor Claude H. Yoder (Franklin & Marshall College).

Iowa State Univ.

A Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) at the California State University listing of chemistry simulations

"The Molecular Workbench (MW) software: Is a modeling tool for designing and conducting computational experiments across science. Provides an authoring system for instructional designers to create and publish model and simulation-based curriculum materials. Delivers an interactive learning environment that supports science inquiry. Is free and open-source. -- website

An University of Alberta website, it includes interactive tutorials, information on laboratory rules and safety, laboratory technique videos, and tips for writing lab reports.

MIT OpenCourseware videos

American Chemical Society identified virtual chemistry sites