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The Catalyst: Chemistry Resources for the Secondary Education Teacher on the WWW

• Features resource links to sites dealing with AP Chemistry, experiments, safety, laboratory instruction, organizations, magazines, and more. Also includes a Teachers' Forum, High School Web Sites section, bulletin board, search engine, Q & A chemistry section, and conferences, jobs pages and more. The site is also available in Spanish. (5/2009)

A Teacher's Guide to Superconductivity for High School Students

• By Robert W. Dull of Largo High School and H. Richard Kerchner of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This site on superconductivity includes history, applications, chemistry, preparation, demonstrations, experiments, and problems with solutions. (5/2009)

ChemCom Teachers Resource Center

• From the Home Page: This site acts as a gathering place for teachers of ChemCom to exchange information and files with each other. All ChemCom teachers are invited to upload and download information, relating to the standard eight ChemCom topics, that they have constructed and believe to be useful in the day to day teaching of this course. This includes supplemental worksheets, labs and lab revisions, demonstrations and projects. ChemCom is a chemistry curriculum written for secondary school students by the American Chemical Society (ACS). It attempts to enhance science literacy by emphasizing chemistry's impact on society. It is aimed at the student who will become a citizen but not necessarily a scientist in a technological society. The standard eight units are: Supplying Our Water Needs; Conserving Chemical Resources; Petroleum: To Build? To Burn?; Understanding Food; Nuclear Chemistry in Our World; Chemistry, Air, and Climate; Health: Your Risks and Choices; The Chemical Industry: Promise and Challenge. (5/2009)

Summer Research Program for Science Teachers

• Provides information on Columbia University's Summer Research Program along with 232 lesson plans from previous participants. The Program provides middle and high school science teachers with sustained hands-on experience in scientific research so they can better understand the practice of science, and better transmit to their students and fellow teachers a feeling for its practice. Each teacher spends two consecutive summers working as a laboratory research assistant under the supervision of a Columbia faculty mentor. Opportunities are available in chemistry, as well as other sciences. The site also contains videotapes of the previous seminars available for purchase and a calendar of upcoming events. (5/2009)

Center for Polymer Studies

• The Center is devoted to interdisciplinary research in aspects of polymer, random, and fractal systems and to developing experimental and computational materials for high school and undergraduate education. The site features hands-on activities, laboratory experiments, and interactive visualization programs to encourage students to explore how fundamentally random microscopic events can give rise to fractal macroscopic patterns. Additional features include a virtual molecular dynamics laboratory and overviews of the Center's research projects. (5/2009)

Polymers and Liquid Crystals

• This site, maintained by Case Western Reserve University, provides an introduction at the college freshman level to polymer and liquid crystal chemistry. The site provides a Virtual Textbook and a Virtual Laboratory. The Virtual Textbook contains, in addition to the text, three-dimensional animations, video footage from experiments, still images and sound. In the Virtual Laboratory, the user performs experiments in areas such as polymer growth, phase transformations, and crystalline optics. A CD version of the PLC Tutorial is also available for purchase from the site. (5/2009)

Chemistry Education - American Chemical Society

• Provides information about ACS Education Division projects for elementary, secondary, and college chemistry programs, a variety of print and video resources for use in and out of the classroom, examination materials, teacher training workshops, and other professional development opportunities. (5/2009)

Awesome Chemistry Teacher Resources

• This site by Nancy Clark shares materials collected during her 37 years of teaching. Categories include Management Tips; Games, Puzzles, Songs, and Labs; Links; Science in the News; and National Standards. (5/2009)

Using Biofuels in the Classroom

• This is a very complete collection of biofuels lessons for the high school classroom. The lessons are broken down for each chapter of a standard textbook and include student data sheets and instructor notes. Lessons include making biodiesel fuel, testing various properties of the fuel and labs on using biodiesel by-products. Chemistry principles include, limiting reactants and percent yield, LeChatelier’s principle, colligative properties, periodic trends and more! The lessons were written by Erin Gawron from Heritage High School while working as part of the Georgia Intern Fellowships for Teachers (GIFT) program at the University of Georgia. She is also a Certified Biofuels Educator through the American Biofuels Council. (5/2009)

Steve Marsden's Chemistry Resources for Students and Teachers

• The website provides many useful curriculum links for secondary and college chemistry educators.  It includes links for chemistry topic lists, example lectures, demos, labs, and also general chemistry references. (5/2009)

A Complete Timeline for Atomic Structures &

Atomic Structure Timeline

• Both links present brief descriptions of events in the study of atomic structures, from the time of Democritus to the 1950s. (2/2010)