Below you will find web links, extra printables, and other resources to use along with the Chemistry units in the Layers of Learning curriculum. Here’s a link to our Amazon Store with lots of fun kits, games, and more resources to go with the Chemistry units.
Chemistry is sold as a single volume and as individual units, which are like chapters within the Chemistry book. Here’s a link to a free printable cover to accompany all of your Chemistry PDF units.
Matter
- Matter YouTube Playlist
- Chem4Kids States of Matter
- DK Find Out States of Matter
- ABCya States of Matter game
- Science Notes: What is Matter?
- Matter Quiz
- Advanced Matter Quiz
- Khan Academy Atoms, Compounds, and Ions
- Khan Academy Electronic Structure of Atoms
Elements
- Elements YouTube Playlist
- Read this article for kids that explains how the periodic table is organized.
- An online periodic table of the elements that has pop-up informational boxes when you click on each element
- An online periodic table of the elements that has videos, podcast, and articles attached to each element when you click on it. This one also has images that show or represent each element, some of them are the old alchemical symbols.
- An article about phlogiston theory that explains the history, the theory, and why this wrong theory helped advance science
- Practice problems for electron configuration
- Electron configuration quiz from Khan Academy
- An online quiz game to become familiar with the periodic table
- A board game called Periodic that teaches and quizzes on the periodic table of the elements
- An online interactive demonstration of how atoms can be rearranged to make new things. Your kids can use ball models or snap cubes to make their own models of the six molecules shown
- Khan Academy Periodic Table
Bonding
- Bonding YouTube Playlist
- Have younger kids 7 to 9, read this article about bonding
- Quiz yourself on valence electrons and other chemistry topics
- Play with bonding atoms and making molecule models with this virtual simulator
- Try this virtual molecule builder that lets you explore molecular geometry and bond angles
- Use this mole calculator to check your own work
- Read this funny article about a mole of moles
- Khan Academy series of lessons on bonding
- Khan Academy on moles
- Khan Academy on naming monatomic ions and ionic compounds
Reactions
- YouTube playlist for Reactions
- Learn to balance chemical equations and then play a game
- Khan Academy video on Balancing Chemical Equations
- This tool will balance chemical equations for you. Use it to check your work or figure out an equation that is stumping you.
- Try this visual tool that lets you balance chemical equations
- Peruse a list of chemistry careers and the education and training required to have them
- Read Khan Academy lesson on Single Displacement Reactions
- Read Khan Academy on Double Displacement Reactions
- Watch the reaction of sodium in water, a single displacement reaction
Solutions
- YouTube Playlist for Solutions
- Play with a simulator that shows how sugar dissolves
- A simple simulator that shows a salt crystal dissolving in different temperatures of water
- Practice molarity calculations on Khan Academy
- A tutorial on molarity and then practice problems
- An article that explains the Golden Rain experiment
Gases
- YouTube Playlist for Gases
- Play with this online gas law simulator to see how gases behave
- Another gas law simulator
- An online quiz about gases for older students
- Gas law equations practice problems for high school
- Khan Academy course with videos and practice problems for the Ideal Gas Laws
- Khan Academy course with videos and practice problems for stoichiometry
- Practice balancing chemical equations and working stoichiometry problems
- Create your own stoichiometry quiz with varying levels of difficulty
Acids & Bases
- YouTube Playlist for Acids & Bases
- Play with acids and bases in an online simulator
- Learn about the properties of acids and bases with a virtual lab
- A simple explanation of acids and bases for kids
- An article about the pH scale with a free printable
- 50 experiments with acids and bases you can do with kids
- Make turmeric indicator papers and then experiment with acids and bases
- An explanation of neutralization reactions for high schoolers
- Khan Academy course on acids and bases
Oxidation & Reduction
- YouTube Playlist for Oxidation & Reduction
- Read a short explanation of how oxidation and reduction reactions are important for soils
- Play with an online virtual lab doing oxidation and reduction experiments
- Khan Academy Lesson on Redox Reactions
- Redox Reaction Lesson & Problems
- Redox Reactions Quiz
Carbon
- YouTube Playlist for Carbon
- An article about naming organic compounds with quizzes for high schoolers
- An excellent quiz to practice naming organic compounds
- A video about sp hybrid bonds for advanced students
- An easy to read explanation of polymers
- Read this article with high schoolers about the debunked theory of vitalism and the argument that maybe it isn’t debunked
- Fun website with links to experiments, quizzes, teaching resources, and games about polymers for younger kids
- Organic Chemistry from Khan Academy. Advanced students can do this complete course independently after completing Layers of Learning Chemistry or focus on Bond Line Structures and Unit 3 on naming compounds.
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