Educational Resources: Chemistry

This collection of lessons and web resources is aimed at classroom teachers, their students and students' families.

Lessons and activities

K-12 Curriculum: Chemistry

For educators (grades K–12)

TeachEngineering offers a wide array of chemistry curriculum resources that integrate engineering with fundamental concepts such as acids and bases, physical chemistry and the periodic table.

Explore Science: Let's Do Chemistry kit

For educators, students (grades K–12), general public 

This site has hands-on activities and professional development resources to explore chemistry concepts and their connections to everyday life. Resources are provided in English and Spanish. 

Morphing Matter for Girls

For parents, educators and students (grades 9–12)

This initiative brings fun, hands-on STEM exploration activities to girls and encourages them to design creative projects with morphing materials, in the contexts of fashion, food, ecology and more.

Videos

A researcher at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory discusses a visualization of a balls-and-sticks model of a molecular chemistry dataset on the CAVE2 System with students.

Chemistry Now

This video series explores the chemistry of common objects and the changes they undergo.

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Science For Kids: 4 States of Matter!

Everything around you is made of matter. Learn about the four different states of matter: solids, liquids, gases and plasmas.

What is an Aqueous Chemist?

Fort Hays State University professor Hendratta Ali takes us to her lab in a tropical estuary (the tidal mouth of a large river) on the Atlantic coast.

How to Create On Demand Renewable Energy

One of the biggest challenges in harnessing renewable energy from wind and solar power is storing energy collected during daylight or windy conditions for use at other times. Mechanical engineer and 2023 NSF Waterman Award recipient Asegun Henry talks about how thermal energy is ultimately the key to renewable energy's success.

Images

A diamond under interrogation in a home built confocal microscope

The clear wafer at the center of the confocal microscope is a diamond plate with atomic-sized flaws. Green, orange and red lasers excite these flaws to manipulate and measure them, which allows for measuring small magnetic fields at nanometer-length scales.

Credit: David Kelly Crow/Princeton University.

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A rendering of stylized molecules known as acenes, emitting red, orange, yellow, green, and blue light. Acenes are chains of fused, carbon-containing rings that have unique optoelectronic properties, making them useful as semiconductors.

Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT.

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A simulation models the molecular dynamics of a saltwater solution. Water molecules are shown in red and white, chloride ions in green and sodium ions in blue.

Credit: Iurii Chubak/Sorbonne University.

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