Content Videos (Lectures and animations to supplement lessons):
- Separation of Mixtures
- Effect of Heat on Substances
- Constituents of Matter
- Applications
Interactives (Online activities for student interaction & practice with content):
- Separation of Mixtures
- The Mixtures Lab (students drag-and-drop the correct tool needed to separate various mixtures)
- Fractional Distillation (students take a virtual tour of an oil refinery and learn about the process of distillation)
- Distillation: Oil Refinery (animated and interactive tutorial about the creation of fossil fuels and the process of refining crude oil by distillation)
- Lab Skills & Separating Methods (students access this online reading with great photos that explain common separation methods)
- Sugar & Salt Solutions Simulation (students inquire: What happens when sugar and salt are added to water? Pour in sugar, shake in salt, and evaporate water to see the effects on concentration and conductivity. Zoom in to see how different sugar and salt compounds dissolve. Zoom in again to explore the role of water)
- Effect of Heat on Substances
- States of Matter: The Basics Simulation (students heat, cool and compress atoms and molecules and watch as they change between solid, liquid and gas phases)
- States of Matter: Advanced Simulation (students watch different types of molecules form a solid, liquid, or gas and can add or remove heat and watch the phase change. Change the temperature or volume of a container and see a pressure-temperature diagram respond in real time. Relate the interaction potential to the forces between molecules)
- The Kinetic Theory Simulation (students pump gas molecules to a box and see what happens as you change the volume, add or remove heat, change gravity, and more. Measure the temperature and pressure, and discover how the properties of the gas vary in relation to each other)
- Constituents of Matter
- The Scale of The Universe (students zoom in/out to visualize relative size of atoms and their components!)
- Build An Atom! (students build an atom out of protons, neutrons, and electrons, and see how the element, charge, and mass change)
- NOVA Elements (Download Required. Students learn about chemical elements and molecular structure in this interactive activity from NOVA. Explore an interactive periodic table to learn more about each element, including its properties, uses, and other interesting facts. Build an atom in the atomic sandbox where you can experiment with atomic structure and determine how many electrons, protons, and neutrons you need to construct an element based on its atomic number and weight. Construct elements and molecules found in everyday objects, such as a cup of coffee, in the “Essential Elements” game)
- Atoms & Elements Activity (students click through this guided animation that teaches about atoms & elements)
- Particle Theory Simulation (students learn that elements consist of atoms represented by symbols, all all atoms contain protons, electrons and neutrons. Students use sliders to increase or decrease the number of protons and neutrons and observe the effect it has)
- Structures & Bonding (students learn that elements combine through chemical reactions to form compounds and that compounds contain different elements that are chemically bonded together)
- Compounds & Mixtures (students click through this interactive animation that teaches about compounds & mixtures)
Games (Online games for students to apply & test their content knowledge):
- Separation of Mixtures
- Chemical Mix-Up! (students must sort various substances into their categories of Elements, Compounds or Mixtures)
- Element, Compound or Mixture? (On the basis of its chemical composition, matter is classified into ‘elements’, ‘compounds’ and ‘mixtures’. In this quiz game, students are given a substance or a brief description of one, and must tell whether it’s an element, compound or mixture)
- Separating Mixtures Quiz (This quiz is over various methods used to separate mixtures. Using what students have learned, they select the best answer from the choices)
- Simple Distillation Setup: Timed Quiz (students view unlabeled distillation apparati and must label each piece of equipment)
- Elements, Compounds, Mixtures & Separation Techniques Quiz
- Cleaning Water Game (use separation techniques to clean untreated water)
- Reversible and Irreversible Changes (Learn about reversible & irreversible changes by testing what happens to different substances as you experiment with them. Find out what substances dissolve in water and lots of other interesting chemistry related facts. Can all substances be turned back to their original form after they mix with water or will they stay that way forever? Try dissolving flour, sugar and sand in a beaker of water, what happens? Is it what you expected? Is melting ice an irreversible change? How about cooking an egg? Challenge yourself to answer these questions and more with this cool science game)
- Effect of Heat on Substances
- States of Matter: Detective Mystery (Play the role of detective while completing challenges. Stolen codes have led to a robbery at a bank, it sounds strange but could a chef have something to do with it? Use a variety of kitchen tools and equipment to manipulate solids, liquids and gases and destroy the surveillance listening devices and bugs that are planted in the kitchen. Use your secret agent skills to think fast and solve the case)
- Solids, Liquids & Gases (Learn about solids, liquids and gases as you experiment with the conditions that change them from one form to another in this fun, interactive science game. Water is a common example as it exists in all three forms, you’ve no doubt seen it as ice, liquid water and steam. Challenge yourself to find the correct category for other examples such as milk, sand, rain, helium, wood and air. Watch what happens when you heat liquids and cool gases. The processes that change solids, liquids and gases from one form to another are important science topics, humans breathe in gases in the form of air and drink liquids such as water which help keep us alive)
- Melting Points (Learn about the melting points of different substances by experimenting with different temperatures in this interactive science game. Have fun as you heat and cool various solids and liquids. At what point do things like chocolate, aluminum, candle wax, butter and ice candy melt? What objects have the lowest melting points and which ones need high heat before they begin to change? Put them into the testing beaker and give it a try, you might be surprised by the results.)
- Kinetic Molecular Theory (answer questions correctly about Kinetic Theory and get the chance to shoot an ant across the yard! Strangely rewarding.)
- Gridlocks (Gridlocks are a fun way to learn the facts you need in Chemistry. Unlock the grids to gain entry to the next level and a secure knowledge of the chemistry involved. Based on the ideas behind Su Doku, Gridlocks have a twist that makes them more interesting, more fun, and more useful)
- Gridlocks: Level 1 (11-14s)
- Constituents of Matter
- Characteristics of Matter Hangman
- Elements, Atoms & Mixtures Matching Game
- Element Matching Game (Find the right chemical elements to match the descriptions. You can also read up on the properties of each group as they come by to learn more about them.)
- ChemGameTutor: Matter & Energy (Dr. Despair has captured the top 12 chemists of all time! Students must choose the “Matter & Energy” Level and use their knowledge to set them free!)
- ChemGameTutor: Naming Compounds (Dr. Despair has captured the top 12 chemists of all time! Students must choose the “Naming” Level and use their knowledge to set them free!)
- The Science of the Elements (See if you can beat the rest in this quiz about the chemical elements!)
- Gridlocks (Gridlocks are a fun way to learn the facts you need in Chemistry. Unlock the grids to gain entry to the next level and a secure knowledge of the chemistry involved. Based on the ideas behind Su Doku, Gridlocks have a twist that makes them more interesting, more fun, and more useful)
- Gridlocks: Level 1 (11-14s)
- Applications
- Oil Strike! (use your knowledge of fractional distillation in this oil management game in which you have to build oil refineries across the world and make a profit. If you answer the questions about oil production correctly you get a discount on various production costs.)
- Fractional Distillation: Oil Refinery Timed Quiz (students view an unlabeled oil refining fractional distillation apparatus and must label each piece of equipment)
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