Handout
Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Atoms

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site provides a detailed overview of atoms. Content explores an atom's structure, as well as what ions are, how atoms bond, what compounds are (including how to name compounds), and what isotopes are.
eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Elements and Atoms, the Building Blocks of Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an overview of elements and atoms, the building blocks of matter.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Biology: Chemistry of Life: Matter, Elements, and Atoms

For Students 9th - 10th
Did you know matter is made up of atoms? In this article learn about the smallest unit of matter called the atom.
Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: University of Colorado: Build and Atom

For Students 9th - 10th
Build an atom out of protons, neutrons, and electrons, and see how the element, charge, and mass change. Then play a game to test how the ideas work!
Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Build an Atom

For Students 9th - 10th
Build an atom out of protons, neutrons, and electrons, and see how the element, charge, and mass change. Then play a game to test your ideas!
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Periodic Table of the Elements Essay

For Students 9th - 10th
This essay, written for Teachers' Domain, describes the foresight and pattern recognition that Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev used to develop the modern periodic table of elements.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Periodic Table of the Elements

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive periodic table developed for Teachers' Domain provides detailed information about the chemical properties of elements and illustrates the electron configurations that determine those characteristics.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Atoms and Elements

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces fifth graders to atoms and elements. Key concepts include atoms, parts of the atoms, elements, and the periodic table. Opportunities for student participation are included...
Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Atoms, Elements and Compounds

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on atoms and elements including what they are, the chemical symbols for elements, and the placement of elements on the periodic table. A link to a test is provided.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Building 3 D Models of Atoms

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars build atoms of elements 1-20. The entire set can be hung from the ceiling in order of the Periodic Table to be referred to throughout the Chemistry class/unit. This is helpful when teaching bonding and patterns of the...
Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements

For Students 9th - 10th
A fun way to learn about the periodic table! This interactive table allows students to investigate the basic information of an element as well as explore group and family characteristics.
PPT
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Atoms, Elements and the Periodic Table: The Atomic Model [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A slideshow looking at the contributions of scientists over time to our understanding of atomic theory. Looks at models of the atom developed by Democritus, John Dalton, J.J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr, and James Chadwick, as...
eBook
Chiral Publishing

Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: The Structure of the Elements [Audio Book]

For Students 9th - 10th
The structure of the atom is uncovered in this interactive tutorial. Discover the different particles of the atom and learn their charges and how they can affect the overall atom.
Article
NASA

Nasa: Atoms and Molecules in Motion, States of Matter [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Everythingin the universeis either matter or energy. All matter is made of combinations of about one hundred basic building blocks, the chemical elements on the periodic table. Going a step further and breaking these elements down to...
Interactive
PBS

Nova: Atom Builder

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out if you know enough about atoms to build them. The goal of the activity is to build an atom of a particular element by dragging the correct numbers of neutrons, protons and electrons into the atom.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Elements in the Universe

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners will use a graph of the relative abundance of elements in the Universe to determine relationships between size of the atoms and their abundance.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Heavy Elements Game

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars will play the "Heavy Element" game to learn about star cycle and the formation of heavy elements in the universe.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Atom in a Bag

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will use bags of beads with known quantities of electrons, neutrons and protons to identify the element that they represent.
eBook
Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Atoms and the Periodic Table

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, this site examines a list of related topics (in hyperlink format) on the atom and the Periodic Table of elements. Topics from light, particles, and waves to the Bohr model, quantum...
Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Matter: Atoms: Protons, Neutrons, Electrons

For Students 3rd - 7th
A video and a short quiz on the parts of an atom, the periodic table, and molecules.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Elements

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses elements and their different properties, the history of elements, and how atoms relate to elements.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Elements

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores elements and their different properties, the history of elements, and how atoms relate to elements.
Handout
Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: The Shell Model of the Atom

For Students 9th - 10th
Acting as a subtopic of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook's section on Atoms and the Periodic Table, this site discusses the properties of the atoms individually in relation to the main group elements of the Periodic Table.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Atoms

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Atoms and how they are related to elements, and the particles that make up atoms.

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