Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Chemical Reactions
This web-based activity gives students an opportunity to write chemical reactions, balance chemical equations, and explain what is happening during a given chemical reaction. Also addressed is the effects of concentration and temperature...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Chemical Reactions
This site provides an overview of the role of energy in chemical reactions.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Chemical Reactions and Stoichiometry
In this activity, students explore reactions in which chemical bonds are formed and broken. Students experiment with changing the temperature and the concentration of the atoms in order to see how these affect reaction rates. They also...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Activation Energy Kickstarting Chemical Reactions
Chemical reactions are constantly happening in your body - even at this very moment. But what catalyzes these important reactions? Vance Kite explains how enzymes assist the process, while providing a light-hearted way to remember how...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How to Speed Up Chemical Reactions (And Get a Date)
This video explores by analogy what factors speed up reaction rates in chemical reactions. [4:56] Includes a brief quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Biology: Chemistry of Life: Chemical Reactions
An article discussing how chemical reactions make and break bonds between atoms.
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: 7.1 Chemical Reactions & Matter Transformations
This Chemical Reactions & Matter Transformationsun unit has students investigating where the students investigate the chemical reactions of a bath bomb.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Can You Change the Rate of a Chemical Reaction?
The ingredients in Alka-Seltzer tablets undergo a chemical reaction that produces carbon dioxide gas as soon as the tablets hit water. Do you think you can cause the tablets to produce gas faster by breaking them into smaller pieces...
Open Ed
Open Ed Sci: 7.2 Chemical Reactions & Energy
In this 21-day unit, students are introduced to the anchoring phenomenon-a flameless heater in a Meal, Ready-to-Eat (MRE) that provides hot food to people by just adding water. They complete investigations to collect evidence to support...
Chiral Publishing
Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Process of Chemical Reactions [Pdf]
This chemistry chapter covers everything about chemical reactions. Read about the collision theory, rates of chemical reactions, reversible reactions, and chemical equilibrium. Many pictures and graphs will help to explain the concepts.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Lesson Plans: What Is a Chemical Reaction?
After observing a demonstration of a chemical reaction between a burning candle and the oxygen in the air, learners use atom model cut-outs to model the reaction and see that all the atoms in the reactants show up in the products.
Chiral Publishing
Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Process of Chemical Reactions: Power Point [Pdf]
A great overview of the chemical reactions chapter from "An Introduction to Chemistry". This presentation, available in .pdf format, highlights the main ideas from the detailed corresponding chapter on chemical reactions. Use as part of...
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Energy Changes in Chemical Reactions
Learners will conduct two chemical reactions: endothermic and exothermic. They will see an animation that shows that it takes energy to break bonds and that energy is released when new bonds are formed, and use that animation to explain...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Chemical Reactions and Equations
With this experiment, students will identify evidence of chemical reactions and demonstrate how chemical equations are used to describe them.
Concord Consortium
The Molecular Workbench Database: Chemical Reactions
Observe that chemical reactions follow the pathway the uses the least amount of energy in this simulation.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Triggers a Chemical Reaction
Understand chemical reactions by learning about enthalpy and entropy.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Chemical Reaction Overview
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Provides an introduction to chemical reactions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Chemical Reaction Overview
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains chemical property and chemical reaction.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemistry: Recognizing Chemical Reactions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A tutorial full of explanations, videos, and review questions that covers chemical reaction and indicators of a chemical reaction.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Recognizing Chemical Reactions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Signs that a chemical reaction has occurred.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Chemical Reactions: Lesson 4
This lesson will present a basic understanding of the periodic chart of elements and how to predict chemical reactions based on given information. It is 4 of 9 in the series titled "Chemical Reactions."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Chemical Reactions: Summary
This lesson summarizes how chemical reactions occur, and that not all reactions go to completion. [1:41]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Chemical Reaction Types: Summary
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing the basic types of chemical reactions straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own learning experiences as you take part in this interactive lesson...
Concord Consortium
The Molecular Workbench Database: Chemical Reactions and Stoichiometry
This simulation helps students investigate the basics of chemical equations. Students will review stoichiometry and what effects their reaction rates.