eBook
Chiral Publishing

Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Process of Chemical Reactions [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Factors Influencing Rates of Chemical Reactions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lab investigates the factors that influence rates of reactions. Learners will develop a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, collect data, then draw a conclusion based on the data.
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Chemical Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How to Speed Up Chemical Reactions (And Get a Date)

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Rates of Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this module, students will practice expressing the rates of chemical reactions, and they will also describe the collision theory as it relates to chemical reactions.
Lesson Plan
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Lesson Plans: Temperature and Rate of Chemical Reaction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students experiment to see if the temperature of two clear colorless solutions affects how fast they react.
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Can You Change the Rate of a Chemical Reaction?

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Chemical Reactions and Stoichiometry

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Controlling Chemical Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on comparing the reaction rate of chemical reactions with different surface areas.
Interactive
Concord Consortium

The Molecular Workbench Database: Chemical Reactions and Stoichiometry

For Students 9th - 10th
This simulation helps students investigate the basics of chemical equations. Students will review stoichiometry and what effects their reaction rates.
Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Reversible Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch a reaction proceed over time. How does total energy affect a reaction rate? This model represents an analogy of chemical reactions.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Chemical Reaction Rate

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of chemical reaction rate and factors that influence it.
Activity
Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College: Chem Lab: Chemical Kinetics 1

For Students 9th - 10th
In this experiment, you will determine the rate law and confirm the mechanism of the reaction between cyclohexanone and iodine. Requires Java and QuickTime plug-ins to access some features.
Lesson Plan
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Lesson Plans: A Catalyst and the Rate of Reaction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students observe and investigate how a catalyst increases the rate of a chemical reaction while not becoming part of the products of the reaction.
Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Reactions & Rates

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore what makes a reaction happen by colliding atoms and molecules. Design experiments with different reactions, concentrations, and temperatures. When are reactions reversible? What affects the rate of a reaction?
eBook
Crescent Public Schools

The Internet Science Room: Chemical Reaction Rates

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial provides an explanation of reaction rates in chemical reactions with examples and sample problems.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Chemical Reactions: Factors Which Influence Rate of Reaction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students investigate and discover how surface area, concentration, and temperature affect the rate of a chemical reaction. This lab is designed for students to practice good experimental tests of hypotheses, synthesize...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Keep It Bottled Up: Linear Rates of Pressure Increase

For Teachers 9th - 10th
When two or more chemicals react, other substances such as gases may be produced. The rate at which the reaction takes place can be affected by a number of different factors including temperature. In this activity, you will see how...
Graphic
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Temperature and Rate of a Chemical Reaction

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch molecules collide with enough energy that bonds break and form new bonds in a chemical reaction.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Rates of Change

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is part 4 of a 4 part series to include the nature of chemical reactions, reaction types, and balancing chemical equations.
Activity
Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College: Chem Lab: Chemical Kinetics 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab further analyzes the results of the experiments carried out in Chemical Kinetics 1. In addition, you will carry out experiments to determine the temperature dependence of the reaction rate constant. Requires Java plug-in.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Rate Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students use a rate law to describe the concentration dependence of a reaction rate, and then determine the rate law for a reaction by analysis of experimental data....
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Chemical Reaction Rate in Ultraviolet Beads

For Students 9th - 10th
In this science fair project, experiment with the role temperature plays in the rate at which UV beads lose their color. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and introduction,...
Handout
Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Reactions

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site provides a detailed overview of chemical reactions. Content explores what a reaction is, as well as different types of reactions, reaction rates, how to measure compounds to create a reaction, and "stuff" you can add to a...