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Ducksters

Ducksters: Chemistry for Kids: Elements: Halogens

For Students 1st - 9th
Explore the halogens of the periodic table. Learn about which elements are in this group and the properties, similarities, and other facts.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Chemistry for Kids: Elements Transition Metals

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the transition metals of the periodic table. Which elements are in this group. Properties, similarities, and other facts.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Chemistry for Kids: Organic Chemistry

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about organic chemistry including the importance of carbon, organic molecules, compounds, hydrocarbons, synthesis, and functional groups.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Chemistry for Kids: Soaps and Salts

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about soaps and salts in chemistry including interesting facts, how soap is made, how soap works, and what are salts in this site.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Chemistry for Kids: Solutions and Dissolving

For Students 1st - 9th
On this site, students learn about solutions and dissolving in chemistry including interesting facts, examples, solubility, saturation, concentration, and what is a solution?
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Chemistry for Kids: Separating Mixtures

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about separating mixtures in chemistry including separation processes such as filtration, distillation, and the centrifuge.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Chemistry for Kids: Radioactivity and Radiation

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the science of radioactivity and radiation in chemistry including radioactive decay, types, measurements, half-life, and the dangers.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Chemistry for Kids: Isotopes

For Students 1st - 9th
Study the science of isotopes in chemistry including naming isotopes, hydrogen, examples, fun facts, unstable, and stable on this site.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Chemistry for Kids: Chemical Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
A site discussing chemical reactions in chemistry including reaction rate, types of reactions, reagents, reactants, catalysts, and inhibitors.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Biology: Atoms, Elements, and Compounds: Self Check Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Try these five multiple-choice questions that help students review atoms, elements, and compounds. Each question has a hint and a self-checking feature.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: The Mole in Chemistry: Determining the Number of Atoms in Everyday Items

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the concept of the mole as a measure of quantity. They build spreadsheets that allow them to convert between moles, grams, and atomic mass units for given quantities of everyday items, elements, and simple chemical...
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Environmental Chemistry

Periodic Table of Elements: Gallium

For Students 9th - 10th
A very detailed look at the element Gallium, a member of the Boron Group.
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University of Oxford (UK)

University of Oxford: Solid State Chemistry: Doping of Semiconductors

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover how the doping of semiconductors is achieved by introducing atoms with more or fewer electrons than the parent element.
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Web Elements

Web Elements Periodic Table: Atomic Radius

For Students 9th - 10th
This Webelements website provides a short but detailed definition of atomic radius. Includes links to other chemistry sites.
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American Chemical Society

American Chemical Society: Hompage

For Students 9th - 10th
ChemCenter, available from the American Chemical Society, provides chemistry news, reference sources and other public services.
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Molecules

For Students 2nd - 7th
When two or more atoms combine they give rise to a molecule. A molecule can be made up of many atoms of the same element. There are 112 elements known to man, so can you imagine the different permutations and combinations of molecules...
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Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: The Aufbau Rules

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 atomic electron configurations. Specifically, the Aufbau rules are discussed with information on energies of...
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Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: The Limits of Classical Physics

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 limits associated with classical physics. Topics covered include light and heat with additional information...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Chemistry for Kids: Elements: Mercury

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the element mercury and its chemistry including atomic weight, atom, uses, sources, name, and discovery. Plus properties and characteristics of mercury.
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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Finding Volume: Water Displacement Method

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use the water-displacement method to find the volume of different rods that all have the same mass.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Chemistry for Kids: Elements: Neon

For Students 1st - 9th
Discover the properties and characteristics of neon on this site.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Chemistry for Kids: Chemical Mixtures

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore all about chemical mixtures on this site including solutions, alloys, suspensions, colloids, dissolving, examples, and facts.
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Other

Chemistry 101 Notes: Isotopes and Atomic Symbols

For Students 9th - 10th
These notes from a Chemistry 101 class at Indiana University Northwest provide a simple description of atomic symbols and two examples of how to use those symbols in isotope notation.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Periodic Table

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive periodic table of elements allows students to click on each element, and read essential information about that element. Chemical elements are also listed alphabetically for quick reference.