American Chemical Society
American Chemical Society: Hompage
ChemCenter, available from the American Chemical Society, provides chemistry news, reference sources and other public services.
National Institutes of Health
Niehs: Kids' Pages: What's Wrong Whiskers?
Online children's story that teaches about the health effects of exposure to environmental hazards such as chemicals. Click on "next" at the bottom of the story to see why Whiskers, the family cat, becomes ill from all the chemicals used...
National Institutes of Health
Niehs: Kids Pages: Crabby Kathy
Online children's story that teaches about the health effects of exposure to environmental hazards. Click on "next" at the bottom of the story to see why Kathy becomes "crabby" from all the chemicals and contaminants in her room.
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: More About Equilibrium
Equilibrium in chemistry is two reactants combining together and then coming apart to their two parts. Review this resource featuring a way to approach chemical equilibrium.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids Science: Elements
Kid's learn about the science of chemical elements. Basic forms of matter made from a single type of atom.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Physics for Kids: Energy
Kids learn about the science behind Energy including its different forms such as chemical, electrical, heat, and gravitational. When is energy considered renewable or nonrenewable?
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Mediterranean Sea: What Are Reversible and Irreversible Changes?
Students will learn about reversible and irreversible changes in materials in this lesson.
American Chemical Society
American Chemical Society: Science for Kids: Solids, Liquids and Gases
Engaging hands on science lessons for grades 2-6 on the three states of matter.
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Metals in the Periodic Table
This site provides a general overview of the metals in the periodic table. Content explores the different types of metals, and how you can identify a metal.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Chemistry for Kids: Chemistry Lab Equipment
Kids learn about the lab equipment used for chemistry experiments such as beakers, flasks, test tubes, stirring rods, pipettes, bunsen burners, gloves, goggles, and more.
Physics4kids
Physics4 Kids: Thermodynamics and Heat: Heat
Explains how heat is created from a chemical reaction, from friction, or from energy inefficiency, as well as the meaning of specific heat capacity.
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Stoichiometry
This site provides a great overview of stoichiometry, the part of chemistry that studies amounts of substances that are involved in reactions. Content focuses on what you measure, and includes two examples.
National Institutes of Health
Niehs: Kids' Pages: You and Your Genes
Online children's story that teaches about genes and how they direct how you react to things in your environment. Click on "next" at the bottom of the story to see how different people respond differently to harmful substances.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Netherlands: What Are Permanent and Temporary Changes?
In this lesson, students match a substance with its state of matter, identify what state something is, and learn about temporary and permanent changes in matter.
Biology 4 kids
Biology4 Kids: Quiz: Mitochondria
Take this ten-question review quiz over the cell organelle, mitochondria. Read more about each question after an incorrect answer is given.
NOAA
Noaa: Office of Response and Restoration
Here are tools and information for emergency responders and planners, and others working to understand,.the effects of oil and hazardous materials in our waters and along our coasts. Links to oil/chemical spill information and photos....
Other
University of Nebraska at Omaha: Brains Rule! Games: Ecstasy Invaders
Go on a mission inside a nerve cell to find out about how neurons produce and release neurotransmitters to communicate with other neurons. Learn what happens to these brain chemicals when the drug ecstasy interrupts the process.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Periodic Table of Chemical Elements
This is a picture of the periodic table of chemical elements, an important set of information for anyone learning about chemistry. Elements such as hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, sodium, iron and gold are listed using their chemical symbols...
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Chemical Structure of Methane
This diagram shows the chemical structure of methane. A methane molecule contains one carbon atom and four hydrogen atoms.
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Acids in Proteins
The first thing you might be asking is, "What is an amino acid?" There are more than fifty, and each one of them is a little different. Amino acids are used in every cell of your body to build the proteins you need to survive. All...
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Physical Chemistry Basics
Discover what physical chemistry is all about in this brief overview.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Soda Bottle Boat Experiment
Use the chemical reaction that occurs when mixing a base (baking soda) with an acid (vinegar) to turn a plastic soda bottle into a jet boat.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Gold Nugget
This photo shows an enormous gold nugget. Known as the Mojave Nugget, it weighs 156 ounces and is the largest gold nugget found in California. Gold is a precious metal with the chemical symbol Au. For more information on gold, check out...
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Zinc
This photo shows a close up view of zinc, a metallic chemical element with the symbol Zn.