Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench Showcase: Quantum Mirage
An animation of a scanning tunneling microscope, STM, image of a quantum stadium corral made of iron atoms on a copper surace.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench Showcase: Quantum Corrals
An animation of a quantum corral made by iron atoms on a copper surface.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench Showcase:scanning Tunneling Microscopy
A learning module that investigates a powerful tool to observe and manipulate atoms called the scanning tunneling microscope.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Neon Diffusion in Nanotube
Observe the movement of neon atoms in a quadruple nanotube joint.
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, students use atom model cut-outs to model the reaction and see that all the atoms in the reactants show up in the products.
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Molecular Geometry
An advanced explanation of the valence shell electron pair repulsion (VSEPR) theory describes specific molecular models involving digonal, trigonal, tetrahedral, and octahedral coordination, as well as central atoms with five bonds....
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Molecule Shapes
Explore molecule shapes by building molecules in 3D. How does molecule shape change with different numbers of bonds and electron pairs? Find out by adding single, double or triple bonds and lone pairs to the central atom. Then, compare...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Atomic Theory: Dalton, Thomson and Rutherford
This tutorial will help students understand how Dalton, Thomson, and Rutherford contributed to the model of the atom.
PBS
Nova Online: The Diamond Deception
A good overview of diamonds. Gives information on structure, properties, and origin. Includes models that can be rotated and examined in 3D. Also has activity for building your own carbon atom.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Balancing Act
Students will use wooden atoms to model and balance a chemical reaction.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Nobel Prize in Physics 1922 Presentation Speech
This Nobel Foundation site provides the "Presentation Speech by Professor S.A. Arrhenius, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on December 10, 1922."
PBS
Pbs: People & Discoveries: Ernest Rutherford
A lovely biographical piece about Ernest Rutherford. A number of personal notes, along with extensive information about the physics work he did. Nice quote at the end.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Flex Book Textbooks: Chemistry Second Edition
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A complete, web-based, multi-media textbook covering a wide variety of Chemistry concepts.
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: It's Elemental Periodic Table of Elements
This page displays the Periodic Table of Elements and allows you to click each individual element for a page that displays in-depth information about that particular element. There are also links to many different games and learning...
Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Pendulum, Slider, and Spring
Observe the motion of this animated system to represent an analogy for molecular mechanics of atoms and molecules.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Collision Between Molecular Particles
View the interactions between an atom of xenon and a buckyball when they collide.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Aspartame Molecule: Peptides
[Free Registration/Login Required] Given prior knowledge of bonding and the molecular make up of aspartame, examine the model and determine which color represents which atom. Drag the labels at the bottom to the appropriate colored atom...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Where Does All the Energy in an Explosion Come From?
Students construct a model of chemical reactions involving energy and electrostatic interactions and compare reactions and changes in energy through the following activities. Activity 1 What energy changes occur during an explosion?...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: How Does an Object Become Charged?
This module develops atomic-level causal models to explain observations of electrostatic interactions via the following activities: Activity 1. What is the effect of changing the composition of an atom? Activity 2. How do objects become...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Quantum Atomic Structure
This multi-day lesson plan helps students to understand how the models of the atom have changed and how quantum mechanics affects the electrons as they orbit the nucleus.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Charles' Law and Ivory Soap
With this activity students will observe and record the properties of various types of bar soap. They will discover that due to the ingredients some soaps are denser than others, and ivory soap will actually float. Students will see a...
Other
Beautiful Chemistry: Beautiful Structures: Quasicrystals
An interactive display of quasicrystals allows students to study the inner components and molecular make-up of these structures. Since the discovery of quasicrystals, a lot of efforts have been put on finding the locations of atoms...
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: The Periodic Table
This lesson focuses on the periodic table and the configurations. In the modern periodic table, elements are in order of atomic number in periods and groups. Electronic configurations model how electrons are arranged in atoms. A link to...