Environmental Chemistry
Environmental chemistry.com: Periodic Table Selenium
Excellent resource for just about anything you could ever want to know about selenium.
Environmental Chemistry
Environmental chemistry.com: Periodic Table Silicon
Very thorough site with just about everything you could ever need to know about silicon.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Eat Iron?!!
To gain an understanding of mixtures and the concept of separation of mixtures, students use strong magnets to find the element of iron in iron-fortified breakfast cereal flakes. Through this activity, they see how the iron component of...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Polymers & Plastics: Classification & Models
Students will use their prior knowledge about changes of matter including physical and chemical changes to examine and categorize various types of plastics (polymers). They will identify how their chemical properties allow them to have...
Web Elements
Web Elements Periodic Table: Beryllium
A very thorough summary of physical and chemical properties about beryllium, along with electron configuration information and other relevant information.
Web Elements
Web Elements Periodic Table: Cadmium
This site provides information on the physical and chemical properties of Cadmium.
Chemicool
Chemicool: Cesium
Chemicool.com offers a very good summary of the key physical and chemical properties of cesium. Well organized.
Chemicool
Chemicool: Iodine
This site from Chemicool by David D. Hsu is a very nice set of data tables summarizing just about all the important physical and chemical properties of iodine. This is a great site to check out on the subject.
Chemicool
Chemicool: Krypton
This site from Chemicool and David D. Hsu is a very well organized summary of the physical and chemical properties of krypton. Detailed and thorough with great information on the subject.
Chemicool
Chemicool: Einsteinium
A collection of data tables summarizing the known physical and chemical properties of Einsteinium.
Chemicool
Chemicool: Neon
This site, which is provided for by Chemicool, gives a summary set of data tables on the physical and chemical properties of neon.
Chemicool
Chemicool: Osmium
This site, which is provided for by Chemicool, gives a set of data tables that cover a great many physical and chemical properties of osmium.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Titanium: The Element
Learn about the discovery of titanium, how it is produced, its physical and chemical properties, and what it is used for.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Melting Ice
Using temperature probes, students will monitor the temperature of melting ice cubes in different situations. This lab activity, allows students to view the procedure and answer questions online that can be saved and evaluated by the...
McREL International
Mc Rel: Glue Polymer (Whelmer #15 Learning Activity)
An easy to do activity that investigates the basic principles behind chemical bonding. The activity is written in lesson plan format that meets NSES standards.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Halogen Family
Read about the non-metallic elements in the halogen family, what their chemical and physical properties are, their uses, and some interesting facts about them.
Indiana University
Indiana University Bloomington: Reference Documents: Calcite [Pdf]
A fact card describing the characteristics of calcite and its presence in limestone, its chemical and physical properties, and the composition and structure of a calcite unit cell.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Ether
Encyclopedia description of this chemical compound group. Includes structure, chemical reactions, synthesis, physical properties, nomenclature, and much more.
Amethyst Galleries
Amethyst Galleries: Mineral Gallery: The Mineral Calcite
The world's most common mineral, Calcite, has many uses and varieties. This website lists the physical characteristics of Calcite and includes color images.
Other
Educational Innovations: Diaper Polymer Activities [Pdf]
What can you do with diaper polymer? Check out these six quick student experiments involving the chemical used in diapers.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Freezing Things: States of Matter
The class will go back over the Power Point presentation on chemical and physical properties. The teacher will then conduct numerous liquid nitrogen demos. This activity is used early in the Chemistry course. The students love it. This...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Density: Determined by Using Mass and Volume of a Substance
In this activity, learners investigate the history of density, its uses, and applications. Students will generate and calculate data applying it to a graph. They will be looking at the relationship between mass and volume.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Package Those Foods!
This activity provides students with the opportunity to create a food package for a specific food. The students have three components to focus on in the design of their food package. The package will have to keep the food clean, protect...
Other
Us Peroxide
US Peroxide is the leading supplier of hydrogen peroxide and peroxygen based technologies and services for environmental applications. Their site includes information about hydrogen peroxide such as common applications, physical and...