Links

Chemistry Links

• Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for Chemistry grade 10-11: this document describes the topics to be covered in Chemistry 1 courses (all levels) in Massachusetts. Topics in boldface are mandatory and are fair game for the MCAS chemistry test.
• Relevant (High School) Chemistry Resources on the Web
• WebElements periodic table & element data
• The Pictorial Periodic Table, from Phoenix College
• ChemFinder, a site where you can look up information about chemical compounds.
• The Sheffield Chemdex, an index of Chemistry web sites.
• Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
• UNC-Chapel Hill Chemistry Fundamentals Program
• General Chemistry, by Ralph Petrucci, William Harwood & Geoffrey Herring. (This is set of web pages that accompany the chemistry book of the same title, published by Prentice-Hall, Inc.)
• Table of Isotopes
• The Orbitron: a gallery of atomic orbitals and molecular orbitals

Combustion and Other Exothermic Reactions

• A Gummi bear being rapidly oxidized by molten potassium chlorate
• Brainiac: Alkali Metals: a video supposedly of lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, and cesium each reacting with water. As it turns out, the rubidium and cesium reactions were faked, but it's an amusing video nevertheless.

ChemEd 2011

Materials from the workshop Converting Existing "Cookbook" Laboratory Experiments to Inquiry Format:

• PowerPoint slides
• Cookbook Lab procedures
• Feedback/Survey

Humor

• A flash animation of Tom Lehrer's song, The Elements. (The music is "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General", from The Pirates of Penzance, by Sir W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan).
• Humor: Experiment I, or "Introduction to Acid/Base Titration"
• Lab Report Quotes: actual quotes from formal lab reports by some of Mr. Bigler's students.

Other Science-Related

• Free Online Graph Paper (customize & print as PDF files)
• A View from the Back of the Envelope (a site about approximations)
• Student's t-Test tutorial & calculator
• Chi Square tutorial and calculator

Misc. Useful

• How to be a Genius (a Sept. 2006 article in NewScientist)
• NWS Weather Forecast for Salem
• SmarTraveler: Boston
• Mr. Bigler's Test-Taking Advice