Chemistry
Ideas and inspiration for your chemistry classroom.
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Chemistry Elements Fun Facts and Free Poster
Students get to the core of chemistry and learn how the periodic table is essential to understanding how elements behave.
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4 Proven Methods to Rejoin Thermometer Fluids
Fluid separation is the leading cause of precision thermometer failure and inaccurate readings. Use these methods to recover your lab instruments.
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The Magic of Crystals: The wonderful world of crystal formation
Science teachers: Bring your middle-school and high-school students into the wonderful world of crystal formation with this short video and crystal growing kit from Ward’s Science.
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Fun Science Activities to Celebrate the New Year
Colorful, exciting science activities to help students ring in the new year with a smile.
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A battery of hands-on science fun with this free Orange Clock activity
Give students a boost from using fruit to demonstrate how batteries convert stored chemical energy into electrical energy.
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Demonstrate oxidation states of manganese with this colorful free activity download
Introduce students to this consequential transition element with our colorful lab activity that demonstrates the various oxidation states of manganese.
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Explore the building blocks of everything, with the periodic table, plus a free student handout from McGraw Hill’s AccessScience
This free resource helps students learn how the elements make up everything on the earth, in the solar system, and in the universe.
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15 hands-on chemistry activities to do at home or school – with FREE downloads
Check out 15 of our most popular chemistry activity downloads in one convenient place. Covers classroom or distance-learning lessons.
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It's easy to gauge science fun with this free Under Pressure activity
This activity helps students investigate Boyle's law and the behavior of colloid particles when exposed to pressure changes.
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Cross-link science and fun with this free Joke Juice activity
A quick and easy activity illustrating the effect of cross-linking on a polymer
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Delayed reactions in action with this free iodine clock activity
A quick and easy activity illustrating the effect of concentration, temperature, and a catalyst on the rate of reaction.
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Chill out in the lab with this free endothermic freezer flask activity
A hands-on way to help the students in your class investigate endothermic reactions.
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Soak up this free disappearing water activity
Use this free activity to whet your students’ appetite for exploring superabsorbent, hydrophilic polymers and their real-world applications.
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Foiled again: Science of keeping Thanksgiving leftovers safe
A timely discussion about handling Thanksgiving leftovers to expand students' understanding of food-science topics.
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Eureka! A free density column activity
Students discover the basics about the relative densities of solid objects and the intriguing ways “density matters” in real-world applications.
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Heat up your chemistry class with this free exothermic crystallization activity
A hands-on way to help the students in your class investigate exothermic crystallization and supersaturated solutions.
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Halloween fun with chemical reactions: Jack-o-lantern tube of toothpaste demo
Beware! This demonstration is dramatic (and we know students love drama!). Here’s a spooky Halloween demonstration to teach on exothermic processes, catalysis, and more.
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Red, white and boom! How fireworks work.
The budding pyrotechnic engineers in your science class will be excited to learn how chemistry is behind the beautiful colors and thunderous sounds of fireworks.
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Crush it in your chemistry class with this free crushing can activity
A hands-on way to help the students in your class investigate how gases behave when exposed to temperature, pressure, and volume changes.
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How science helps Santa go down the chimney…and 4 more easy holiday science activities to break up students’ breaks
Use this super-easy activity list to help students discover that physics, chemistry, and other STEM topics don’t take a break from the world around them, even during the holidays.
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