Teaching Chemistry

Chemistry lab tips.

Mole Conversions

This "Socratic Seminar Teacher Observations (Summary)" is designed as a guide to enable a teacher to quickly document individual student performance on key parameters and summarize whole class performance. Five behavioral objectives are clearly stated. The guide also includes an area for debriefin...

Chemical reactions take place at the molecular level, when the atoms and molecules of the things you start with (reactants) turn into something new (products). All chemical reactions can be split generally into six different categories: ...

Illustration showing that almost all of the weight of an atom comes from the protons and neutrons.

I teach middle school science at the middle school that I attended. For many of you that would be a nightmare but I love it. Since I started my teaching career as an elementary school teacher, I love bulletin boards. My sixth graders are working on a physical science unit. I decided to have the students make Bohr Models out of cereal and paper plates. It was a quick, easy activity and they had so much fun. I had to take two shots of the bulletin board because one of my 8th graders photo…

Add some fun to your homeschool science curriculum with this free chemistry game! Click "Read More" to see the directions.

Atomic Structure & Periodic Table

It is never too early to start teaching STEM. Try these chemistry exploration ideas for third grade students.

Learn about atoms and isotopes with this free game for chemistry!

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VSEPR summary

A chemical equation is a written symbolic representation of a chemical reaction (The symbols are the elemental letter or letters representing that element). The reactant chemical(s) are given on the left-hand side and the product...