Chemistry specific online textbooks
W.W. Norton & Company. Chemistry The Science in context, 2nd edition Paid registration is required for the ebook however the quizzes, flashcard, animations & interactives are freely available.
Chemguide, Jim Clark This is very text orientated but is easy to follow with good explanations and simple images.
An introduction to Chemistry, Mark Bishop There are powerpoints, animations and tutorials all as a part of this e-book.
McGraw Hill Online Learning Center Another good online textbook with wonderful visuals showing microscopic images of particles in solution and quizzes that give immediate feedback.
Re:act Nuffield Advanced Chemistry contains text, audio, quizzes, suggestions for investigations and encourages students to submit questions for the authors to answer.
Pearson Prentice Hall Chemistry: The central science has multiple choice quizzes with instant feedback and good videos to accompany the text
Avogrado Chemistry Choose a chapter from the drop down menu and after reading the text students can try the interactive activities and quizzes which have instant feedback.
IB Chemistry interactive syllabus 2009 An excellent summary with useful images and animations on the usual Chemistry topics that are assessed for the International Baccalaureate as well as most other syllabus's.
To view molecules in 3D, Chime is what you'll want to use, download Chime for free from here http://www.umass.edu/microbio/chime/getchime.htm Chime will show up in a browser, usually Internet Explorer for all .pdb files (protein database)
3D Virtual Chemistry library set up by Imperial College, London, UK contains 150 molecules relevant to most curriculums.
Get students to make up molecules using Chemsketch, then convert them to a .pdb file to view in 3D, download Chemsketch for free from here http://www.acdlabs.com/resources/freeware/chemsketch/ It is pretty straightforward to use, if needed there is a user guide here http://bbruner.org/obc/chemsket.htm
Students can design their own molecule and upload it to Hull University website
For something quick and easy that required no additional programs use this....molecule 3d.
Finally, from a Chemistry point of view, it's also useful to download the RSC Chemistry font here, once downloaded move the folder to Start -- Control Panel -- Font
Chemistry plus Biology and Physics textbooks
Vision Learning An excellent site that relates science to real life and contains many interesting anecdotes, interactive activities and glossaries that are available in both English and Spanish
Physics
Fear of Physics, there is a good range of videos, text and help for students who need some help with their physics
PhET simulations, go there...use these activities, they are superb!
PhysicsLAB from Mainland school, Florida has excellent, easy to understand text with clear diagrams and some animations
Physics for you, endless creative and original resources from Professor Messer to accompany the very popular quality textbook of the same name.
Science online textbooks
Skool, UK Choose either Key Stage 3 or 4 from the top of the webpage. Key Stage 3 (11 - 13 years of age) or Key Stage 4 (14 - 16 years of age) contains excellent tutorials followed by end of topic quizzes.
BBC Bitesize Revision quick tutorials, excellent images, animations and audio which can be followed by a test which gives instant feedback.
Active Science there are some good resources here to download and some good interactive games.
Teachers domain, as recommended on one of my previous blogs. There are just superb videos, animations, worksheet, additional teacher information here, register as a user (for free) and download resources that are relevant to your curriculum, tell your colleagues in other subjects about it too.
School Science this one is a bit of a resource bank, it'll take you some time to work through it, once again, sift through what is useful for your students
Woodlands Junior School, Kent Well done to Mandy Barrow who has put together a range of interesting revision activities in an engaging and easy to use manner for 11 - 14 year olds
PBS Teachers Science concepts are linked to everyday experiences via the usual multimedia, spend some time here and pick and choose what interests you.
Scholarnet, Online Learning Paid registration is required however there are some free demo versions available with online text and animations to reinforce understanding
This is just the tip of the iceberg, I have many url's on specific topics to recommend which I'll post up to my Delicious account when I have a minute or 20.
The beauty of the internet is that it is a library at our fingertips, you surf the net to get information about something which leads you to ask yourself more questions so you continue surfing to find out about a (usually) related topic and so it...it's a vicious cycle....a spider web....domino effect which is very addictive....
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