Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Chemistry: Kinetics and Equilibrium
Through informational text, interactive practice problems, virtual simulations, and video clips, students learn about reaction rates and equilibrium.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Big Pieces or Small Pieces: Which React Faster?
Use an Alka-Seltzer to find out how size of a particle affects the speed of a chemical reaction. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and introduction, followed by a section on...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Reaction Mechanisms
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students describe how the elementary steps of a chemical reaction combine to produce the overall reaction mechanism, and identify intermediates and catalysts when...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Chemical Reactions and Stoichiometry
In this activity, students explore reactions in which chemical bonds are formed and broken. Students experiment with changing the temperature and the concentration of the atoms in order to see how these affect reaction rates. They also...
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Reaction Rates
This Chem4Kids.com site explores the rate of reactions. Content focuses on forces that change the speed of reactions, and measuring rates.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Rate Laws
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students use a rate law to describe the concentration dependence of a reaction rate, and then determine the rate law for a reaction by analysis of experimental data....
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Rates of Reactions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this module, students will practice expressing the rates of chemical reactions, and they will also describe the collision theory as it relates to chemical reactions.
Davidson College
Davidson College: Chemical Kinetics: Integrated Rate Laws
Explains the integrated rate laws for zero-, first-, and second-order reactions. Students then try a virtual stopped-flow experiment to find the rate law and the rate constant for a chemical reaction. Requires Java.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Factors Affecting Reaction Rates
Students will investigate variables that have an effect on the rate of a reaction while designing part of the experiment themselves.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Chemical Reaction Rate in Ultraviolet Beads
In this science fair project, experiment with the role temperature plays in the rate at which UV beads lose their color. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and introduction,...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Chemical Reactions: Factors Which Influence Rate of Reaction
In this activity, students investigate and discover how surface area, concentration, and temperature affect the rate of a chemical reaction. This lab is designed for students to practice good experimental tests of hypotheses, synthesize...
Crescent Public Schools
The Internet Science Room: Chemical Reaction Rates
This tutorial provides an explanation of reaction rates in chemical reactions with examples and sample problems.
State University of New York
State University of New York: Determining the Rate Equation: Graphical Method
In this learning module, students will learning how to determine a rate equation by utilizing the graphical method.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Temperature and Rate of a Chemical Reaction
Watch molecules collide with enough energy that bonds break and form new bonds in a chemical reaction.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Reversible Reactions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Reversible and irreversible reactions and equilibrium.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Acids and Bases in Biology
[Free Registration/Login Required] Interactive shows a graph illustrating the effect of pH on pepsin's reaction rate.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Chemical Reaction Rate
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of chemical reaction rate and factors that influence it.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Reaction & Rate Simulation
Students will learn what causes reactions and what affects the rates of reaction through data collected by conducting several simulated experiments.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Factors Affecting Reaction Rate
This lesson will describe the factors affecting reaction rate, including temperature, stirring (agitation), surface area (particle size), concentration.
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Reactions
This site provides a detailed overview of chemical reactions. Content explores what a reaction is, as well as different types of reactions, reaction rates, how to measure compounds to create a reaction, and "stuff" you can add to a...
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Controlling Chemical Reactions
This lesson focuses on comparing the reaction rate of chemical reactions with different surface areas.
Frostburg State University
General Chemistry Online: Reaction Rates
Find answers to questions often asked about reaction rates. Recognize rate laws and the relationship between temperature and reaction rates.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Reaction Rates Flipped (Day 1)
Eighth graders will briefly review key information about reaction rates before designing their own experiments to complete a chemical reaction within a student specified amount of time.
Stanford University
Stanford University: Bubbling Tablets
Students learn how material properties change as the size of the material decreases to the nanoscale. This experiment investigates the effects of surface area on reaction rates.