TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Activation Energy Kickstarting Chemical Reactions
Chemical reactions are constantly happening in your body - even at this very moment. But what catalyzes these important reactions? Vance Kite explains how enzymes assist the process, while providing a light-hearted way to remember how...
University of Arizona
The Biology Project: Energy, Enzymes, and Catalysis Problem Set
How well do you know the relationship between enzymes and activation energy? This resource provides you with short quizzes and tutorials to provide feedback for those topics you don't understand.
Macmillan Education
W.h. Freeman Publishing: Allosteric Regulation of Enzyme
Reactions in cells must be regulated and one way to do this is using allosteric molecules. These regulators can activate enzymes or inhibit them. This tutorial explains exactly how allosteric regulation works using words, narration, and...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Svante Arrhenius
Svante Arrhenius was born in Vik, Sweden, and became the first native of that country to win the Nobel Prize. The award for chemistry was bestowed to him in honor of his theory of electrolytic dissociation. Arrhenius also developed the...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Enzyme Function
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This activity describes how enzymes speed up biochemical reactions and their importance to living organisms.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Chemistry: Kinetics and Equilibrium
Through interactive activities in a module format, students learn about kinetics, collision theory, reaction rates, and rate laws. They will calculate rate laws from experimental data, concentration and time, and half-life of a reaction....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Energy and Enzymes: Activation Energy
An information page about activation energy. Learn about activation energy, transition states, and reaction rates.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Enzymes and the Active Site
An article reviewing over enzymes and active sites.
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Catalysts & Inhibitors
This site explores what catalysts and inhibitors are, as well as what they do. Additional content includes a focus on Lisa Meitner and her contribution radiochemistry.
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.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How to Speed Up Chemical Reactions (And Get a Date)
This video explores by analogy what factors speed up reaction rates in chemical reactions. [4:56] Includes a brief quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Hydrogen Oxygen Rockets
Students investigate how to build and launch a simple rocket that uses hydrogen and oxygen gases that will be mixed to propel the rocket. Students learn the principles of combustion reactions, kinetics, stoichiometry of reactions,...
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.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Energy Changes in Chemical Reactions
Use these demostration video clips to help understand the energy changes in some chemical reactions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Energy and Biochemical Reactions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers the role of energy in chemical reactions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Enzyme Function
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how enzymes speed up biochemical reactions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Activation Energy
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of activation energy and why all chemical reactions require it.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Chemical Reactions: Summary
This lesson summarizes how chemical reactions occur, and that not all reactions go to completion. [1:41]
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Biology: Chemical Reactions: Self Check Quiz
A quick, five question review over various concepts of chemical reactions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemical Reactions and Energy
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students learn about the role of activation energy in a chemical reaction, and the difference between endothermic and exothermic reactions.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activation Energy
Learn about activation energy, transition state, and reaction rate.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Activation Energy
This site from the Wikipedia encyclopedia contains a qualitative explanation of activation energy, explaining what it is and why it is necessary. Links are also provided throughout the article for additional information.
Other
On Line Study Guide/reaction Rates and Equilbrium
Here's a full and understandable discussion of Reaction Rates and Equilibrium.