eSchool Today
E School Today: Elements, Compounds, Substances and Mixtures
Learn about the classification of matter based on whether the chemical composition is pure or a mixture. Understand the definitions of elements, compounds, substances, and mixtures, and what the differences are between them. Five types...
Chiral Publishing
Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Types of Compounds
Discover different types of compounds such as binary covalent, binary ionic, binary acids, and oxyacids. Explore links that give information about writing names and formulas for different compounds.
Royal Society of Chemistry
Royal Society of Chemistry: Gridlocks: Level 1
A collection of grid puzzles that cover topics in basic chemistry, including acids, salts, alkalis, chemistry lab equipment, the periodic table, states of matter, and more. These are excellent for topic review and reinforcement. The...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Inorganic Compounds
Learn here about inorganic compounds, substances that do not contain both carbon and hydrogen, and how they are essential to human functioning.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Organic Compounds Essential to Human Functioning
Learn here about organic compounds, groups of carbon atoms covalently bonded to hydrogen, usually oxygen, and often other elements as well, and how they are essential to human functioning.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Organic or Inorganic?
Take a look around your world as you discover what items are made up of organic and inorganic materials. Take this tutorial and quiz to see how much you know.
Frostburg State University
General Chemistry Online: Molecules and Compounds
A complete lesson on compounds, from introductory material in the beginning to a practice exam at the end. This lesson covers bonding, ionic compounds, molecular compounds, naming compounds, structural formulas, polyatomic ions, and much...
Chiral Publishing
Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Molecular Compounds: Audio Book
Learn all about molecular structures in this easy-to-understand, audio book. See how valence electrons determine how atoms bond together, and look at the bonding inside some of the most common molecules around you.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Making Bath Salts for Mother's Day, a Primary Chemistry Lesson
What do you know about salt? For this chemistry lesson, students will learn different things about salt: the chemical name, it's periodic table number, it's shape under the microscope, how it dissolves in water, and how to make a mixture...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Using Properties to Identify Ionic and Molecular Compounds
A guided inquiry in which students test different physical properties, such as melting point or conductivity, to help them determine whether the compounds are ionic or molecular.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Biology: Atoms, Elements, and Compounds: Self Check Quiz
Try these five multiple-choice questions that help students review atoms, elements, and compounds. Each question has a hint and a self-checking feature.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Compounds and Elements: Lesson 2
This lesson will present a basic overview of elements and how they interact in chemical reactions and compound formations. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Compounds and Elements."
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemistry: Law of Multiple Proportions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains the law of multiple proportions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Chemistry of Compounds
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores chemical compounds and how elements form different compounds.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix Series: Percent Composition
[Free Registration/Login Required] Manipulate graph data to see a representation of the percent composition of different compounds. Then answer a challenge question about the activity.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Compounds
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores compounds and their properties, the elements that form them, and their structure.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Compounds
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Investigates compounds and their properties, the elements that form them, and their structure.
Other
Brinkster: All About Ionic Compounds
This site describes the various properties of ionic compounds, how they are named, and an easy method for naming them.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Compounds and Elements: Lesson 4
This lesson will present a basic overview of elements and how they interact in chemical reactions and compound formations. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Compounds and Elements."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Compounds and Elements: Lesson 1
This lesson will present a basic overview of elements and how they interact in chemical reactions and compound formations. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Compounds and Elements."
Chem Tutor
Chem Tutor: Chemistry: Compounds
This lesson focuses on chemical compounds including Ionic and Covalent Bonds, Valences, Lewis Structures, Binary Covalent Compounds, Radicals or Polyatomic Ions, and much more. It also includes a compound worksheet in which the students...
Frostburg State University
Frostburg State Chemistry Online: Classifying Compounds Quiz
A short 6-question online quiz to test your knowledge of compounds. Explains the correct answers after the students answers have been submitted.
Purdue University
Purdue University: Elements, Compounds & Mixtures
Provides definitions and characteristics of elements, compounds, and mixtures, and gives an animated image of each.