CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Structure of the Atom
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students learn about the important discoveries of subatomic particles, and how they led to our current understanding of the atom.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Nuclear Physics and Elementary Particles
This interactive unit will take students up close and personal with the nuclei of atoms as they discover some of their more intimate process. These will include radioactive decay, nuclear fission, and nuclear fusion.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactives: The Periodic Table
An interactive website where students learn about the basics of an atom, periodic tables organization, and the structure and properties of matter. Module includes an introduction and five lessons that are followed by a quiz and an...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements
A fun way to learn about the periodic table! This interactive table allows students to investigate the basic information of an element as well as explore group and family characteristics.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Mixtures and Solutions
This unit covers introductory concepts of mixtures and solutions. Students think about how mixtures and solutions, and atoms and molecules can influence new technologies developed by engineers. The first lesson explores the fundamentals...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Atomic Structure
Introduces learners to atomic models of the past and present, focusing on the orbital model and an explanation of its basis. Learners then have the opportunity to "make an atom" and contrast it with an ion, followed by an isotope. The...
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons
Investigate why a charged object is attracted or repelled by another charged object. Explore the concept that the attraction between positive protons and negative electrons holds an atom together.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: The Particle Adventure
Visit this site for an interactive tour of the atom and all aspects of particle physics. View the animations available with almost every description on this site. A great place for the fundamentals of particles and forces including a...
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1935 Presentation Speech
The Nobel Physics Chairman made this speech when presenting the Prize to Chadwick. It clearly explains the importance and depth of Chadwick's work. Site by Nobel e-Museum.
City University of New York
John Jay College of Criminal Justice: Atomic Structure
Resource shows the relationships bewteen terms such as atomic number, protons, and isotopes. Simple pictures of atoms help.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Tic Tac Toe Pick 3 in a Row Atomic Model Assignment
A choice menu assignment where students select between several extension activities that help understand the structure of the atom.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Drawing Atoms
This activity serves as an introduction to chemistry, and can be used to help students draw a two dimensional image of the atom.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Proton
Wikipedia offers information on the proton, a subatomic particle with a positive electric charge. Many hyperlinked terms.
Estrella Mountain Community College
Online Biology Book: Chemistry I: Atoms and Molecules
In this online biology textbook, learn about atoms and molecules as they relate to life. Find out about topics such as electrons and energy, chemical bonding, and chemical reactions.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Acids and Bases
In the chemical economy, acids actively give away their protons while bases actively collect them, but some more aggressively than others. George Zaidan and Charles Morton use the currency of subatomic particles to explain this unseen...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Materia
Explore the concept of matter in this Spanish-language encyclopedia entry. This site features the properties of matter, the Law of Conservation of Matter, and other important features of matter.
Other
University of Kansas: Quarked!: Baryon Blaster
Try to fill each SUV with the right kinds of quarks as it travels across the screen, in order to make different types of baryon particles. The game becomes more challenging as you progress through the levels.
Other
University of Kansas: Quarked!: Matter Mechanic
Build elements and molecules using neutrons, protons, and electrons. Choices include helium, carbon, oxygen, aluminum, water, and salt.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Subatomic Particles: Lesson 2
Describe the $ifference between the subatomic particles, including their masses, locations, and charges. This lesson is 2 of 7 in the series titled "Subatomic Particles."
Other
National Research Council: Elementary Particle Physics
The Committee on Elementary-Particle Physics, part of the U.S. National Research Council, presents this massive report on particle physics. It's a definitive document. Surprisingly readable, totally detailed. Start with the Table of...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemistry: Atomic Nucleus
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the modern concept of the atomic nucleus.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemistry: Mass Number
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Shows the calculation of mass number.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Build Some Helium: Atoms to Molecules
[Free Registration/Login Required] Build your own helium atom and make sure it has the correct number of protons, electrons, and neutrons on this site. Site also includes a small quiz on the topic.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Atomic Nucleus
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the nucleus of an atom and what holds it together.