Curated OER
Planet Structure & Interior
Students compare Jupiter and Earth. In this Earth and space studies activity, students compare the composition of Earth and Jupiter and analyze how the composition affects the rate at which the planets spin.
Curated OER
Dissolved Oxygen Lesson
Students investigate what dissolved oxygen is and why it is important to aquatic life and what factors influence levels of dissolved oxygen in a lake. They study how to use MS Excel to make charts to show trends and correlations.
Curated OER
Jupiter's "Monstrous" Magnetosphere
Students explore Jupiter's magnetosphere. In this Jupiter instructional activity, students examine a diagram of the magnetic field that surrounds Jupiter.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Carbohydrates: A Glucose Molecule
[Free Registration/Login Required] Drag the groups of hydroxy and hydrogen atoms to their proper locations to make a complete glucose molecule.
Libre Text
Libre Texts: Chemistry: Structure of Organic Molecules
Here you will learn how to understand, write, draw, and talk-the-talk of organic molecules. Why were different drawing techniques developed? Organic molecules can get complicated and large. It is a tedious to have to constantly draw out...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Nonbonding
Bring two molecules together and observe potential energy changes.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1934
At this website from The Nobel e-Museum, read about Harold Clayton Urey (1893-1981 CE), the chemist awarded with a Nobel Prize "for his discovery of heavy hydrogen." Download Urey's Nobel Lecture, "Some thermodynamic properties of...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Biology: Chemistry of Life
Through informational text, interactive activities, animations, and video clips, students examine the chemistry of living things, and they learn how interactions from atoms are fundamental to life as we know it.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Hydrocarbons
Learn about "hydrocarbons", chemical compounds whose molecules are made up entirely of carbon and hydrogen atoms.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Polarity and Intermolecular Forces
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The following online tutorial describes how the electronegativity difference between two atoms in a covalent bond results in the formation of a nonpolar covalent,...
Curated OER
Simon Fraser University: Molecules and the Properties of Bonded Atoms
Drawing of a caffeine molecule. Hydrogen = white; Carbon = blue; Oxygen = red
University of Arizona
University of Arizona: Biochemistry
Problem sets, tutorials, and activities related to biochemistry.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Chemical Structure of Methane
This diagram shows the chemical structure of methane. A methane molecule contains one carbon atom and four hydrogen atoms.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Otto Stern Biographical
This is a brief biography on the life and scientific work of Otto Stern, a physicist honored with the Nobel Prize in physics for his "development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton."