Teaching Chemistry to your children or teens can seem like a daunting task. You want your offspring to be able to learn about this important branch of science, but balancing chemical equations may not be your specialty. Also, you don’t want your house to be blown up by a random science experiment.
Fortunately, there are websites out there that offer resources such as videos, online activities, and printables that can help you out with teaching chemistry to your little (or big) homeschoolings. (I made that word up. It refers to your homeschooled little darlings. 😉 )
Below you’ll find a list of these goodies. With any luck, you’ll find something on it that will enable you to teach Chemistry properly and sleep nights knowing that that chemical experiment in your fridge won’t turn into a monster.
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Online Resources for Teaching Chemistry
Chem4Kids: This site caters to kids. It offers online lessons and activities about chemistry in a kid-friendly way. A Spanish version is also available.
Creative Chemistry: This site offers online activities, worksheets, and notes.
Khan Academy: This section of the Khan Academy has a complete collection of videos about chemistry.
Steve Spangler Science: You’ll find plenty of fun video demonstrations of science-in-action on Steve Spangler’s site.
Ask the Nerd: You’ll find an online textbook, chapter answers, slides, and tutorials for chemistry at the high school level.
Science Geek: Offers tons of resources for teaching high school Chemistry, AP Chemistry, and Biology.
Soft Schools: Soft Schools offers plenty of free online resources.
Syvum: This page offers quiz activities and games online.
MIT: This is MIT’s open courseware.
Carnegie Mellon University: This is a free course put out by Carnegie Mellon.
LearnersTV: Free videos of lectures are available here.
The Cavalcade o’ Chemistry: Students can get free chemistry tutorials and practice pages here.
The Cavalcade o’ Teaching: This is the teacher site that goes with The Cavalcade o’ Chemistry. It has free textbooks, worksheets, labs, and other resources.
Susan Piepho: Susan has a collection of free worksheets on this page.
I hope you found some helpful resources for teaching Chemistry. Bookmark or pin this page and check back often as I will add more resources as I find them.
Many blessings,
