Physical Science, Chemistry, Fun links, Physics, Current science events
Basics to Classroom Success
NEED
HELP FIGURING OUT HOW TO TAKE NOTES? Check out this link for some useful
note-taking strategies. This may help you when you get to college as well.
Why should I take notes and what strategies are involved when learning from a lecture? Also see this site.
Test taking strategies- Go to this site to learn about Test taking tips, study skills and tips, note-taking, cramming techniques, and reducing test anxiety.
Waterbears survive in space!
Physics and Chemistry Simulations: Great site for physics and for chemistry!!
Charges and Electricity: helpful tutorial for topics in Chapter 7
Theater of Electricity: Van de Graaf generators, man made lighting, how does a car protect you from lighting? What if you tough a car from the inside when it is struck by lightning? Are you safe in a convertible? And other fun topic from chapter 7
School for Champions: All you ever wanted to know about Physical Science and more! A tutorial for every topic we will cover!
Electricity and Magnetism: Great diagrams and plenty of information! Relates to chapters 7 and 8
Free fall: great site for free fall and other tutorials
TUTORIALS:
Scientific Notation Tutorial- from college algebra course
Significant Figures Tutorial- even offers some practice problems with
answers
ChemTutor: Lots of helpful summary information and worksheets.
Resonance Structures Tutorial- images of Lewis Dot Structures for
several molecules and polyatomic ions with resonance.
Bond
Energy
Molecular Formula practice
Orbitals and Quantum
Mechanics
Balancing
Equations
Gas Laws
Vapor
pressure, boiling vs. evaporation, Boiling point
HELPFUL:
Periodic Table: pictures, clues to the elements, information. Good for learning about the elements
Models of the atom: Ever wonder how Thomson actually concluded there was an electron when he couldn't see it? Check it out here!
Scientific
Notation Practice and answers!
Heisenberg's Uncertainty
Principle and Quantum Mechanics- all you ever wanted to know, and more!
Quantum numbers: need a deeper understanding of quantum numbers? Check this out!
Leptons, Muons, and Quarks: what the heck? There are MORE subatomic particles??? Look here for more information!
Help with predicting products of reactions: especially valuable to AP Chemistry
Acids and Bases: a bunch of other links to worksheets with answers, animations, etc. Great practice
ChemBalancer: Learn to balance equations, review, and challenge yourself!
How to Balance Equations: Mr. Guch's great directions for balancing equations. If you missed class, it'll be like you were here!
The Bonding Game: Ok, so it's not really a game... but it has a lot of information on bonding and Lewis structures! And it's presented in a pretty fun way.
General Chemistry Online: Quiz yourself. Online quizzes to help you practice key concepts and calculations in chemistry. Select what you need. Great practice and review site.
General Chemistry Summary: Mainly a collection of lecture notes and helpful hints. Great source for review or another perspective on the same information you learned in class.
ChemTutor: Lots of helpful summary information and worksheets.
Chemistry Practice: Online, instantly corrected practice problems plus information on what you did right or wrong.
High School Chemistry Tutorials: Tutorials specifically designed for high school chemistry. Includes everything you need to practice effectively.
Hybridization of orbitals
More on
hybridization of orbitals
Creative Chemistry: Play chemistry games, work puzzles, and find helpful activities.
Chemistry Fun and Humor: Take the bathroom chemistry quiz.
Interactive Chemistry: Work through helpful activities and tutorials. Find fun and safe home experiments.
The Comic Book Periodic Table: Find out which elements have appeared in comic books.
Chemistry Songs: Find songs related to Chemistry
Halloween chemistry: Find out how we would measure volume if pumpkins were the units for volume.
Physics and Astronomy Fun: Find physics and astronomy jokes and why Santa can’t exist.
Amusement Park Physics: Find out about the forces behind the rides.
DC Physics Humor: Cartoon laws of physics and other interesting information, such as the laws of physics for spam, and the secret to antigravity.