ChemMatters

A Magazine for High School Chemistry Students

ChemMatters, the award-winning magazine for high school chemistry, demystifies chemistry at work in our everyday lives. Each issue includes a Teacher’s Guide containing background information, follow-up hands-on activities, classroom demonstrations, and other resources to facilitate student comprehension.

Current issue

Table of Contents

April 2009

Free articles

• Question from the Classroom
• Letting Off Steam
  Spanish translation
• Chocolate: The New Health Food. Or Is It?
• ChemMatters Web Links

Available in print only

• Rainforests: A Disappearing Act
• Those Blooming Algae!
• Air Pollution: What Weather Satellites Tell Us
• Using Chemistry to Protect the Environment: Interview with Christopher Reddy, Environmental Chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

ChemMatters Teacher’s Guide

April 2009

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The ChemMatters Teacher’s Guide includes background information, connections to chemistry concepts and the National Science Education Standards, student projects, and possible student misconceptions.