Student and Educators
Resources for National Chemistry Week 2009
Celebration Overview
NCW Youth Activity Patch
Student Activities and Resources
- Poster Contest
- Chemvention Competition
- Activities for Children
“Science for Kids” activities. Spanish version. - What’s Missing in This Picture?
Learn about elements that were discovered or researched by chemists with disabilities. - Celebrate “Chemistry—It’s Elemental” with Fun Online Games
Element Memory Game
Periodic Table Element Memory game! Try to find all of the matching pairs of elements in this card game. The game is over when you have matched all of the pairs and all the cards are gone.
Element Matching Game
It’s Elemental matching game! The computer will give you a list of chemical symbols and a list of chemical names. Choose the chemical name that each chemical symbol represents. Press the 'Check my answers!' button after you have made your choices - Meg A. Mole Career Profiles
Read about all of Meg’s adventures! These interviews are an excellent resource for teachers to inform their students about the activities chemists perform everyday. - Chemistry Career Profiles
- ChemMatters
The premier chemistry magazine for high school students.
Educator Resources
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Introduce the elements and the periodic table to your students (Grades 4-8) with this modifiable presentation. - NCW 2009 – Book List
A compendium of books related to the NCW theme sorted by topic with annotations from Chemists in the Library. - NCW 2009 – Electronic Resources List
A compendium of websites and other resources related to the NCW theme sorted by topic with annotations from Chemists in the Library. -
Integrate this fun laboratory experiment mentioned in the NCW 2009 issue of Celebrating Chemistry article, “Sunshine Science: Green Chemistry and Solar Energy” into your High School Chemistry curriculum (Greener Approaches to Undergraduate Chemistry Experiments, ACS). - Terrific Science
Free activities that you can download. - Journal of Chemical Education
A journal for chemical educators featuring activities and articles. - Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF)
CHF maintains a world-class collection of materials that document the history and heritage of the chemical and molecular sciences, technologies, and industries.