Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Experimental ideas
How long can you stretch a rubber band before it breaks
Is the Dixon Ticonderoga the strongest pencil?
What substances can control an iPod click wheel other than your finger?

Chemistry in 2 minutes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/aqa/rocks/atomsact.shtml
Quarter 1-3 in about 2 minutes

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Chemistry applets

Good link for chemistry applets

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chemlab/info/resources/applets.html

Biggest Chemical Companies in The World

The biggest companies in chemical industry on Earth are listed with business volume in billions of Euros.

  • Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik (BASF)(D) 28 (formerly IG-Farben)
  • Dow Chemical (USA) 27
  • DuPont (USA) 24
  • Bayer (D) 20 (formerly IG-Farben)
  • ExxonMobil Chemicals (USA) 20 (formerly Standard Oil)
  • Atofina (F) 20
  • BP Chemicals (GB) 13
  • Mitsubishi Chemicals (J) 12
  • Deutsche Gold- und Silber-Scheide-Anstalt (DEGUSSA)(D) 11(formerly IG-Farben)
  • Shell Chemicals (NL/GB) 11

links for me

http://www.sciencegeek.net/Chemistry/Powerpoints.shtml Good PPTs tough to open

http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/ Comic Periodic Table

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_edu/chemsites.html Links

http://www.creative-chemistry.org.uk/ Excellent resources and Worksheets ready to go careful with print format to standard American printers

http://www.allatoms.com/
Site with lots of potential for online chemistry projects for laptops give this one some time and research It is just junk now!!!

Chemistry Videos? http://dvaction.northwestern.edu/index.html

know how to use and read correct measurements from laboratory equipment such as a triple beam balance, graduated cylinder, ruler, thermometer, temperature probe, and pH probe.

Links I would suggest for student laptops

General Chemistry Online: Full of helpful tutorials and quizzes

Mr. Guch Explains
: One of my favorite sites, here are some tutorials for extra help

Tutorial and Quiz on Significant Figures

http://antoine.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/senese/tutorials/sigfig/index.cgi

Chemistry Demos

Monday, July 6, 2009

lazy daze of summer

New students for summer school then came home and took nap.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Summer School Prep Day

Started working summer school today.
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