Meka's Chemistry Page 

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Tennessee state curriculum standard for Chemistry grades 9-12
Elements are organized in the standard Periodic Table according to atomic number and electron arrangement.  Compounds which form electrolytes in water solution may be classified as acids, bases, or salts.  Relative acidity is described using the pH scale.  Most chemical reactions can be classified as single replacement, double replacement, synthesis, decomposition, or oxidation-reduction.

Links to sites on Chemistry:
 

• Chemicool Periodic Table - This is a content resource website that can be used directly by the student or teacher in the classroom.  This interactive site includes the entire periodic table where when someone clicks on an element, one can find all of the information about this element such as name, atomic number, density, symbol, atomic weight, volume, and time of discovery among many other valuable pieces of information.

• Periodic Table of Poetry - This is a really fun website for students and teachers that combines chemistry and poetry together!  While exploring, one can click on an element and find a easy to remember poem about that element along with the symbol, atomic weight, and other useful properties of the element.

• Web Elements - In this content resource website students can click on elements in the interactive periodic table and find a description of the element, and its appearance can be seen along with reaction equations of how the element is  formed.

• CHEMystery - This site helps students study chemistry from the pH scale to reactions.  There is also a  forum for the students to discuss chemistry and get help from peers.

• The Mad Scientist Network - This website could probably be considered as a reference tool.  In this site, students as well as teachers  can look for answers to puzzling questions about science.  People may look under search our site or the madsci library to find answers.  Students may also ask questions about science, and the madsci moderators will answer the question.  The answers are geared toward whatever age level the child, or adult, is.

• The Periodic Table - This is a great resource for teachers to help them find information and history about the periodic table to implement in the classroom.  This site also gives information about the electron configuration of elements, and how the periodic table was formed.

• Chemistry - This is a reference tool for students and teachers.  It gives information about the arrangement of the periodic table and it's history all in encyclopedic format.

• Tom Leher's "The Elements" - This is a great site for teachers or students that has the names of the elements in a song that is sung to a recognizable tune to help remember the names.  The names of the elements are hot and when clicked on information and a picture of the element are seen.  A big bonus is that if you have a Macintosh computer, you can hear the song being sung!

• National Student Research Center - The NSRC has provided a model for students to engage in scientific research, and a place for them to publish their work.   This is a great idea for students to do  projects on chemical reactions and the periodic table, and this helps students to integrate technology into the classroom as well!  Teachers could also use this in the classroom to show students how to do research, and the teacher could develop a webpage of her own to teach the students about chemistry.

• Knights of the Periodic Table - This is a webliography of different sources about periodict tables.  There are links to great interactive periodic tables, interactive quizzes, and sites with general information on the periodic table.  This is great for teachers or students.

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