Download this Apple and Android app which simulates a huge range of chemical reactions and find lots of interactive information about the chemical elements.
California's Tech Museum of Innovation: engineering-design lab lesson plans, uses available materials and explores electromagnetism, solar energy, force and motion, chemical properties, engineering and earthquakes, genetics. Mostly targeted at middle school levels.
This Apple app bills itself as 'part toy, part chemistry experiment'. Connect augmented reality blocks to digitally mix/react chemicals together and view the information and visualisations. No fume cupboard necessary.
From our mobile phones to our televisions, silicon chips are a part of much of our daily lives. Where does silicon come from? Much of it comes from sand. The following video from the Chemical Heritage Foundation explains the concept of how silicon chips are created.
Do most students think about the effect of these issues on their everyday lives?
Do our students consider the roles they might play in changing how a science-connected problem is resolved over the coming decades?
Proficient science readers will read the text that correlates to a table of data, for example, and then study the table, looking for features like units of measure, data range values, and column titles. They will then look back at the text to reread, or continue reading, in an effort to connect this information to the text.
Visit data centers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
for real data on everything from the level of oceanic sediments to the locations of toxic chemical storage sites in the United States.