Learners research an assigned biogeochemical cycle. In this cycle activity, students need to determine that all cycles need energy to continue. The learners will look at a given cycle to describe it, research and draw an assigned cycle,...

In this atomic structure worksheet, students use the periodic table to complete a chart for 11 elements/ions in terms of atomic number, number of protons, neutrons and electrons.

For this resonance structures worksheet, students are given 4 rules to writing resonance structures. These include rules about electrons associated with atoms, the unpaired electrons, structures without octets and structures with more...

In this AP Chemistry worksheet, students apply concepts of electron configuration to accurately answer the questions provided. Students also draw Lewis structures of the given elements. Students estimate the enthalpy of formation as well...

In this elements worksheet, students write the electron configurations for given elements. Students describe ionization energy and electron affinity and the periodic trends for both. This worksheet has 20 short answer questions.

In this static electricity activity, students review terms and concepts relating to electricity. Students place 21 vocabulary words into a crossword puzzle.

In this chemistry instructional activity, students use the periodic table to complete the chart shown, filling in all of the missing information in the blank spaces. They identify and describe various elements found in the periodic table.

In this chemistry worksheet, students use the Internet to research the elements in the Periodic Table to locate the number of proton, neutrons, and electrons. They also draw pictures that illustrate one or more uses for their elements.

Students identify the location and change of the subatomic particles of an atom. They name the three subatomic particles. Students review what they can recall about subatomic particles. They are given a worksheet on the subatomic...

Students review how physical and chemical change while discussing the properties. They diagram the electron dot for the first four elements in the periodic table. Students identify elements and state what they know while investigating...

Learners act out different types of circuits, and create their own circuits using wire, a bulb, a battery and a switch.

In this atoms worksheet, students determine the velocity, wavelength, power, and frequency of given atoms. Student describe wave-particle duality and give the principle and angular quantum numbers for given orbitals. This worksheet has...

Young scholars discover that there are many facets to the electron in chemistry such as electron cloud. They view movies an animations of electrons. Students visit links pertaining to electrons.

A discussion of the Advanced Light Source (ALS) facility and its use in material analysis and medicine.

Do you have the magic touch? Watch as your finger mysteriously moves a pencil without touching it.

An excellent overview of Hund's Rules. Discusses all three rules thoroughly with provided diagrams.

An introduction to the Standard Model, a theory which attempts to explain atomic structure using leptons, quarks, and force carrier particles.

Identify the basic structure of atoms, the building blocks for all matter.

In the wires of electric circuits, an electron is the actual charge carrier. In this article, an electron's path through the external circuit is introduced.

Students can make a empty soda can roll with an electrically charged balloon.

Have you ever wondered who discovered the electron? The answer is Nobel Prize winning physicist Sir Joseph John Thomson.

This review from the Glenbrook South High School provides a series of questions on various topics associated with static electricity (such as electrical insulation). Answers and explanations are hidden, yet easily accessed from within a...