High School Chemistry Resources

Top Ten Reasons to Take Chemistry

10) It's fun to say "Erlenmeyer"
9) If your parents ground you, dissolve their car!
8) Mr. Guch's Chili Recipe!
7) Colleges like it more than "Basketweaving 101"
6) It makes you look smart, like what's his name, that physics dude in the wheelchair
5) Find out what's in your school lunch!
4) You don't have to mess with dead things like in Biology.
3) Goggles, Goggles, Goggles!
2) You don't have to get all sweaty like you do in P.E.
1) Many major corporations are now asking applicants to balance equations

Textbook:  Glencoe Chemistry Matter and Change (2002/2001 version)

• Online Quizes/resources by chapter
• Chemistry: Matter and Change, Student Edition
• Chemistry: Matter and Change; Study Guide for Content Mastery
• Solving Problems: a Chemistry Handbook (Matter and Change)

DVD Math supplement
Textbook order goes fairly well with the Teaching Company's Chemistry, 2nd Edition DVD's

Another supplement
For straight forward descriptions, though the title is horrible, Complete Idiot's Guide to Chemistry follows the same rough outline with descriptions of what's going on.

Here are some online worksheets for Chemistry:
http://misterguch.brinkster.net/practiceworksheets.html
and, from the same site, some online tutorials: http://misterguch.brinkster.net/explains2.html
(Check out the Gas Law tips and how to keep them straight -- some very funny stories!)

• Reaction Worksheets (13): Balancing equations, word equations, stoichiometry, gas stoichiometry, percent yield, reaction types, limiting reagents, redox reactions, solution stoichiometry.
• Solutions Worksheets (16): Molarity, molality, mole fraction, dilutions, acids and bases, pH, pOH, titrations, weak acids, colligative properties, Ksp calculations, making solutions, pop quiz, like dissolves like.
• Covalent and Metallic Materials Worksheets (12): Lewis structures, VSEPR, polarity, intermolecular forces, practice test, properties of metals.
• Naming Compounds Worksheets (9): Naming ionic and covalent compounds, organic compounds, acids and bases.
• Gas Law Worksheets (8): Combined & ideal gas laws, Boyle's law, Charles's law, Dalton's law of partial pressures, RMS velocity problems, gas stoichiometry.
• Calculations Worksheets (6): Unit conversions, molar masses, grams-moles-molecules, percent composition.
• Miscellaneous Worksheets (16): Sig figs, types of solids, phase diagrams, electron configurations, subatomic particles, nuclear reactions, scientific notation, heats of reaction, Le Chatlier's principle, calorimetry, functional groups, first semester review sheet, properties of ionic compounds.
• Practice Final Exam, Multiple Choice Only - It may not cover everything you did in your class, but it's a start!