Chemistry Resources For High School Teachers

[Lotte Donohoe]

EnergyFoundations for High School Chemistry

Free, fully-developed laboratory investigations, demos, student readings, and multimedia you can use to teach the big ideas about energy. The entire collection is available for free download in PDF format.

Landmark Lesson Plans

Inquiry-based student activities based on ACS National Historic Chemical Landmark subjects. Designed for use in high school chemistry and history lesson planning.

Green Chemistry Educational Resources

Introduce your students to green chemistry concepts.

Teaching Chemistry to Students with Disabilities (PDF)

A manual for high schools, colleges, and graduate programs, 4th edition. Published by the ACS Committee on Chemists with Disabilities. Addresses needs of students with learning and physical disabilities.

ACS Guidelines and Recommendations for Teaching Middle and High School Chemistry

Find research-based information about instruction, core ideas, safety, sustainability, and the professional responsibilities of teachers.

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AACT strives to provide teachers of chemistry with the best teaching resources. Most of the Classroom Resource Library is made up of content from great teachers who created and shared their own work.

The library is organized into three grade bands (elementary, middle and high). High school resources that are appropriate for advanced classes, such as AP or IB chemistry, can be found in our AP Collection.

A large collection of multimedia resources, including animations, simulations and videos are also available for use. Additionally, select resources are highlighted as part of themed resource collections. All of the available teaching resources are classified in the library by topic, subtopic, as well as resource type. We also have External Teaching Resources from the chemistry community.

Understanding NSF Research: Chemistry

Resource: All Audiences

From the foods we eat to the fragrances we smell, chemistry plays a key role in nearly every aspect of life. For instance, soaps, building materials, adhesives, vitamins and pharmaceuticals all rely on chemistry. Plastics and polymers revolutionized the world and now researchers are discovering ways to make these materials more earth-friendly.

Chemistry Now

Resource: Educators, Students (middle-high school), General Public

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This website hosts a video series exploring the chemistry of common objects in our world and the changes they undergo. NBC Learn, the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and NSF joined forces to create the series in celebration of the International Year of Chemistry. To delve deeper into the world of chemistry, there are: additional videos, including current and archival news stories related to chemistry, and lesson plans from NSTA for middle- and high-school students.

ChemEd DL: Chemistry Education Digital Library

Resource: Educator (high school-college) and Student (K-12 and above)

Describing itsefl as "everything you need to teach and to learn chemistry," this site is a collaborative, community-driven effort to provide digital resources, tools and services to aid in teaching and learning chemistry. Resources including interactive simulations, tutorials, activities, reference materials, images, video and more, spanning all aspects of chemcial education. The site offers collections for different areas of chemistry and for different educational levels (K-12, higher education).

WWW Chemistry Guide

Resource: Educator and Information Research (high school and above)

A collection of more than 250 links aimed primarily at chemists and researchers but also useful to teachers, organized by categories. The sites are reviewed by a team of editors for excellence and those sites offering the best information, resources, design and navigation are included.

Chem4Kids

Resource: Students (middle-high school)

Rader's Chem4Kids is a website for students learning the basics of chemistry. The site provides explanations, activities and other resources to aid students (and everyone) who wants to understand matter, atoms, elements, the periodic table, reachtions, biochemistry and more.

The TEA Science Curriculum team will host office hours in late July and early August on the following dates. TEA staff will respond to some common questions from the field and be available for grade-band and role-specific questions and answers.

While each date will focus on a specific grade band, please join us on any date you are available.

The TEA Science Curriculum Team is excited to announce the launch of the Science TEKS Guide. This tool will help provide a consistent and clear interpretation of the new science TEKS so that all science educators in Texas have the same understanding of the standards. To access this resource, select Science and a grade level or course in the drop-down menus.

TEKS in Focus spotlights concepts or student expectations monthly to bolster TEKS alignment, rigor, and collective understanding. It does not suggest an order or timing but helps with comprehension of TEKS changes, serving as a guide when relevant to classroom instruction.

The K-12 content vertical alignment documents show the alignment of concepts by topic area. The standards have been organized into four broad scientific disciplines: biology, chemistry, earth and space science, and physics. The K-12 Scientific and Engineering Practices and Recurring Themes and Concepts vertical alignment document shows the progression of practices and themes through the grade levels.

The Texas Education Agency has developed a collection of science resources that support the science Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). These resources can be used as instructional support in the science classroom.

The Texas Education Agency has developed a full collection of tools to support districts in developing a local STEM program aligned to the high-quality indicators identified by the state. The STEM tools are designed to support a district in planning and implementing a PK-12 STEM program aligned to the Texas STEM Framework.

The Texas Education Agency has developed a collection of STEM one-pagers that support STEM concepts in the science Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). These resources can be used to communicate STEM concepts in the science Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) to students, educators, and the community.

The 2024 - 2025 cycle will be for teachers of grade 7 through grade 12. In Texas, eligible teachers who submit a completed application by the PAEMST deadline will receive 25 CPE hours. For more information, please visit the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching website.

Lori Garrett was selected as a 2020 science PAEMST national awardee. Mrs. Garrett teaches pre-kindergarten through grade 4 / science & enrichment at Cactus Elementary School in Dumas ISD, Cactus, TX. Additional information on the announcement for Mrs. Garrett is available on her PAEMST website profile (outside source).

The 2020 competition recognizes grades 7 through 12 mathematics and science teachers whose innovative methods bring teaching to life in the classroom. The Texas state finalists were recognized in September 2021 at the Texas State Board of Education meeting and are listed below:

The 2022 competition recognizes kindergarten through grade 6 mathematics and science teachers whose innovative methods bring teaching to life in the classroom. The Texas state finalists in elementary science are listed below:

The 2024 competition recognizes kindergarten through grade 6 mathematics and science teachers whose innovative methods bring teaching to life in the classroom. The Texas state finalists are listed below:

UM-Flint students experience hands-on learning, meaningful interactions with their faculty, and access to state-of-the-art equipment in their departments. They also make memories that stick with them for a lifetime and inspire them to come back to campus. Two UM-Flint alumni, Mandi Davis and Theresa Krejci (both teachers for the Byron Area Schools), recently returned to UM-Flint with their own students. They were hoping to show off a little of what made their UM-Flint experiences so special while giving the students access to recently renovated laboratory spaces.

Krejci graduated in 1993 with a degree in biology, a minor in mathematics, and a general science teaching certificate. "It was nice to return and see that so many improvements had been made," she said. "The cadaver lab is equipped with lots of technology which allows for better learning for the students."

Krejci teaches physical science and anatomy & physiology. She has also served as a biology teacher, a middle school science teacher, and was the curriculum director at Byron Area Schools for 11 years. She coaches 8th grade volleyball, summer softball, and works with the youth at her church.

Krejci fondly remembers UM-Flint and appreciates the ways in which her time as a student prepared her for her career. "The class sizes were not huge and you were able to talk with your professors if you needed to," she recalled. "I enjoyed the lab experiences that I had while at U of M. I particularly enjoyed the field biology course that I took."

Byron honors chemistry students also visited UM-Flint, led by teacher and NHS advisor Mandi Davis. They were treated to chemistry demos by UM-Flint Chem Club students Noor Alawwa, Lynnette Harris, and Aaron Hancock, and then conducted their own experiments in one of the newly renovated Chemistry & Biochemistry Department labs.

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