Internet Resources for Science and Mathematics Education, collected by Tom O'Haver.

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Chemistry

Last updated and all links checked July 31, 2002

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Education

  1. Webspectra Problems in NMR and IR Spectroscopy at UCLA
    http://www.chem.ucla.edu/~webspectra/

  2. My Chem Class
    www.MyChemClass.net

  3. Didactics of Chemistry
    http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/nat_Fak_IV/Organische_Chemie/Didaktik/Keusch/index_e.html

  4. Polymer Chemistry Hypertext
    http://www.umr.edu/~wlf/

  5. ChemWeb 2000
    http://library.thinkquest.org/19957/

  6. Chemical Reaction and Stoichiometry
    http://www.chemical-stoichiometry.net/

  7. WebMO
    http://www.chem.hope.edu/webmo/index.html

  8. Ideas for Inquiry-Based Lab Projects
    http://www.ar.cc.mn.us/chemistry/ideas/

  9. Acid-base without algebra
    http://www.sfu.ca/chemcai/AQCHEM/ABG-ind.html

  10. Logal Simulation Library
    http://www.riverdeep.net/logalsimlibrary/simlibrary_jump.html

  11. Chembalancer
    http://www.dun.org/sulan/chembalancer/

  12. Chemistry Study Aids
    http://www.towson.edu/~ladon/

  13. The Optics of Spectroscopy
    http://www.isainc.com/systems/theory/oos/oos.htm

  14. Clustered Water Scams
    http://www.sfu.ca/aquascams/clusterscams.html

  15. Using Pseudoscience as an Aid to Teaching General and Analytical Chemistry
    http://www.spectrometer.org/path/path.html

  16. Chemistry Film Studio
    http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/vrchemistry/filmstudio/introduction/html/page01.htm

  17. The Basics of NMR
    http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/nmr/

  18. NMR course
    http://www.chem.queensu.ca/FACILITIES/NMR/nmr/webcourse/

  19. Quantitative Analysis
    http://www.chem.usu.edu/faculty/sbialkow/Classes/3600/chem3600.html#Links

  20. Using Computers in Chemical Education
    http://www.eclipse.net/~pankuch/Newsletter/Pages_News/NewsletterCCE.html

  21. ICSD Chemistry Zone
    http://207.10.97.102/chemzone/lessons/default.htm

  22. General Chemistry Online
    http://antoine.fsu.umd.edu/chem/senese/101/index.shtml

  23. Introductory Organic Chemistry
    http://amug.org/~rwiley/Organic_Chemistry_Site/oc_lecture_notes.htm

  24. NCSA ChemViz
    http://chemviz.ncsa.uiuc.edu/

  25. Survey of Chemistry
    http://www.riessoftware.com/

  26. MathMol Activity Center
    http://www.edinformatics.com/mathmol/  

  27. World Index of Molecular Visualization Resources
    http://molvis.sdsc.edu/visres/

  28. HMChem Demo site
    http://hmchemdemo.clt.binghamton.edu/

  29. SoftChemistry
    http://molecularsoft.com/

  30. Periodic Table Game
    http://highschoolhub.org/hub/f-periodic.cfm

  31. Chemistry World Wide Web Applications
    http://chemistry.csudh.edu/

  32. Interactive Simulations for Analytical Chemistry Instruction
    http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/Chemistry/ChemConference/Software/Spreadsheets/WWW/

  33. Recommendations on Organic & Biochemical Nomenclature, Symbols & Terminology
    http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iupac/

  34. Methods in Materials Research
    http://www.wiley.com/cp/mmr/

  35. Chempire: A Kingdom of Chemistry Resources
    http://library.thinkquest.org/28330/home.html

  36. Homework Central - Chemistry
    http://www.homeworkcentral.com/knowledge/vsl_sections.asp?sectionid=9264&flt=CAB

  37. LabWorks Computerized Laboratory Environment
    http://www.scitechnologies.com/

  38. The Second Law of Thermodynamics
    http://www.secondlaw.com/

  39. Molecular Models for Classroom Lectures and Demonstrations
    http://www.3dbiochem.com

  40. Indigo Molecular Models
    http://www.indigo.com/models/models.html

  41. Chemistry and the Internet - ChemInt2002
    http://www.chemint.org/

  42. Chemistry True Type Font
    http://www.monroecc.edu/wusers/flanzafame/ChemFont.htm

  43. Chemistry Tables
    http://www.monroecc.edu/wusers/flanzafame/PeriodicFigs.htm

  44. Science Help Online: Chemistry
    http://www.fordhamprep.pvt.k12.ny.us/gcurran/tutor/rcindex1.htm

  45. Chemistry tutorials from CSU Stanislaus
    http://wwwchem.csustan.edu/Tutorials/tutmenu.htm

  46. The IrYdium Project.
    http://ir.chem.cmu.edu/

  47. Chemistry Tutorial and Resource Page
    http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d43/chm/faculty/dorland/chime.html

  48. Chemistry Classes with At Home Labs
    http://www.uis.edu/~trammell/home_lab.htm

  49. Steve Marsden's Chemistry Home Page
    http://www.chemtopics.com/

  50. Countertop Chemistry
    http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/pams/science_house/learn/CountertopChem/index.html

  51. Chemistry Resources
    Chemistry 1
    Chemistry 2

  52. ChemCom (Chemistry in the Community) resource center
    http://lapeer.org/ChemCom/Index.html

  53. Chemistry Exam Exchange Center
    http://chem.lapeer.org/Exams/Index.html

  54. Chemistry in the Modern World Laboratory
    http://wwwchem.csustan.edu/chem1002/chem1002.htm

  55. Advanced Chemical Topics
    http://www.chem.vt.edu/RVGS/ACT/lab/ACT-lab.html

  56. Aufbau1
    http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~rpeters1/index.htm#CHEMISTRY

  57. "HOLY MOL-EE!" Sing-along Chemistry
    http://sing-smart.com

  58. Molecular Model for an Ideal Gas
    http://didaktik.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~pkrahmer/ntnujava/idealGas/idealGas.html

  59. WWW Living Book of Physical Chemistry
    http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/sci/chem/index.htm

  60. Cosmic Chemistry: An Elemental Question
    http://www.genesismission.org/educate/scimodule/index.html

  61. Heat: An Agent of Change
    http://www.genesismission.org/educate/scimodule/heat/index.html

  62. Infrared Spectroscopy Web Links for Organic Chemists
    http://www.dq.fct.unl.pt/qoa/jas/ir.html

  63. TeleSpek: Telecooperation in Spectroscopy
    http://www2.chemie.uni-erlangen.de/services/telespec/  

  64. Interactive WWW Experiments in Chemistry Education
    http://chemistry2.csudh.edu/newstuff/newstuff.html

  65. Torganal: Tasmanian produced qualitative Organic Analysis program
    http://www.chem.utas.edu.au/staff/blackman/shareware/torganal.htm

  66. What's Happening at Other High School Chemistry Sites?
    http://www.chemistrycoach.com/hs_chemistry_sites.htm#What's%20Happening  

  67. The Scientist Video Clips
    http://tc.unl.edu/rbonnstetter/60ss.htm

  68. Lecture PLUS Chemistry Modules
    http://www.karentimberlake.com/lecturep.htm

  69. SCUBA Diving Explained
    http://www.mtsinai.org/pulmonary/books/scuba/welcome.htm

  70. Chemical Stuff
    http://www.carlton.paschools.pa.sk.ca/chemical/

  71. Molecular Spectroscopy
    http://www.hwscience.com/smarsden/aplab/molspec.pdf

  72. Science in the Marketplace
    http://members.home.net/hkorchin/index.html

  73. ACD/ChemBasic : Programming language for chemists
    http://www.acdlabs.com/products/chem_dsn_lab/chembasic//

  74. Hands-on Experiments
    http://www.chemcenter.org/ncw/handson.html

  75. SMILE program chemistry index
    http://www.iit.edu/~smile/cheminde.html

  76. Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab
    http://www.spartechsoftware.com/reeko/  

  77. The Bubblesphere
    http://bubbles.org/

  78. Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering
    http://www.mse.uiuc.edu/info/mse182/overheads.html

  79. CompTutor
    http://www.umr.edu/~gbert/tutorials.html

  80. Understanding Fluorescence
    http://www.mdyn.com/app_notes/technotes/TN57/TN57.HTM

  81. Magnetic water treatment and other scams
    http://www.sfu.ca/aquascams  

  82. OMEGAweb™ Technical Reference
    http://www.omega.com/techref/  

  83. General Chemistry: starting points for students
    http://www.sfu.ca/chemcai/genchem.html

  84. Tutorials on writing and visualization of molecular structures
    http://www2.gasou.edu/chemdept/general/molecule/index.htm

  85. QuickTime Movies, GIF Animations, and Streaming Audio
    http://www.shsu.edu/~chm_tgc/sounds/sound.html

  86. Multimedia Extravaganza
    http://www.molecules.com/movies_fs.htm

  87. Chemistry Teaching Resources
    http://www.anachem.umu.se/eks/pointers.htm

  88. The ChemLinks Coalition
    http://chemlinks.beloit.edu/

  89. ACS Education Division
    http://www.acs.org/education/

  90. ACS ChemCenter
    http://www.acs.org/servlet/ACSHomePage  

  91. Journal of Chemical Education Online
    http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/

  92. 3D periodic table of radii and Inorganic structure database
    http://www.wsu.edu/~wherland/

  93. Chemistry Higher Education Workgroup (CHEW)
    http://soulcatcher.chem.umass.edu/

  94. World Lecture Hall: Chemistry
    http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~rebecca/threemonkeys/microbiology.html#  

  95. C4: Computers in Chemistry at Cabrillo College
    http://c4.cabrillo.cc.ca.us/

  96. The Chemistry Place
    http://www.chemplace.com

  97. Descriptive Chemistry
    http://www.cci.unl.edu/Chemistry/Desc/Start2.html

  98. Elemental Discoveries Magazine
    http://www.sciencebase.com

  99. Reactive Reports Magazine
    http://www.acdlabs.com/webzine

  100. ActivChemistry
    http://www.salamanderinteractive.com/ACgetAC.html

  101. WWW Project For Chemistry
    http://chemistry2.csudh.edu/

  102. Chemistry Multimedia
    http://www.ncl.ox.ac.uk/it/chemfun2.html

  103. Learning Matters of Chemistry
    http://www.knowledgebydesign.com/tlmc/tlmc.html

  104. Stereochemistry Online
    http://www.colby.edu/chemistry/OChem/STEREOCHEM/index.html

  105. BioChemLinks (was: BioChemNet)
    http://biochemlinks.com/bclinks/bclinks.cfm

  106. Molecular Models for Biochemistry
    http://info.bio.cmu.edu/Courses/BiochemMols/BCMolecules.html

  107. Interactive Biochemistry
    http://cti.itc.Virginia.EDU/~cmg/Demo/contents.html

  108. Amino Acid Tutorials
    http://www-mcb.ucdavis.edu/courses/bis102/

  109. DNA Structure: An Interactive Animated Nonlinear Tutorial (version 2.3)
    http://www.umass.edu/microbio/chime/dna/index.htm

  110. Basics of DNA Fingerprinting
    http://www.biology.washington.edu/fingerprint/dnaintro.html

  111. Molecular Modeling for Chemical Education
    http://www.molecules.org/index.html

  112. The Chemistry Tutor CD-ROM
    http://www.liv.ac.uk/ctichem/c3HM.html

  113. QuickTime Movies for Chemistry
    http://www.chem.arizona.edu/courses/chem242/movies.html

  114. The Edison Project For Communicating Chemistry
    http://www.columbia.edu/cu/chemistry/edison/Edison.html

  115. Chemistry Visualized: The World of Physical Chemistry
    http://www-wilson.ucsd.edu/education/  

  116. ChemConnections
    http://mc2.cchem.berkeley.edu/

  117. The Organic Chemistry Student Resource Page
    http://www.colby.edu/chemistry/OChem/OChemHome241.HTML

  118. Organic Reaction Mechanisms Movies
    http://www.chemistry.mcmaster.ca/courses/2oa3/movies.html  

  119. Chemistry Education Discussion List (CHEMED-L)
    http://www.optc.com/chemed-l-thread/

  120. Eureka Group
    http://www.eurekagroup.com

  121. Instructional Software from Chem1Ware Ltd.
    http://www.chem1.com/

  122. Peer Led Team Learning Workshop
    http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~chemwksp/

  123. On-line Chemistry Course on industrial and environmental chemistry
    http://www.py.iup.edu/college/chemistry/chem-course/webpage.html

  124. Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion (VSEPR)
    http://www.chem.purdue.edu/gchelp/vsepr/

  125. Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion (VSEPR)
    http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/vsepr/

  126. Principles of Chemistry
    http://vax1.bemidji.msus.edu/~chemistry/chemhome.html

  127. Old home page of MathMol (Mathematics and Molecules K-12)
    http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/

  128. ALCOM - Liquid Crystals
    http://olbers.kent.edu/alcomed/dhtml1.html

  129. Understanding Our Planet Through Chemistry
    http://minerals.cr.usgs.gov/gips/aii-home.htm

  130. WebElements 2
    http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/web-elements/

  131. Vernier Software
    http://www.vernier.com/

  132. LIMSport
    http://www.kutztown.edu/faculty/vitz/limsport/limshome.html

  133. Chemistry Hypermedia Project
    http://www.chem.vt.edu/chem-ed/vt-chem-ed.html

  134. An Introduction to Chemistry on the Internet
    http://chemlinks.beloit.edu/MolecularModel/internet.html

  135. North American Chapter of the Chemometrics Society
    http://iris4.chem.ohiou.edu/

  136. NMR Concepts
    http://science.widener.edu/svb/nmr/about.html
    http://science.widener.edu/svb/nmr/nmr.html

  137. The Ozone Secretariat
    http://www.unep.ch/ozone/
  138. WWW VL: Chemistry: Biographies
    http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/refbiog.html
            Large listing of biographies of famous chemists.

  139. 1001 Periodic Table of Elements Quiz Questions
    http://www.1001-periodic-table-quiz-questions.com
            Over 1000 free, interactive science and chemistry quiz questions sorted by topic and age 
            (grade).

  140. Chemware
    http://chemware.co.nz
            Windows Educational Software & Shareware for High School, College and University 
            Students and Teachers. 

  141. MakoLab's AMSOL
    http://www.makolab.com/amsol/
            A quantum chemistry software calculating atomic charges and free energies in different 
            solvation models.
  142. ChemSpy.com
    http://www.chemspy.com
            ChemSpy.com makes the most important Chemistry and Chemical Engineering related
            www-Databases readily accessible for Professionals, Scientists and Students.  This site
            helps users find chemistry and chemical engineering related terms, definitions, synonyms, 
            acronyms and abbreviations. Also search forms for finding MSDS/safety data, scientific
            publications in over 20,000 different journals, physical data of chemical compounds, worldwide
            patents and spectral data are available.
  143. Organic Nomenclature tutorial, by Dave Woodcock
  144. Learning and Problem Solving in Chemistry, by Dave Woodcock
  145. The Chemical Educator, online chemistry education journal 
  146. Chemistry Course for Non-Science Majors, by Tom O'Haver
  147. Course on Electronics and Computer Interfacing in Chemistry, by Tom O'Haver
  148. Chemistry Textbook Archive, by Journal of Chemical Education
  149. List of chemistry textbooks in print, by Journal of Chemical Education
  150. FTP archive of ChemViz (Chemical Visualization project, 1995)
  151. The Chemical Heritage Foundation (history of chemistry)
  152. The Iowa General Chemistry Network
  153. Virtual Textbook on Polymers and Liquid Crystals
  154. Virtual Courses on General, Organic & Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry Laboratory; Separations and Chemometrics
  155. CER, Chemical Education Resources (commercial publisher)
  156. CIRRUS: Undergraduate Chemistry Research
  157. Chemistry Teaching Materials, by Scott Van Bramer
  158. Hyperactive Molecules, Part 1
  159. Hyperactive Molecules, Part 2
  160. Australian Computational Chemistry via the Internet Project
  161. Gateway to the World of Chemistry, by Ralph Logan
  162. Tutorial on Oxidation and Reduction, Kapiolani Community College

    Chemistry Software

  163. Atom in a Box (real-time visualization of QM atomic orbitals)
  164. Linux4Chemistry: chemistry software for the Linux operating system. 
  165. Macs in Chemistry, a resource for chemists using Apple Macintosh computers
  166. MacMolecule 2 and PCMolecule 2  
  167. Chemical Engineering Software
  168. Tom Kuppens' Chemistry Software Reference
  169. Free Desktop and Web-based IUPAC Naming software
  170. JChem, a chemical database building tool for developers
  171. Marvin, Java applets for drawing and displaying structures in web browsers 
  172. Software for Introductory Chemistry
  173. Cherwell Scientific Publishing: scientific software
  174. Galactic Software, Spectroscopy Software Solutions
  175. PolyChem, chemistry teaching software 
  176. Falcon Software, chemistry education software
  177. MoluCAD, a new molecular animation application.
  178. ChemLab, chemistry lab simulation for Windows and Mac
  179. Chime, free molecule display browser plugin
  180. RASMOL, displays rotatable 3D models of molecules. 
  181. Advanced Chemistry Development: Chemsketch and other products
  182. MS Wizard, IR Wizard, NMR wizard, etc.
  183. HyperChem molecular modeling software for Windows
  184. Journal of Chemical Education Online
  185. "S.P.E.C.T.R.U.M.", freeware signal processing tool and tutorial package
  186. Interactive Simulations for Analytical Chemistry Instruction
  187. Steve Lower's ChemCAI: Instructional Software for Chemistry
  188. Software Reviews from the CTI Centre for Chemistry
  189. CTI Centre for Chemistry Software Catalogue
  190. The Sheffield FTP chemistry software archive (Macintosh)
  191. MathCad in Chemistry
  192. Study Aids from U. of Kentucky
  193. Downloadable Macintosh science software, including chemistry
  194. ChemWindow 6, From Bio-Rad Laboratories
  195. ChemWeb - free chemical structure drawing tool for HTML documents
  196. ISIS/Draw, free structure drawing program
  197. Organic Synthetic Method Computer Database (Free demo)
  198. Wavefunction, Inc. (Spartan and MacSpartan software)
  199. CS ChemOffice Net (free molecular model viewer)
  200. 2D Structure Converter, 3D Model Converter, and other free software
  201. CHEMiCALC, The Chemists' Calculator 
  202. Chemical process calculator with thermodynamics database
  203. PTViz: Free Periodic Table Illustrator software for Mac
  204. The Official Gaussian Home Page
  205. SCULPT, has been acquired by MDLI.
  206. WebLab molecular 3D Viewer
  207. Oxford Molecular Group: computer-aided chemistry and bioinformatics software.
  208. Infochem Ltd, UK, distributors of software for molecular modeling, chemical inventory, chromatography, spectroscopy

    Other lists of chemistry links on the Internet

  209. About: Extensive set of chemistry links
  210. Open Directory Project chemistry links
  211. The Catalyst: Chemistry Resources For The Secondary Education Teacher On The WWW
  212. Organic Chemistry Sources Worldwide
  213. Links for Chemists / WWW Virtual Library: Chemistry
  214. Rolf Claessen's Chemistry Index
  215. Chemistry Education Resources at SciEd
  216. The Analytical Chemistry Springboard (Annotated collection by Knut Irgum)

    Chemical Data

  217. Spectra Online, searchable database of molecular spectra.
  218. WebMolecules: Over 150,000 3D molecular models in 6 styles
  219. Interactive Periodic Table with 9 key attributes
  220. FTNMR Spectra in NUTS Format
  221. Integrated Spectral Data Base System for Organic Compounds
  222. David Sullivan FT-IR Library
  223. Bio-Rad Software Databases
  224. NIH "Molecules R US" Utililty (PDB look-up)
  225. NIST Chemistry WebBook: thermochemical, thermophysical, and ion energetics data
  226. ChemFinder: A versatile searchable chemical database
  227. 1400+ Molecular Models in .pdb Form
  228. Chemistry Art Gallery (Finland)
  229. Material Saftey Data Sheets (Cornell)
  230. Chemical Safety Information (UK)
  231. WebElements 2 Periodic Table (UK)
  232. The 1999 CODATA Recommended Values of Fundamental Physical Constants 
  233. Protein Data Bank (PDB): an archival computer database of three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules.  
  234. The FTNMR Free Induction Decay Archive
  235. Center for Air Pollution Impact and Trend Analysis, CAPITA
  236. Downloadable food composition databases
  237. Composition of alloys
  238. Standard Reduction Potentials
  239. Dissociation Constants of Common Acids and Bases
  240. Solubility products
  241. Concentrations of common commercial acids and bases
  242. Equilibrium Constants
  243. Periodic Table -- A Word Perfect 5.1 file, downloadable only
  244. Food composition

    On-Line Conferences

  245. First CHEMCONF On-line Chemistry Education Conference, 1993
  246. First Chemometrics On-line Conference (INCINC '94)
  247. First Electronic Computational Chemistry Conference (ECCC 1994)
  248. "Faculty Rewards: Can We Implement the Scholarship of Teaching?", 1995
  249. First Electronic Conference on Trends in Organic Chemistry (ECTOC 1995)
  250. Second Electronic Computational Chemistry Conference (ECCC-2 1995)
  251. ChemConf '96: Summer 1996 On-line Chemistry Education Conference
  252. Electronic Conference on Heterocyclic Chemistry (ECHET96)
  253. ChemConf '97: Summer 1997 On-line Chemistry Education Conference
  254. The Electronic Conference of Chemical Research by Undergraduate Students
  255. Interactive Conference for Undergraduate Organic Chemistry 1997
  256. ChemConf '98 School year conference, January 16 to May 1, 1998
  257. The Role and Nature of Research by Undergraduates in Chemistry. (April 3 to May 5, 2000)
  258. CONFCHEM home page 

    Miscellaneous

  259. Einstein's Garage
  260. ChemWeb, the World Wide Club for the Chemical Community
  261. The Chlorine Dioxide Water Treatment Resource Center
  262. Classical & Statistical Thermodynamics & Mechanics Educational Sites
  263. Technical thermochemistry
  264. Chemistry Clip Art (Macintosh)
  265. Molecular dynamics simulations on large systems
  266. Cornell Theory Center
  267. MicroWorlds: Interactive tour of LBL's Advanced Light Source
  268. FUSION energy educational Web site
  269. Electrochemical Science and Technology Information Resource (ESTIR) 

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