Online Periodic Table of the Elements

http://www.webelements.com/

This website is an online Periodic Table of the Elements.  Each element is a link to a site with loads of information and a picture of the element if one is available.  Spend a few minutes checking this site out…you never know what you might learn!

ChemFinder

www.chemfinder.com

Chemfinder.com is a website that has tons of information on just about any molecule you can think of.  It also provides a Lewis Structure for the molecule and has 3-D models available to download.  Note: this is a free site but you have to provide your email address if you don’t want the site to bother you after every few searches.

Chemistry Comes Alive!

http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/JCESoft/CCA/samples/index.html

The Journal of Chemical Education makes videos of chemistry demos that can be shown in the classroom.  Some of them are very cool.  I would suggest checking out “Ice Bomb.”  Don’t even ask...I can’t do that one in the classroom.

Alkali Metal Demonstration (Brainiac)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m55kgyApYrY

This is YouTube at its best.  This is a video from a British television program called Brainiac.  It is another demo that I would never even dream of doing in the classroom…you’ll see why.    

History of Chemistry

http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/ci/1992/

The history of chemistry helps us understand how we got to where we are today.  This website from the 1992 Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute sorts the history of chemistry into subject areas and major participants. 

Valley Library Special Collections

http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/

The Special Collections at Oregon State University's Valley Library holds many of the possessions of Corvallis legend, Linus Pauling, including his two Nobel Prizes.  If you can't get over there, you can check out what they have to offer online.  I encourage you to look through the "Linus Pauling Research Notebooks."  There is a link on the right side if you scroll down a little bit.  They are the scanned copies of Pauling's own research notebooks and have many interesting things in them.

University of Vermont MSDS Website

http://hazard.com/msds/index.php

This is the finest collection of Materials Safety Data Sheets I have found to date.  You can find information about just about any chemical you can think of by searching on this site.