General chemistry (secondary school)

Web site looking at the contribution of chemistry to everyday life. Including a short video showing the importance of chemistry, teacher notes and lesson plans for KS3 on asthma and making pure drinking water.

Website written for students and teachers containing chemical information and resources related to the gases used in industry, as well as useful facts about careers in applied science or engineering.

Website containing over three hundred free diagrams for use by chemistry teachers.

From the University of Lverpool, this site has interactive simulations of molecular structures and reaction mechanisms relevent to the A-level specifications. These include: atomic orbitals, electrophilic addition, nucleophilic addition, nucleophilic substitution, elimination, electrophilic aromatic substitution and nucleophilic addition-elimination. A brilliant site to visualise compex reactions and molecular structures.

Education resources from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). The society's education activities cater for chemical scientists of all ages. They produce a wide range of resources for teachers, lecturers and students, deliver training and CPD courses, input into education policy and much more.

Browse over 200 experiments on the Practical Chemistry website.The site provides teachers of chemistry with a wide range of experiments to illustrate concepts or processes, as starting-points for investigations and for enhancement activities such as club or open day events. It also enables the sharing of skills and experience of making experiments work in the classroom. There is also lots of useful information for Science Technicians.

Website containing links to a vast number of short movie clips for Chemistry.

A site which has videos of a wide variety of chemistry experiments. The A-level section of the site is particularly geared towards the Salters chemistry A-level. There is also a section for KS3 and 4.