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Chapter 6: Chemical Reactions

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Reactions
This site gives an extensive overview of chemical reactions. Visit this site and describe three different types of reactions.

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Photosynthesis Directory
This site explains how plants use photosynthesis to store energy from the sun. Visit this site and explain how you end up using the energy from the sun that the plants store with photosynthesis.

Perpetual Motion Machines
This private home page details how the second law of thermodynamics prohibits perpetual motion machines. Visit this site and explain why perpetual motion machines are impossible to build.

Your Digestive System and How it Works
Visit this site to learn how our bodies use food. Which type of food is a source of high energy? Choose three different foods you have eaten in the past week and determine what you got from them, whether it be nutrients or energy.

Air Pollution: Halogens and Ozone Depletion
Chemistry Visualized offers several videos and pictures demonstrating the theory of ozone depletion. Visit this site and explain why ozone depletion, if true, is a concern.

Catalytic Converters
Here you can find some detailed videos and images that describe how catalytic converters work. Visit this site and discover how these devices make our air cleaner.

Unit 1: Chemical Interactions

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How Things Work
A site maintained by A. Bloomfield, the author of "How Things Work: the Physics of Everyday Life." Students can read old questions or ask Bloomfield their own. As a group, formulate a question for Bloomfield and ask it.

The Particle Adventure Home Page
An in-depth description of particles; includes a QuickTime movie and various links to a variety of nuclear subjects. Go through the adventure and write a journal entry about your experiences.

Taits Periodic Table of Elements
This site features an interactive periodic table with information on the different groups and all the elements. Visit this site to learn more about a specific group of elements, like the Noble Gases.

Chemical Bond
This site gives a very general breakdown of the different types of chemical bonds. Form a small group and together create a catalog of common substances and what types of bonds they contain.

Types of Chemical Reactions
This educational Web page, maintained in Utah, explains the different types of chemical reactions. Visit this site and, under the supervision of your teacher and in a small group, run the experiments linked at the bottom of the page.