We will go below the surface and learn how water chemistry plays an important role in the Rain Shadow Effect. First, check out the Watershed Council Director video to learn how the Powder Basin Watershed Council is supporting efforts to restore their rivers, streams, and lakes in an arid part of Eastern Oregon. In the Discovery Challenge video, explore and learn how water chemistry plays a role in the rain shadow effect causing Eastern Oregon to not get nearly as much rain as Western Oregon.

This lesson introduces NGSS standards, and those standards are listed in the lesson and is part of the Explore Science Club series, an online Career Connected Learning program developed by the Greater Oregon STEM Hub. To learn more find us at: www.go-stem.org.

These recitation, lab, and chapter worksheet ancillary materials for basic chemistry courses were developed under a Round 13 Mini-Grant.

This course covers the principles of main group (s and p block) element chemistry with an emphasis on synthesis, structure, bonding, and reaction mechanisms.

Green chemistry, in addition to being a science, it is also a philosophy and nearly a religion. Attendance at American Chemical Society Green Chemistry & Engineering Conferences will instill such an ideal into any attendant because of the nearly universal appeal and possibilities in this novel approach to radicalizing the business of doing science and engineering.

This 7-minute video lesson provides an introduction to chirality. [Organic Chemistry playlist: Lesson 19 of 73].

Introductory Chemistry Online is an open-source introductory chemistry textbook/workbook that is designed cover a college-level one-semester course. Many contemporary textbooks in chemistry seem have adopted the notion that "more is better"; the books are long, expensive, and the pages are often cluttered with interesting tidbits and restatements of what it is that you have “just learned”. The Chemistry Online text, on the other extreme, is designed to be simple, uncluttered and very much to the point.

A workbook with student practice problems and concepts that accompanies OA textbook Chemistry and the Environment.

This 9-minute video lesson looks at E2 elimination reactions. [Organic Chemistry playlist: Lesson 38 of 73].

Studying for the AP Chemistry exam? Watch these videos to help you prepare!

Chemistry: Atoms First is a peer-reviewed, openly licensed introductory textbook produced through a collaborative publishing partnership between OpenStax and the University of Connecticut and UConn Undergraduate Student Government Association.

This title is an adaptation of the OpenStax Chemistry text and covers scope and sequence requirements of the two-semester general chemistry course. Reordered to fit an atoms first approach, this title introduces atomic and molecular structure much earlier than the traditional approach, delaying the introduction of more abstract material so students have time to acclimate to the study of chemistry. Chemistry: Atoms First also provides a basis for understanding the application of quantitative principles to the chemistry that underlies the entire course.

This collection of videos, animations and documents comes from the NCSSM AP chemistry online course. This introduction provides practice and demonstrations of basic concepts of chemistry such as significant figures and the distinction between physical and chemical changes.

"Concept Development Studies in Chemistry" is an on-line textbook for an Introductory General Chemistry course. Each module develops a central concept in Chemistry from experimental observations and inductive reasoning. This approach complements an interactive or active learning teaching approach.

Hexagons appear all over the natural world from honeycomb to bubbles, and they even appear in organic chemistry! In this episode of Crash Course Organic Chemistry, we're learning all about cyclohexanes, including how rings pucker to relieve strain, the boat and chair conformations, and how ring flips can switch substituents from axial to equatorial. We'll practice a lot of chair flips, but don't flip an actual chair just yet! Lots of practice is key to understanding organic chemistry's favorite manifestation of the hexagon.

Overview:

On this webpage you will find OER Chemistry textbooks along with supplemental materials and a few lecture videos.
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This 17-minute video lesson looks at the Fisher esterification of carboxylic acids. [Organic Chemistry playlist: Lesson 68 of 73].

Today's episode dives into the HOW of enthalpy. How we calculate it, and how we determine it experimentally...even if our determinations here at Crash Course Chemistry are somewhat shoddy.

Chapters:
Hess' Law
Calorimeter
Calorimetry
Specific Heat Capacity
Calorimetry Sources of Error

Copyright held by Mark Bishop and Chiral Publishing Company. The content is freely available, but the website asks (but does not require) that repeat users pay $20 for the use of the text. This text is accompanied by end-of-chapter problems, PowerPoint presentations, animations, and tutorials. There is also an “atoms-first” version of the text.

This collection includes lesson plans, student activities, and clicker/discussion questions, all on the subject of gas properties in Chemistry. They were authored by Kerriann Reynolds from Plymouth State University.

This 13-minute video lesson looks at Zaitsev's Rule for E2 and E1 reactions. [Organic Chemistry playlist: Lesson 40 of 73].

The Basics of General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry covers general organic and biological chemistry concepts typically for one-semester chemistry courses.