Chemical Information Sources/SIRCh/Teaching and Study of Chemistry

SIRCh: Selected Internet Resources for Chemistry

Guides

• Resources for Chemistry Educators
• Science Information Literacy (ACRL)
• Open Courseware Consortium
• Organic Chemistry Toolkit (St. Olaf's)
• Intute
• Martindale's The Reference Desk
• Chemistry Teaching Resources (Knut Irgum)
• Journal of Chemical Education Chemical Education Resource Shelf
• The Chemists' Net an e-mail discussion forum for chemistry teachers
• Webercises Directory (Steven Murov)
• Chemmybear.com (Paul Groves)
• The Catalyst: Chemistry Resources for The Secondary Education Teacher(Michael Geyer)
• Access Excellence: The Site for Health and Biosciences Teachers and Learners
• Educational Materials for Organic Chemistry [EMOC (Abby Parrill)
• ACS Education (American Chemical Society)
• Chemistry in Context Web site (McGraw-Hill)
• The Chemistry Place (Peregrine Publishers)
• Chemistry Internet Resources for High School Students (Rosa Hemphill)
• The gateway to 21st Century Skills Educational materials website organized and searchable by subject. Contains links to other sites.
• goENC.com Contains K-12 math and science curriculum resources
• Physical Chemistry On-line On-line, openly available resources to aid in the study of physical chemistry.
• See also: Molecular Visualization Tools and Sites

Journals

• Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education
• The Chemical Educator
• Journal of Chemical Education
• Education in Chemistry

Textbooks

• Chemical Education Resource Shelf (formerly, Chemistry Textbooks in Print)
• Pearson Chemistry

Demonstrations, Laboratory Experiments, and Teaching Modules

• The Chemistry Collective: Online Resources for Teaching and Learning Chemistry (Carnegie-Mellon)
• ChemJOULE The Chemistry Journal of Undergraduate Laboratory Experiments
• Project Chemlab Annotated File of Laboratory Experiments in Chemistry from the Journal of Chemical Education
• GenChem Pages of Common Laboratory Equipment or Procedures (University of Wisconsin)
• ChemConnections (Berkeley)
• ChemConnections (Beloit)
• Delights of Chemistry – Chemistry Demonstrations (Leeds)
• Teaching and Research Web Site (David W. Brooks, University of Nebraska, Lincoln)

Educational Software

• Resources for Chemistry Educators by Stephen Lower, Simon Fraser University (retired)
• Journal of Chemical Education Software
• Chemistry Education Windows Software and Shareware by Bruce Levett (Napier Boys' High School, New Zealand)
• ChemGameTutor (Peter Lichten, Byram Hills High School)
• Spectral Game (for NMR IR spectra)
• Introducing SpecInfo (for Wiley spectra collections)

Professional Groups in Chemical Education

• American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Education (CHED)
• ACS CHED Examinations Institute
• American Chemical Society Committee on Professional Training (CPT)
• Institute for Chemical Education ICE (University of Wisconsin)

Graduate Schools

• College and University Rankings (University of Illinois Education & Social Science Library)
• DGRWeb (ACS Directory of Graduate Research)
• Science Master's Education (Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology)
• Planning for Graduate Work in Chemistry (ACS CPT)
• US News & World Report Rankings
  • US News Rankings: Chemistry Graduate Schools
• Academic Rankings of World Universities Since 2003

Ethics in Science

• Ethics in Science at the University of Vermont

Teaching Chemical Information

• Information Competencies for Chemistry Undergraduates: the elements of information literacy (ACS Division of Chemical Information and SLA Chemistry Division, 2nd ed., May 2011)
• Chemical Information Retrieval (ACS)
• Teaching Chemical Information Workshop Materials
• XCITR: eXplore Chemical Information Teaching
• Chemical Information for Non-Practitioners (Judith Currano)

Miscellaneous

• ChemgaPedia, a comprehensive curricular encyclopedia for chemistry
• CONFCHEM Conferences on Chemistry organized by the Division of Chemical Education of the ACS
• Undergraduate Professional Education in Chemistry: Guidelines and Evaluation Procedures (ACS CPT)
• EPiC Experiential Programs in Chemistry(ACS)
• Project 2061 (AAAS)
• RSC Imaage Collection
• Organic Chemistry Multiple Choice Questions (Richard C. Banks, Boise State)
• CIRRUS; Chemistry Internet Resource for Research by Undergraduate Students
• Presentations Magazine
• National Center for Blind Youth in Science
• Molecular Literacy for biotechnology and nanotechnology careers