What if you could teach high school chemistry curriculum better through illustrations?

You always wanted your chemistry classroom to be like Mrs. Frizzle’s, but between state standards, lack of planning time, committees, and eating lunch at your desk, you feel more like the teacher on Charlie Brown. 

Let's change that.

You know that topic? The one you rush through hoping high school chemistry students won’t notice how much you hate it too? It doesn’t have to be misery. With a few tweaks and teaching ideas, you could master it in a way that lights up students in your classroom.

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Teaching chemistry is hard. Nevermind your students paying attention when provided chemistry curriculum materials are boring and complicated. Which is why these worksheets are fun and engaging. There are traditional style chemistry worksheets in the store. But there are also creative worksheets like doodle notes and color coding worksheets. There are also worksheets that illustrate step by step processes that your school’s McBoring Hill textbook just can’t match.

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Make your chemistry curriculum memorable.

High school chemistry begins with color coding. Your students mix up cations and anions, right? Or protons and electrons? This will change that.

Have students color code anions blue. Why?

Blue is naturally associated with negative, sad things. So anions, electrons, and failing grades get color coded blue. You can see the illustration to the right here that takes that idea over the top. It’s a sad, moldy, crying, phosphorus, anion onion. Why? It’s gained 3 electrons, so it’s negative. And this illustration is 45 times more effective than LEO says GER.

What about cations? Color code cations yellow. Why?

Because yellow is associated with happiness, sunshine, and positivity. The cation to the left is a happy little Fe cat who has lost 3 yarn electrons.

Why blue and yellow?

Blue and yellow make green. Cations and anions combine to make neutrally charged molecules. Protons and electrons cancel each others charges out. Neutrons are left in the middle neutral and green.

How does this help throughout the year?

It makes writing chemical formulas easier for students. When learning, students will try to put the anion first. So after students learn the color coding method they’ll notice that cations almost always come first (NaCl). So they’ll write them the same way.

You can then build on that concept by explaining electronegativity, etc. Color coding provides a simple and easy to follow foundation for your students to build big concepts on.

Want to learn more how to teach more than you ever thought possible using color and the periodic table?