UniServe Science Chemistry Table of Contents

Software for use in the Chemistry Syllabus

Preliminary Course HSC Course Options
8.2   The Chemical Earth 9.2   The Identification and Production of Materials 9.5   Industrial Chemistry
8.3   Metals 9.3   The Acidic Environment 9.6   Shipwrecks and Salvage
8.4   Water 9.4   Chemical Monitoring and Management 9.7   The Biochemistry of Movement
8.5   Energy   9.8   The Chemistry of Art
Chemistry visualisation software General chemistry software 9.9   Forensic Chemistry

Metals

Balancing and Interpreting Chemical Equations
A tutorial covering the balancing of molecular and ionic equations and the interpretation of equations.

Macintosh and Windows
Available from Video Education Australasia

Periodic table
A computerised periodic table containing 112 elements, with over 800 isotopes and 500 radioactive decay trees.

Windows only
Program details from http://www.softseek.com/Education_and_Science/Science_and_Engineering/Review_15332_index.html
or http://www.smisoftware.com/Html/PeriodicTable/ProductInformation.htm
Download from http://softseek.zdnet.com/Education_and_Science/Science_and_Engineering/D_15332_index.html

Discovering Science Topics in Physics and Chemistry
Topics on this CD-ROM: Chemical periodicity; Surveying the Periodic Table; Chemical periodicity and electron structure; and Balancing equations.

Windows only
Further details from The Open University
Available from

Educational Media Australia
122/214 Park St
South Melbourne Vic 3205
Tel: 03 9699 7144

Elemental Exploring the Australian Minerals Industry
produced by the Mineral Council on Australia and Board of Studies NSW, this series of three CD-ROMs cover many aspects of minerals and metals including how are minerals mined, extracted, processed and refined?

Macintosh or Windows
Available from Board of Studies NSW
Sales Clerk
Board of Studies
GPO Box 5300 SYDNEY 2001
[Back to top of page ]

Water

Molecular World of Reactions in Water (VisChem)
VisChem is an Australian project which produces mulitmedia resources illustrating the three levels of chemistry - laboratory, molecular and symbolic.

Macintosh and Windows
Available from Video Education Australasia

[Back to top of page ]

Chemical Monitoring and Management

Exploring the Nardoo
This simulation on CD-ROM allows you to investigate the human impact on four ecosystems along an inland Australian river. Take readings of turbidity, acidity, dissolved oxygen and chemical present.

Macintosh or Windows
Further details available from http://www.immll.uow.edu.au/IMMLL/Nardoo/nardoo.htm

Haber Process - Advanced
This simulation on CD-ROM allows you to examine the cyclic nature of the Haber process, equilibrium reaction in ammonia production, effects of different catalysts and effects of temperature and pressure.

Windows only
Further details available from Newbyte Educational Software

[Back to top of page ]

Biochemistry of Movement

Biochemistry - A Metabolic Challenge
This CD-ROM is produced by Monash University and contains two self-paced exercises, The Great Metabolic Race and The After Race Banquet. They are complemented by a set of interactive tutorials covering basic principles of metabolism.

Windows only
Further details available from http://www.med.monash.edu.au/biochem/teaching/resources/interactive/

[Back to top of page ]
Chemistry Visualisation Software and Plug-ins

RasMol
RasMol is an excellent molecular modelling program intended for the visualisation of proteins, nucleic acids and small molecules.

Macintosh or Windows
Further details available from http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/
CHIME
Chime is a browser plug-in that allows scientists to view chemical information directly on an html page.
Macintosh or Windows
Further details available from http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/
[Back to top of page ]
General chemistry software

GCSE CHEMISTRY CD SET
includes extensive teaching materials, interactive exercises, trial tests and an interactive laboratory. There are three volumes in the set: Classifying Materials; Changing Materials; and Patterns of Behaviour.

Windows Only
Further details including sample screens available at Aircom Education

Crocodile Chemistry
an on-screen chemistry laboratory which allows the simulation of experiments in the following subject areas: solutions and solubility, acids and bases, metals, reaction rates, separating mixtures, periodic table, non-metals and their compounds.

Windows Only
Download a free trial version from Crocodile Clips Ltd.
For further information contact
Kaye Placing

© 1997 - 2008 UniServe Connections

Page Maintained By: BioSciCH@mail.usyd.edu.au
Last Update: Monday, 09-Aug-2004 11:47:01 EST
URL: http://science.uniserve.edu.au/school/curric/stage6/chem/chemsw.html