Chemistry, made learnable
Study guides for the class everyone says is hard.
Guides and explainers for students and the parents helping them: how to memorize the periodic table, why you blank on tests even when you studied, and how to walk into chemistry with a head start.
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This Fall, Your Kid Could Walk Into Chemistry Already Knowing Every Element
The best head start for high-school chemistry: learn the periodic table before class. Ten minutes a day of summer games, and your kid walks in fluent.
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Chemistry Apps for Teachers: Free the Class Time for the Chemistry You Love
A mastery-gated game ladder handles chemistry fluency drills so class time can go to reasoning and phenomena. Free full access for chemistry teachers.
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The Gap You Can't See: Mastery-Based Learning and Why Your Kid Has Chemistry Holes
A class moves at one pace, but every kid is missing different pieces. Here's what mastery-based learning is and how it finds each gap automatically.
Explainer · 7 min read →
What Happened to the Collisions Chemistry Game
Collisions, the free chemistry game from PlayMada, wound down in 2022. What happened, whether you can still use it, and how the free chemistry tools compare.
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Free Chemistry Printables for Teachers
Free, CC-licensed chemistry printables: periodic tables in Letter, A4, and 11×17, a blank worksheet, a wall poster, 118 element posters, and flashcards.
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Chemistry and Fireworks: What Makes Every Color in the Sky
Fireworks are flame tests at full scale: strontium burns red, barium green, copper blue. The chemistry of firework colors, and the chemicals we retired.
Explainer · 8 min read →
The Best Interactive Periodic Table for Learning Chemistry
Most interactive periodic tables are built to look elements up. The best one for learning them makes you recall them, with games and spaced repetition.
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What Every Element Looks Like (and Where You’ll See It)
Most elements are silvery metal, but bromine is a liquid, cesium is gold, gallium melts in your hand, and bismuth grows rainbow crystals. A visual tour.
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Master the Periodic Table This Summer and Earn Money Doing It
The Element Mastery Prize runs June 12–Sept 15. Master all 118 elements and earn money: at least $25 for every kid who finishes, $250 for the fastest.
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The Mole, Explained With a Carton of Eggs
A mole is the chemist’s counting word, like a dozen, but it says nothing about weight. The egg analogy that makes molar mass click, plus a free poster.
Explainer · 4 min read →
How to Pass the Chemistry Regents (2026 Study Plan)
Make the foundation automatic, practice on real past exams, and master the Reference Tables: a Chemistry Regents study plan for June, August, or next year.
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Is High School Chemistry Hard? Why It Feels That Way
Chemistry is harder than what comes before it, but the difficulty is specific and fixable: the course speaks three languages at once. What makes it easier.
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Anki for High School Chemistry: Powerful Flashcards, One Big Catch
Anki is the best flashcard engine there is, and solo, blank, and dry, which loses a lot of high schoolers. Where it fits, and the game-based complement.
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How to Memorize the Periodic Table Fast (and Actually Remember It)
Cramming the table is gone by Monday. The way that sticks: learn symbol-to-name for the core elements with short daily games, mnemonics as backup.
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Looking for a Quizlet Alternative for Chemistry? The Best One Isn't a Flashcard App
Quizlet is fine for quick vocab, but it is solo and mostly multiple choice. To make the periodic table actually stick, try learning it by playing games.
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Periodic Table Games: The Fun Way to Actually Learn the Elements
Learn the periodic table by playing games where you cannot take a turn until you answer right, solo vs the AI or a friend, the table filling in as you go.
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Study Chemistry With Friends Without It Turning Into Goofing Off
Group study usually means one person explaining while everyone zones out. Head-to-head chemistry games fix that: both must answer right to move.
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Why You Blank on Chemistry Tests (and the Study Method That Fixes It)
Understanding chemistry in class but freezing on the test means you studied the comfortable way. The fix is active recall across days, as a game.
Guide · 4 min read →
Your Teen Isn't Bad at Chemistry: How to Help When They're Struggling
A teen failing chemistry is usually just weeks behind on the basics. Short daily games rebuild the foundation, and you need no chemistry to help.
Guide · 5 min read →