5 Chemistry Coloring Worksheets You Can Actually Learn From
Do your students think chemistry is hard and impossible to learn? Do you feel like you need to become a dancing pipette to convince students that chemistry is fun? That is why I created a line of worksheets called "Color & Learn."
Foundational chemistry topics are simplified through color coding. Are your students struggling with cations and anions? Then check out this worksheet that uses yellow to color code cations and blue to color code anions. Are your students struggling with Lewis dot diagrams? Get them started counting the right way with this Color and Learn worksheet. Do your students not understand ionic and covalent? Through this Color and Learn worksheet they will color code metals gray, nonmetals red, polyatomic ions blue because they behave the same as anions.
Each color and learn worksheet is designed to address a deeper understanding issue, while students will enjoy learning through color.
Want to see how they work?
#1 Color and Learn: Intro to Cations and Anions
Students understand the idea of cations and anions right away. But, somehow, the idea seeps out of their brains while they sleep and they've completely forgotten where we look to figure out where cations and anions are. (Hint: Is the element on the right or left side of the periodic table?)
Who doesn't like easy to grade homework?
#2 Color and Learn: Intro to Ionic and Covalent Compounds
This worksheet is very similar to the last one as far as the easy grading and that students understand it quickly and then forget.
Students look at each element on the page and decide if it is a metal, nonmetal, or metalloid. Then, they color the worksheet. The instructions let them know that if a compound is multicolored it is ionic and if it is red it is covalent.
#3 Color and Learn: Balancing Chemical Equations
I have a whole blog post on this one that you can check out here. The short story is that students tend to confuse subscripts and coefficients. So, I started drawing everything out on the board in different colors. That helped, but they really understood balancing chemical equations well when I drew everything out AND had them start this worksheet in class and finish it for homework.
Pssst! There is a free version if you'd like to try out the one page version instead of the 3 page version.
#4 Color and Learn: Color By Solubility
This is one of the most unique solubility worksheets you can find. It is a picture with a different chemical compound in each section. Students color soluble compounds one color, insoluble compounds another color, and compounds that are ALWAYS soluble another color. Students love this worksheet because it is a fun way to review solubility rules. It even comes with a solubility rules sheet, but you are more than welcome to use your own!
#5 Color and Learn: Quantum Numbers Made Simple
When we teach this section we use a lot of words that mean nothing to your students. Orbital. Shell. Subshell. To students the topic can quickly become overwhelming.
The first page shows them what orbitals are and has students color code them. The second page builds on the orbital concept by showing students the difference in orbitals, shells, and subshells. It has a whole electron diagram drawn out and then students color or label them. Teachers rave about how this changes their students whole outlook on this topic.
These can be purchased separately by clicking on the each photo, or you can purchase all 5 worksheets(8 pages+8pages of keys+1 page teaching instructions + 1 differentiated worksheet) at my TpT store CoScine.