Tobin Science logoTobinScience
Webquest · High School Physical Science · SPS2 · SPS3

Chemistry Webquest

Bonding, Naming Compounds, Balancing Equations and Conservation of Mass

Work through the stops in order. Each button opens in a new tab: finish that stop, answer on your webquest sheet, then come back to this page for the next one.

Start with Stop 1 ↓For teachers ↓
Students

How it works

1. Get your sheet

Your teacher gives you the webquest sheet (paper or digital). Every answer goes on it.

2. Open each stop in order

Each stop opens in a new tab. Use the sliders and buttons on that page — your answers come from what you see.

3. Come back here

Close the tab, tick Done, and open the next stop. Finished early with a partner? Play the bonus.

The webquest

Stops

  1. Stop 1 · about 10 min · your sheet: page 2, questions 1–6

    Chemistry Unit Intro

    Read the hook, pick a big question, play two activities.

    Open Stop 1 Two identical white powdersBig questionsExplore activities
  2. Stop 2 · about 10 min · your sheet: page 3, questions 7–14

    Simple Science Videos: Bonding and Naming

    Watch three one-minute videos and fill in the blanks.

    Open Stop 2
  3. Stop 3 · about 10 min · your sheet: page 4, question 15

    Vocabulary

    Flip the Word Wall cards and define 15 words in your own words.

    Open Stop 3 Word Wall (unit intro)Chemistry vocabulary
  4. Stop 4 · about 14 min · your sheet: page 5, questions 16–25

    Chemistry Part A: Bonding and Ionic Formulas

    Bond atoms on screen, then run the criss-cross machine.

    Open Stop 4 Part 1: Ionic vs. covalentPart 2: Ionic formulas and names
  5. Stop 5 · about 12 min · your sheet: page 6, questions 26–32

    Chemistry Part B: Covalent Names and Properties

    Run the name machine, then melt and test in the property lab.

    Open Stop 5 Part 3: Covalent namesPart 4: Properties
  6. Stop 6 · about 14 min · your sheet: page 7, questions 33–40

    Chemistry Part C: Equations and Conservation of Mass, plus Two Videos

    Two videos, the sealed bag vs. open cup, the balance builder.

    Open Stop 6 Simple Science: SPS3 videosPart 5: Equations and conservation
  7. Stop 7 · about 12 min · your sheet: page 8, questions 41–44

    Chemistry Part D: Reaction Types, plus the Lab Bench Mass Mystery

    Five reaction types, a video, then the Lab Bench Mass Mystery.

    Open Stop 7 Part 6: Reaction typesSimple Science: Types of Chemical ReactionsMass Mystery: Conservation Lab (Lab Bench)
  8. Wrap-up · your sheet: page 8, questions 45–46

    Wrap-up: Solve the two white powders

    Go back to the two white powders at the top of the unit intro and explain, with what you learned, why salt and sugar look the same but behave so differently.

    Open the two white powders
  9. Bonus · for partners who are both finished

    Bonus: 1v1 HS Chemistry

    1. Only when you and a partner have both finished every stop.
    2. One computer, two players: Red uses the W A S D keys and Blue uses the arrow keys. It needs a keyboard, so it will not work on a phone.
    3. Press Enter the Arena, pick a game, and play to 3 wins.
    Open the 1v1 game
Teachers

For teachers

Post this link for your students

https://www.tobinscience.com/webquest-hs-chem.html

Students move through six free tobinscience.com resources in order: the Chemistry unit intro, six one-minute Simple Science videos (three at Stop 2, two at Stop 6, one at Stop 7), the unit vocabulary, the full Chemistry section (Parts 1–6: an electron-dot bonding scene, a charge-tower criss-cross machine that writes and names every ionic formula, a covalent name machine, a property lab with a temperature slider and a conductivity tester, a sealed-bag versus open-cup balance, a balance builder with an atom model and tally chart, a plan-and-carry-out investigation and the five reaction-type patterns), the Lab Bench Mass Mystery, and a 1v1 review game for early finishers. Every answer comes from what the page shows, matching SPS2a–c and SPS3a–b.

SPS2 · SPS3 · SPS2: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to explain how atoms bond to form stable compounds. SPS3: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to support the Law of Conservation of Matter.
Time: about 80–85 minutes (two 45-minute periods, or one block)

What students need

  • One Chromebook or computer per student (the 1v1 bonus needs a keyboard and two students on one computer)
  • Headphones are optional (the six videos are about one minute each)
  • No student accounts or sign-ins; nothing to install

Every stop at a glance

Good to know

  • The Formula Builder and Equation Balancer rounds, every endless-practice score, the mystery-substance data and the Lab Bench masses are randomized, so those answers vary. The simulation readouts (bonding results, criss-cross steps, machine names, melting points and bulb results, 25.0 / 22.8 g, balance-builder coefficients, investigation data, the reaction-type table) are fixed and match the key.
  • Stop 1 activities award electrons that are saved only on that device; students write their score on the sheet.
  • All six Simple Science videos are used: the SPS2 group at Stop 2, Conservation of Matter and Balancing Chemical Equations at Stop 6, and Types of Chemical Reactions at Stop 7 (it shows four patterns; the page adds combustion, and the sheet asks for it).
  • Naming follows the unit notes: no prefixes on ionic names, a Roman numeral only for Fe, Cu, Sn and Pb, no "mono" on a first element, monoxide / pentoxide / decoxide; criss-cross, then reduce; balance with coefficients only.
  • The 1v1 bonus is for pairs who have both finished. It is head-to-head review of the whole chemistry unit.
  • The page also has endless mixed practice, worked examples, real-life cards, myths, a 10-question bank and a reaction-type sort that the webquest does not visit; with the Counting Atoms, Balancing Chemical Equations and Naming Binary Compounds tools on the unit page, they make a good warm-up the next day.
  • Short on time? Stops 1–3 make a good first day and Stops 4–7 a second day.
  • The printable student webquest and its answer key come with the Word / PDF webquest download. This page holds no answers, so it is safe to post.