Chemistry Accelerate (Grades 3-7)

This curiosity-building homeschool chemistry curriculum bundle of six Accelerate-level Science Unlocked kits will engage your student in hands-on homeschool chemistry learning for an entire school year. This full-year science chemistry curriculum includes:

• Full-colored student workbook
• Student assessments
• Supplies and equipment needed for experiments
• Real-world application

No prior teaching or science experience is needed! Teachers and parents, you will be well-equipped. Science Unlocked homeschool chemistry's detailed teacher guides will help guide you through assisting with hands-on learning experiences with:

• Context and answers to student questions
• Options for including children of different ages and abilities
• Step-by-step experiment instructions
• Lesson planning timeline

The Chemistry Accelerate (Grades 3-7) Science Unlocked bundle includes the following kits:

Unit 1: Energy Types and Transfers (2 Kits)

Warm and Bright

Exploring Thermal Energy

Explore thermal energy including how it works at the particle level by exploding balloons and creating a drink insulator.

Energy to Burn

Connections Between Chemical and Thermal Energy

Explore the changes involved in storing and releasing energy from food. Build a calorimeter and experiment with your food!

Unit 2: Chemical Structures and Reactions (4 Kits)

Fizz, Foam, and Fire

An Introduction to Chemical Reactions

Perform chemical reactions to identify chemical change and determine whether reactions are endothermic or exothermic.

Contain Your Excitement

Changes in Matter and Mass

Experiment to understand matter at a particle level and learn how mass is conserved when matter changes during physical and chemical change.

Water: Weird and Wonderful

Molecular Structure and Properties

Discover all that water can do, and find out how molecular structure determines its unique properties.

Mega Molecules

Polymers in Biology and Beyond

Explore the unique world of polymers by creating polymers and testing foods for protein, carbohydrate and lipid macromolecule.

More information about the learning objectives in each kit can be found in the contents section below. This NAPPA award winning homeschool chemistry curriculum is based on NGSS science standards for 3rd through 7th grade science education. Read below in the contents section to learn more about the standards met in each kit. 

More Information

• Fizz, Foam, Fire Safety Information (SDS)
• Contain Your Excitement Safety Information (SDS)
• Water: Weird and Wonderful Safety Information (SDS)
• Mega Molecules Safety Information (SDS)

This Accelerate level Science Unlocked bundle includes:

• Warm and Bright
• Energy to Burn
• Fizz, Foam, Fire
• Contain Your Excitement
• Water: Weird and Wonderful
• Mega Molecules

• Warm and Bright
  • Learning outcome: Keeping it all inside, or ready to let it out?
  • NGSS science standards alignment
  • MS-PS1-4: Develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed.
  • MS-PS3-3: Apply scientific principles to design, construct, and test a device that either minimizes or maximizes thermal energy transfer.
  • MS-PS3-4: Plan an investigation to determine the relationships among the energy transferred, the type of matter, the mass, and the change in the average kinetic energy of the particles as measured by the temperature of the sample.
• Energy to Burn
  • Learning outcome: Explore the changes involved in storing and releasing energy from food. Build a calorimeter and experiment with your food!
  • NGSS science standards alignment
  • MS-LS1-7: Develop a model to describe how food is rearranged through chemical reactions forming new molecules that support growth and/or release energy as this matter moves through an organism.
  • MS-PS1-1: Develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures.
  • MS-PS1-6: Undertake a design project to construct, test, and modify a device that either releases or absorbs thermal energy by chemical processes.
• Fizz, Foam, Fire
  • Learning outcome: Perform chemical reactions to find evidence for chemical change, use clues to describe reactants and products, and determine whether reactions are endothermic or exothermic.
  • NGSS science standards alignment
  • 5-PS1-4: Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances.
  • MS-PS1-2: Analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred.
  • MS-PS1-6: Undertake a design project to construct, test, and modify a device that either releases or absorbs thermal energy by chemical processes.
• Contain Your Excitement
  • Learning outcome: Use hands-on experiments to understand matter at a particle level and learn how mass is conserved when matter changes during physical and chemical change.
  • NGSS science standards alignment
  • 5-PS1-2: Measure and graph quantities to provide evidence that regardless of the type of change that occurs when heating, cooling, or mixing substances, the total weight of matter is conserved.
  • 5-PS1-4: Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances.
  • MS-PS1-2: Analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred.
  • MS-PS1-5: Develop and use a model to describe how the total number of atoms does not change in a chemical reaction and thus mass is conserved.
• Water: Weird and Wonderful
• Learning outcome: Discover what water can do, and find out how molecular structure determines its unique properties.
• NGSS science standards alignment
• 5-PS1-1: Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.
• 5-PS1-3: Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.
• MS-PS1-1: Develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures.
• Mega Molecules
  • Learning outcome: Proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids, oh my! Master the macromolecules required to survive.
• NGSS science standards alignment
• MS-LS1-7: Develop a model to describe how food is rearranged through chemical reactions forming new molecules that support growth and/or release energy as this matter moves through an organism.
• MS-PS1-2: Analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred.
• MS-PS1-3: Gather and make sense of information to describe that synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society.