The Chemistry Calendar is a joint project between Molecular Frontiers, Swedish universities Chalmers and University of Gothenburg, and science center Universeum, in celebration of the International Year of Chemistry 2011. Twelve original and inspiring videos, one for each month of the year, show how chemistry plays an important role in our lives. The topics of the monthly videos follow the themes recommended by the Swedish Chemical Society.

For each of the videos, there is downloadable teaching material, with facts and classroom experiments that can be used together with the video to make a fun lesson plan!

NEW! Right now we are producing twelve more videos, where Jonas and Louise demonstrate some of the experiments that appear in the teaching material.

January: Art and culture

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Download teaching material (Pdf, A4 format, 737 kB)

Updated April 14, 2011

Watch an video showing the experiment "Indigo"

February: Fashion

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Updated April 14, 2011

Watch a video showing the experiment "Growing Crystals"

March: Climate and energy

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Download teaching material (Pdf, A4 format, 562 kB)

Updated April 14, 2011

April: Industry

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Download teaching material (Pdf, A4 format, 1.5 MB)

Updated April 3, 2012

May: Love

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Teaching material will appear here eventually!

June: Water and air

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Teaching material will appear here eventually!

July: Sustainability

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Teaching material will appear here eventually!

August: Sports

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Teaching material will appear here eventually!

Watch a video showing the experiment "Heat and Cold Packs"

September: Communication

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Teaching material will appear here eventually!

Watch a video showing the experiment "Chemical Light"

October: Health

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Teaching material will appear here eventually!

Watch a video showing the experiment "Making Soap"

November: Food

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Teaching material will appear here eventually!

Watch a video showing the experiment "Making Soap"

December: History of Chemistry and Alfred Nobel

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Teaching material will appear here eventually!