From magnesium to mummification: learning chemistry can be fun and easy with these 3 chemistry worksheet bundles

Chemistry is one of the fundamental subjects a child discovers at school. Learning about life’s basic building blocks is incredibly important — and can be a whole load of fun too.

Teaching kids about electrons and protons, solids, liquids and gases, and the basic elements that make up all life and matter in the universe not only blow their minds but also equips them with a useful understanding of how the world works.

Chemists have the power to change the world, and learning how things fit together at an atomic level can be both fascinating and exciting.

But what’s the best way to explain the magic of chemistry to children?

How can you plan lessons that are astonishing, engaging, and informative? Most importantly, how do you make sure that nothing gets blown up in the process?

To give you a headstart, we’re going to share some of our best chemistry worksheets for kids, to help you deliver the best and most productive chemistry lessons.

Chemistry worksheets – Periodic table

The periodic table is the go-to for all things chemistry. At first glance, it might look like just a list of the basic elements, but in truth, it sets the foundations for everything a child will ever need to know about chemistry and chemical reactions.

The periodic table displays every chemical element that’s been discovered. An element is a material that cannot be broken down further, so they’re literally the building blocks of much of life as we know it.

And the periodic table goes much further than just identifying existing elements. It also shows us how to create the compounds and materials that make up the world and to predict what other elements might exist. Only 94 of the elements shown on the table occur naturally, the other 28 were created in a laboratory! The periodic table helps you understand the properties of the elements, how they react, and what they can be used for.

It’s a lot to take in, isn’t it? And to think all that detail is sums up in one neat grid!

This 27-page worksheet bundle covers everything students need to know to understand the periodic table, from the fascinating history behind the discovery of various elements and how the table was put together, to how to tell the properties of an element based on its position. You can start a lesson by working through periodic table facts as a class, before setting students the individual task of “decoding the element” and arranging the table correctly.

Chemistry worksheets – Mummification

When children think about mummies and mummification, they probably don’t automatically make the connection to chemistry. Learning about mummification tends to conjure up images of Ancient Egypt, of Pharaohs, gods and pyramids — something more fitting to history class, no?

However, the process of mummification is actually a fascinating sequence of chemical reactions. Combining the history of the practice with the chemistry of what actually happens at a molecular level makes for a great, well-rounded lesson.

Whether you’re talking about burying bodies in sand to dehydrate them, stuffing them and covering them with salt, injecting them with cedar oil, or sterilizing them with alcohol, children won’t want to miss a minute.

The combination of history, grisly facts, and chemical reactions in these chemistry worksheets is a far more effective way of keeping kids engaged and interested in a lesson than typical rote learning.

The worksheets include fun games to get younger kids thinking, as well as facts, history, and chemical explanations for the various processes involved. They even go into detail about various spontaneous mummification occurrences that have happened over the years, as well as the macabre practice of self-mummification!

Chemistry worksheets – Matter and Energy

Everything in the universe is made up of matter and energy. The topic is so broad and all-encompassing that it can be daunting to teach. However, the vast scope of this subject also presents a wide variety of ways to engage your students.

These chemistry worksheets build on previous lessons — and your kids’ understanding of elements, atoms, and the periodic table — and continue to expand students’ knowledge. Covering everything from solids, liquids, and gases, to the flow of electrical current, they bring a blend of theoretical knowledge and practical application to help students contextualize what they’re seeing. 

Take your kids on a journey through the states of matter with quizzes and word jumbles. Explore fascinating anomalies like dark matter and encourage your class to use their imaginations to discover the next big thing.

Chemistry worksheets – Vaccines

A topic of timely relevance, children will be fascinated to learn that the first recorded “vaccination” attempt was by Buddhists in India in the 7th Century, when monks drank snake venom to try and build an immunity to the toxic bite.

Of course today we understand vaccinations to be related to viruses and diseases. And despite there being many different types of vaccination, they work in largely the same way.

This 23-page vaccination worksheet bundle presents the chemistry behind vaccines, with tasks such as “Myth or Fact” designed to test a student’s knowledge of how vaccinations work. There’s also an interesting ethical debate surrounding vaccines, and the work pack helps you navigate this with your class.

Time to hit the lab!

We hope that this run-through of some of the best chemistry worksheets available has been

useful and will help you develop lessons that are fun, educational, and exciting.

In addition to using our chemistry worksheets, remember that chemistry lessons should involve hands-on experience, practical application, and engaging experiments. So many of the basic principles of the subject can be best illustrated with processes that will grab kids’ attention.

Take advantage of that fact, and don’t be afraid to let them try things out (with careful supervision, of course!).