How can you do an experiment?  With a smile on your face!  Here’s how: (Updated 2-9-16)

• Lab Safety:  Before you can do anything experimentally-oriented in a chemistry class, you need to learn how to keep from hurting yourself in the lab.  Spoiler alert:  It involves goggles.
• Lab equipment:  What’s all that stuff in the lab?  Find out here!
• Scientific method:  How do scientists make discoveries?  It depends.  How do chemistry classes tell you that scientists make discoveries?  With the scientific method.  Learn how it works here!
• How to win science fair:  Be the envy of your nerdy friends and win a trip to somewhere obscure by winning the science fair!  Or, if you’d rather just survive the whole experience, this will work for that, too.
• An introduction to chemistry:  The first chapter of the chemistry textbook (and textbook parody) that I never actually published.  Discusses the topics above, but is more in depth and funnier, too.

Supplemental videos:  These videos are all over at the amazing Crash Course YouTube channel.  I didn’t make these, though I wish I did.

• Crash Course Chemistry:  Lab Techniques and Safety – I’m a very big fan of safety, and this video really covers some of the important topics you don’t hear about in many chemistry courses.
• The times and troubles of the scientific method:  The scientific method isn’t perfect. Find out why.
• 3 chemistry experiments that changed the world: Believe it or not, we chemists have done some really cool stuff!