Why Chemistry Matters

This fascinating new series from Crabtree Publishing makes chemistry fun for young readers!  Using common examples from everyday life, Why Chemistry Matters makes complicated lessons enjoyable and easy to learn.  Full colour photographs and easy-to-follow text leads students through engrossing exercises and explanations.

Titles in this series are:  Acids and Bases — Atoms and Molecules — Elements and Compounds — Mixtures and Solutions — States of Matter.

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Mythbusters DVD series

Is it fact or fiction? Special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman take urban legends and put them to the scientific test. From surviving a plane crash to training a goldfish, the MythBusters team designs an experiment to prove whether it’s possible or another myth busted. The concepts presented in each program will have students looking at science in a whole new way.  We have the following 20 episodes: Animal Behavior, Bacteria, Botanical Growth, Buoyancy, Chemical Changes, Chemical Reactions, Circular Motion, Combustion, Electricity and Magnetism, Electricity, Energy Conservation, Force and Motion, Forces, Gravity, Inertia, Myths About Motion, Reflected Energy, Sound Energy, Water Displacement, and Work and Energy.

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