What kids doesn’t like experiments? Chemistry was an instant hit in our house.

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• Materials Useful for learning Chemisrty
• Unit 1 – Introduction to Chemisrty – States of the Matter, Elements
• Unit 2 – Liquids

Materials Useful for Learning Chemistry

Books: (we are great fans of some series that will follow. Great books that we fell in love with and don’t belong to any series are listed first)

• The Magic Schoolbus:
  • The Magic School Bus Gets Baked in a Cake: A Book About Kitchen Chemistry by Joanna Cole, Ted Enik, and Bruce Degan

• Rookie Read

• • Solids, Liquids, And Gases (Rookie Read-About Science) by Ginger Garrett
  • What Is Matter? (Rookie Read-About Science) by Don L. Curry
• Let’s Read and Find out Science Books:
  • What Is the World Made Of? All About Solids, Liquids, and Gases (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 2) by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

Web:

• http://www.chem4kids.com/
• Experiment with water: http://www.sciencewithme.com/experiment_detail.php?id=6

• Experiment with water shape: http://www.sciencewithme.com/experiment_detail.php?id=40

DVD:

• Magic School Bus – “Gets Baked in a Cake“

Toy list:

• Mind Blowing Science
  This kit includes all the materials necessary for making the experiments: plastic cups, measuring spoon, and the powdered chemicals. I guess the instruction booklet is written more for the adults, then for kids, but it covers some chemistry basics: e.g. what are solids, liquids, gases and what happens to them, how to identify them. I found it wonderful that we are not only mixing things up, but I can explain how things work and why. I was a bit disappointed, when they started jumping from very simple explanations to more serious descriptions – basis combine with acids… wait! I understand, that this is not a chemistry textbook, but you were so good describing the basics a second ago, and here you are jumping to things that I have no clue, how to explain… Since we approach these experiments as a learning opportunity, we had to look many things up. Nevertheless, this kit became one of my son’s favorites – the experiments are irresistible. I guess for the older kids, it is even more fun, since they don’t need mom to hang over the shoulder with explanations.
• Chemistry Science Kit

PowerPoint Presentations:

• http://www.childandme.com/encyclopedic-knowledge-chemistry/
• The Classical Mommy presentations

Units

Unit 1: Introduction to Chemistry.

Matter.  Introduction to Solids, liquids and gases.  Atoms and Elements.  We used WorldWideMontessori class by Karen, Physical Science album for creating 3 states of the matter trays.  One note: there are more states of the matter, then the traditionally covered solids, liquids and gases.  I told my kid about the rest, though we couldn’t actually experiment with it.  Well, we can’t really go to Saturn, but learning about it is still lots of fun.

a.       Books:

• Change It!: Solids, Liquids, Gases and You (Pri… by Adrienne Mason
• Rookie Read
  • Solids, Liquids, And Gases (Rookie Read-About Science) by Ginger Garrett
  • What Is Matter? (Rookie Read-About Science) by Don L. Curry
• Let’s Read and Find out Science Books:
  • What Is the World Made Of? All About Solids, Liquids, and Gases (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 2)by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

b.      DVD:  ?

c.       Toys:

• Mind Blowing Science

d.      PPT:

• ChildAndMe: Chemistry 1, 2, 3 by A.P.P.

e.       Web: ?

f.       Hands On Experiments:

• Get an ice cube – solid state; melt it – liquid; heat it in a kettle and watch it evaporate – gas.