20 Fifteen Minute Programs
Grade(s): Jr./Sr. High
Curriculum: Science; Social Science

THE WORLD OF CHEMISTRY helps students visualize abstract chemical concepts by affording them an opportunity-to observe experiments and analysis which would be too difficult or dangerous to recreate in a classroom setting. Along with presenting concepts from a historical perspective, programs focus on issues currently in the news. For example, the program "Water" provides a graphic view of water's properties, as well as real world examples such as artificial snow, the development of water-soluble polymers, and the purification of drinking water. "The Atmosphere" highlights some of our environmental concerns about the contaminants being added to the atmosphere, the greenhouse effect, the hole in the ozone layer, and the commercial use of CFC's.

Program Titles:

1. Color
2. Measurement
3. States of Matter
4. The Mole
5. The Atom
6. The Periodic Table
7. Bonding
8. Organic Chemistry
9. Molecular Fingerprints
10. Water
11. The Atmosphere
12. The Driving Forces
13. Kinetics
14. Catalysts
15. The Proton in Chemistry
16. Chemistry of the Earth
17. Oxidation-Reduction
18. Metal
19. Polymers
20. Biochemistry