Teaching science at home isn't impossible. A little creative and adventurous spirit will help any parent help their student through even the scariest of science classes and labs. Remember, science is playing around with things to find out what happens.

1. Playing around with stuff
to find out what happens

2. What if?
How do I fix this?
What is the solution?
How can I prove?
Is it true?

3.  Talk to children about safety
 An emergency plan
 Don’t eat or drink while experimenting
 Label on-going projects
 Keep science equipment in a labeled container
 Keep first-aid & safety equipment with in easy reach
 Use Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)

4. BORAX
Section 9 - Physical & Chemical Prop
Section 1 - Product and Company Identification
Section 2 - Composition/Information on Ingredients Section 10 - Stability & Reactivity Da
Section 3 - Hazards Identification Including Emergency Overview
Section 11 - Toxicological Information
Section 12 - Ecological Information
Section 4 - First Aid Measures
Section 13 - Disposal Considerations
Section 5 - Fire Fighting Measures
Section 14 - MSDS Transport Inform
Section 6 - Accidental Release Measures
Section 15 - Regulatory Information
Section 7 - Handling and Storage
Section 8 - Exposure Controls & Personal Protection
Section 16 - Other Information

5. Section 2 - Composition/Information on Ingredients
BORAX
Ingredient Name: SODIUM TETRABORATE,
DECAHYDRATE
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EPA Reporting Quantity:
DOT Reporting Quantity:
Ozone Depleting Chemical: N

6.  Talk to children about safety
 An emergency plan
 Don’t eat or drink while experimenting
 Label on-going projects
 Keep science equipment in a labeled container
 Keep first-aid & safety equipment with in easy
reach
 Use Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
 http://msds.ehs.cornell.edu
 Supervise all labs

7. … the study of God’s creation
 What do you need?
 Pond
 Critters
 Microscope
 Dissection materials
 What can you do?
 Grow things
Plants, molds, animals
 Examine things
 Cells, pond water, before & after
 Observe things
Plants, weather, animals

8. … The study of God’s order
 What do you need?
 Fire
 Glassware
 Chemicals
 What can you do?
 Mix a concoction
 Make models
 Test

9. … the study of God’s rules of science
 What do you need?
 Batteries & wire
 Magnets
 Tools
 Lights
 What can you do?
 Build something
 Skateboard ramps, speakers, toothpick bridge
 Make light, electricity, or sound
 An electric motor
 Take things apart

10.  Follow a curriculum
Follow an encyclopedia outline or scope & sequence
 Develop your own based on student’s interest
Start with lab book

11.  Follow a curriculum
Begin at the index
What have you already done?
What’s important for future study?
What’s interesting?
 Follow an encyclopedia outline or scope & sequence
 Develop your own based on student’s interest
 Start with lab book

13.  Follow a curriculum
Begin at the index
What have you already done?
What’s important for future study?
What’s interesting?
 Follow an encyclopedia outline or scope & sequence
 Develop your own based on student’s interest
 Start with lab book

14. Related Information: Chemistry
Links to related World Book articles, study questions, and additional resources
Encyclopedia articles
American chemists • German chemists Terms Other related articles
• Adams, Roger • Swedish chemists • Allotropy • Alchemy
• Agre, Peter • Swiss chemists • Alloy • Atom
• Altman, Sidney Branches of chemistry • Bond [chemical] • Centrifuge
• Baekeland, Leo H. • Analytical chemistry • Colloid •
• Berg, Paul • Biochemistry • Compound Chemical, biological, radiological war
• Bloch, Konrad E. • Electrochemistry • Crystal
• Cohen, Stanley • Femtochemistry • Density • Crime laboratory
(Analyzing the evidence)
• Conant, James Bryant • Geochemistry • Electromotive series
• Drug
• Corey, Elias James • Inorganic chemistry • Emulsion (How drugs are produced and sold)
• Cram, Donald James • Organic chemistry • Halogen
• Curl, Robert Floyd, Jr. • Photochemistry • Ion • Electron
British chemists • Physical chemistry Processes and tests • Energy
• Faraday, Michael • Radiochemistry • • Fluid
• Franklin, Rosalind E. Groups of compounds Absorption and adsorption • Flux
• Graham, Thomas • Acid • Calcination • Freezing point
• Harden, Sir Arthur • Alcohol • Catalysis • Gas
• Hodgkin, Dorothy C. • Alkali • Chemical reaction • Geochemistry
• Klug, Sir Aaron • Alkaloid • Chromatography • Heat (Sources of heat)
• French chemists • Amino acid • Combustion • Liquid air
• Berthelot, Marcellin • Anhydride • Corrosion • Liquid crystal
• Chardonnet, Hilaire • Base • Decomposition • Mass
• Courtois, Bernard • Bromide • Diffusion • Matter
• Curie, Marie S. • Carbide • Distillation • Metal
• Neutron

15. Questions
• What early chemical practice involved trying to turn lead and other metals into gold?
• Who proposed that the bond between atoms in a molecule consists of a pair of shared electrons?
• What did the phlogiston theory have in common with all other good chemical theories?
• Who began the use of letters as symbols for chemical elements?
• What are some environmental and safety problems faced by the chemical industry?
• What was the first chemical reaction that human beings learned to produce and control?
• Whose combustion theory replaced the phlogiston theory?
• Why did the chemical industry in several countries expand greatly during World Wars I and II?
• Who was the first chemist to make an organic molecule from inorganic substances?
• How do physical changes and chemical changes differ?
Books to read
• Kotz, Jack C. Chemistry & Chemical Reactivity. 5th ed. Brooks/Cole, 2002.
• Lide, David R. CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 84th ed. CRC Pr., 2003.
• Masterton, William L., and Hurley, C. N. Chemistry. 5th ed. Brooks/Cole, 2003.
• McMurry, John, and Fay, R. C. Chemistry. 4th ed. Prentice Hall, 2004.
• Myers, Richard. The Basics of Chemistry. Greenwood, 2003.
• Parker, Sybil P., ed. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Chemistry. 2nd ed. McGraw, 2003.
http://www.worldbook.com/wb/RelatedInfo?id=ar108700&st=chemistry&mt=cs

16. Boiling Point
Boiling Point, temperature at which the vapor pressure of a liquid slightly
exceeds the pressure of the atmosphere above the liquid. At temperatures
below the boiling point (b.p.), evaporation takes place only from the surface of
the liquid; during boiling, vapor forms within the body of the liquid; and as
the vapor bubbles rise through the liquid, they cause the turbulence and
seething associated with boiling. If the liquid is a single substance or an
azeotropic solution (a mixture that has a constant b.p.), it will continue to boil as
heat is added without any rise in temperature; that is, boiling occurs at constant
temperature regardless of the amount of heat applied to the liquid.
When the pressure on a liquid is increased, the b.p. goes up. Water at 1
atmosphere pressure (760 torr, or about 14.7 lb/sq in) boils at 100° C (212° F),
but when the pressure is 218 atmospheres (165,000 torr, or 3200 lb/sq in), the
b.p. reaches its maximum, 374° C (705° F). Above this temperature (the critical
temperature of water), liquid water is identical to saturated steam. See
Pressure.
"Boiling Point," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2006
http://encarta.msn.com © 1997-2006 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

17. Science – 9th Grade Science – 11th Grade
* Earth's history * Matter and its behavior
* Earth science * Carbon and its compounds
* Ecology and environment * Formulas and chemical
* Weather and climate equations
* Air and air pressure * Acids, bases, salts
* Air masses and fronts * Atomic theory
* Water and its uses * Periodic law
* Erosion * Water and solutions
* Air and water pollution * Chemical bonding
* Heats and fuels * Molecular theory
* Electricity and electronics * Equilibrium and kinetics
* Solar and nuclear energy * Spontaneous reactions
* Nature and uses of light * Titrations
* Simple and complex * Ionization and ionic solutions
machines * Colloids, suspensoids, and
* Atomic structure emulsoids
* Chemistry of matter * Oxidation-reduction
* Molecular theory * Nonmetals
* Nature and use of chemicals * Metals and alloys
* Metals and plastics * Electrochemistry
* Space and astronomy * Energy: forms, chemical
* Space travel changes, and measurement
* Nature and causes of
disease

18.  Follow a curriculum
Begin at the index
What have you already done?
What’s important for future study?
What’s interesting?
 Follow an encyclopedia outline or scope & sequence
 Develop your own based on student’s interest
Ask questions
Why? How?
Look at resources
Scope & sequence, book index
Let your child explore
 Start with lab book

19.  Follow a curriculum
Begin at the index
What have you already done?
What’s important for future study?
What’s interesting?
 Follow an encyclopedia outline or scope & sequence
 Develop your own based on student’s interest
Ask questions
Why? How?
Look at resources
Scope & sequence, book index
Let your child explore
 Start with lab book
Look at the labs
Decide what you really want to do
Student may need to research information

20. Chemistry Lab Manual, A Beka, 1986

21. 1. State the problem
Who? What? Why? How?
3. Collect information
Research. Ask. Go
5. Develop a hypothesis
Take a guess
4. Design an experiment
Doing. Observing. Making. Building.
5. Draw a conclusion
What happened? Why?
The conclusion leads to the next question

22. Organic Gardening, December 1994

23. Mother Earth News #81, March/April 1983

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