Notes

A resource-based approach to science with an integral web-site.



Heslop, Nigel : Geological changes (how and why the Earth changes)

Heslop, Nigel : Houston, we have a problem (the ill-fated Apollo 13)

Murphy, Jan : Cars of yesterday, today and tomorrow

Murphy, Jan : Chemicals for food- and bombs! (the work of Fritz Haber on fertilisers andand chlorine gas)

Murphy, Jan : Chewing gum - is it good for your teeth?

Murphy, Jan : Dyeing for a new look? (the chemistry of hair dyes)

Murphy, Jan : Under pressure (aerosols and the particle theory of gases)

Ratcliffe, Mary : Body piercing (a report on allergy to nickel in body jewellery)

Ratcliffe, Mary : Cars, cars and more cars - pollution, energy crisis, transport decisions

Ratcliffe, Mary : Chemicals can be good for you (chemicals in supermarket products)

Ratcliffe, Mary : Discovery of an element (Humphry Davy's discovery of potassium)

Robinson, Richard : Cycles: an introduction to the water and carbon cycles

Solomon, Joan : A cure for scurvy

Solomon, Joan : The beginning of plastics (the invention of Bakelite)

Solomon, Joan : The Californian gold rush

Solomon, Joan : Elements and medicines (the work of the Arabian chemists)

Solomon, Joan : Frogs' legs and batteries (cartoon story of Galvani and Volta)

Solomon, Joan : Is the Earth getting hotter? ( a debate on global warming)

Solomon, Joan : Priestley's air (experimental work on carbon dioxide)

Solomon, Joan : Strange glass in the desert (origins of some special glass)

Solomon, Joan : Weird metal (the chemistry of mercury; the work of ancient alchemists)

Solomon, Joan : What killed the Red Planet? (the evidence for life on Mars)