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The Story of Science Classroom Companion: Einstein Adds a New Dimension (PDF e-Book)

The Story of Science Classroom Companion is a boon for teachers who choose master storyteller Joy Hakim’s Einstein Adds a New Dimension as a primary or supplemental physics text. Hakim’s newest title in The Story of Science series brings to life the history of Albert Einstein and his fellow scientists as they lay the groundwork for concepts of particle physics and quantum mechanics. The Classroom Companion, which includes editions for both teachers and students, follows Hakim’s text chapter by chapter and provides teaching tips, lists of key vocabulary words, activities, writing prompts, additional online and print resources, and more. Free to NSTA members, this easily downloaded e-book will help classroom teachers and parents of homeschoolers use Hakim’s outstanding Einstein Adds a New Dimension to integrate science process with science literacy.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: A Boy With Something on His Mind



Chapter 2: Time on Replay



Chapter 3: Electrifying Thoughts and Magnetic Reasoning



Chapter 4: The M. and M.’s of Science



Chapter 5: Invisible Bits of Electricity



Chapter 6: Smaller than Atoms? Subatomic? Is This a Joke?



Chapter 7: Nobel Marie



Chapter 8: Mysterious Rays



Chapter 9: Making Waves



Chapter 10: Five Papers



Chapter 11: Seeing the (Photon) Light



Chapter 12: Molecules Move



Chapter 13: Getting the Picture Right



Chapter 14: Getting Atom



Chapter 15: Still Shooting Alpha Particles



Chapter 16: Bohr Taking Quantum Leaps



Chapter 17: An American Tracks Photons; A Frenchman Nails Matter



Chapter 18: What’s Uncertain? Everything, Says Heisenberg



Chapter 19: A Cat, Quarks, and Other Quantum Critters



Chapter 20: Smashing Atoms



Chapter 21: Chemistry, Charisma, and Peace



Chapter 22: Energy Equals Mass Times the Square of the Speed of Light or E=mc2





Chapter 23: On the Way to War (a List of Happenings)



Chapter 24: The Fission Vision



Chapter 25: Presidential Power



Chapter 26: Manhattan on a Mesa



Chapter 27: Quantum Electrodynamics? Surely You’re Joking



Chapter 28: Those Relatives: Galileo and Albert



Chapter 29: Relativity: It’s About Time



Chapter 30: An Event? To a Physicist It’s Not a Party



Chapter 31: Timely Dimensions



Chapter 32: A Man in a Red Hat



Chapter 33: The Paradox of the Twins



Chapter 34: Relative Gravity



Chapter 35: Warps in Spacetime



Chapter 36: Does It Change? Or Is It Changeless?



Chapter 37: Expanding Times



Chapter 38: An Expanding Universe



Chapter 39: A Luminous Indian



Chapter 40: Explosive? And How!



Chapter 41: Singular Black Holes



Chapter 42: Gravity Waves?



Chapter 43: A Singular BANG With a Background



Chapter 44: Inflation? This Chapter Is Not About Economics



Chapter 45: Entanglement?

Locality? Are We Talking Science?



Chapter 46: Super Stars?



Chapter 47: A Surprising Information-Age Universe



Chapter 48: Is Anyone Out There?



Chapter 49: This Is the Last Chapter, but It’s Not the End



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Type e-book (PDF)Pub Date 11/1/2008ISBN 978-1-93353-157-1Stock # PB227Xe

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