A Great Resource

This has been a great resource for our work with elementary teachers. Bill Robertson makes chemistry accessible, interesting and narrows the subject down to important concepts and ideas. Th... See More

This has been a great resource for our work with elementary teachers. Bill Robertson makes chemistry accessible, interesting and narrows the subject down to important concepts and ideas. The illustrations are great and the writing is entertaining and compelling.

Readable and informative

I have three other volumes in this series as well, and have found them all useful for planning homeschool science lessons in the middle school years. Like the other books in this series, it... See More

I have three other volumes in this series as well, and have found them all useful for planning homeschool science lessons in the middle school years. Like the other books in this series, it presents concepts in a thorough yet non-intimidating fashion. The physics books I needed for review, but I did take it in college. I haven't had chemistry since high school, and the lack of a bibliography or suggested books for further reading is more noticeable. I learned a lot from this book, but I could use pointers to further reading as well.

Simple and Helpful

Having taught middle school chemistry and intregrated chemistry for years, I was impressed how this little book clarified the chemical concepts of electronegativity,polarity, and ionic and c... See More

Having taught middle school chemistry and intregrated chemistry for years, I was impressed how this little book clarified the chemical concepts of electronegativity,polarity, and ionic and covalent bonding for me. Some of the examples were very simple- however, that is the purpose of the book. I'm anxious to see how other topics are approached in the next volume.