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Gearticks February Challenge: Creative Chemistry!
Take a deeper dive into this month’s STEMtastic Challenge and Chemistry by checking out these books related to the topic. Click on the title to bring you to our online catalog! Find out more about Gearticks and their monthly STEMtastic challenges HERE.
Chemistry Activities & Experiments
Chemistry: getting a big reaction, created by Basher; written by Dan Green
Mason jar science: 40 slimy, squishy, super-cool experiments by Jonathan Adolph
Bill Nye’s great big world of science by Bill Nye and Gregory Mone
Chemistry you can chomp by Jessie Alkire
Step-by-step science experiments in chemistry by Janice VanCleave
Experimenting with chemistry by John Farndon
Just add water: science projects you can sink, squirt, splash, sail from the editors of The New Book of Popular Science
Electricity and magnetism science fair projects: using batteries, balloons, and other hair-raising stuff by Robert Gardner
How do molecules stay together: a book about chemistry written by Madeline J. Hayes ; illustrated by Srimalie Bassani
Electricity and magnetism science fair projects, revised and expanded using the scientific method by Robert Gardner
Chemistry projects with a laboratory you can build by Robert Gardner
Crystal & gem by Dr. R.F. Symes
Maker lab: 28 super cool projects: build, invent, create, discover by Jack Challoner
Kitchen science written by Shar Levine & Leslie Johnstone ; illustrated by Dave Garbot ; photography by Michael Hnatov
The Elements
Elements by Adrian Dingle
Exploring the elements: a complete guide to the periodic table by Isabel Thomas
Lift-the-flap periodic table written by Alice James ; illustrated by Shaw Nielsen ;
Iodine by Leon Gray
Gold by Sarah Angliss
Arsenic by Chris Cooper
Copper by Richard Beatty
Chemical world: science in our daily lives by Rowena Rae
Lives of Chemists and more!
Who was Marie Curie? by Megan Stine
Perkin’s perfect purple: how a boy created color with chemistry by Tami Lewis Brown and Debbie Loren Dunn
Mario and the hole in the sky: how a chemist saved our planet by Elizabeth Rusch
The diamond and the boy: the rock cycle of graphite & the life of H. Tracy Hall by Hannah Holt
A really short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson
Marie Curie for kids: her life and scientific discoveries, with 21 activities and experiments by Amy M. O’Quinn
Tell me why. Volume 1, Science PLAYAWAY VIDEO | [2011], c2010
