NSTA’s Take-Home Chemistry Provides 50 Low-Cost Labs to Extend Classroom Learning

ARLINGTON, Va.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--For high school science teachers, homeschoolers, science coordinators, and informal science educators, this collection of 50 inquiry-based labs provides hands-on ways for students to learn science at home—safely.

Students who conduct the labs in NSTA’s Take-Home Chemistry as supplements to classroom instruction will enhance higher-level thinking, improve process skills, and raise high-stakes test scores. Many of the exercises involve skills such as measuring, graphing, calculating, and extrapolating graphs and cover topics such as moles, chromatography, chemical reactions, and titration.

Each lab includes a student page, a teacher page, an objective, a purpose, a materials list, notes, and post-lab questions, making Take-Home Chemistry a useful tool for improving how student learning in chemistry.

About the Author

Michael Horton has taught chemistry, physics, and technology in Southern California for more than 10 years and has also been the science coordinator and AVID administrator at two county offices of education for six years.

You can browse sample pages of this new book free at the NSTA Science Store website at www.nsta.org/store.

For additional information or to purchase Take-Home Chemistry and other books from NSTA Press, visit the NSTA Science Store at www.nsta.org/store. To order by phone, call 800-277-5300 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET weekdays. The 244-page book is priced at $27.95 and discount-priced for NSTA members at $22.36 (Stock # PB240X2, ISBN # 978-1-936137-39-8).

The Arlington, Va.-based National Science Teachers Association is the largest professional organization in the world promoting excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning for all. NSTA's current membership includes more than 55,000 science teachers, science supervisors, administrators, scientists, business and industry representatives, and others involved in science education.

NSTA Pressproduces 20–25 new books each year. Focused on the PreK–college market and specifically aimed at teachers of science, NSTA Press titles offer a unique blend of accurate scientific content and sound teaching strategies.