This project text is a supplement to the study of chemistry. Three in-depth projects will keep the student busy throughout the year setting up experiments, making measurements and collecting data, making calculations and graphs, writing formal research reports and giving oral presentations. The projects are not expensive, but they are technically advanced. The chemicals are household commodities with very low hazard or toxicity, yet the chemistry is very challenging. These are projects, not simple experiments. Each project is portrayed as an industrial challenge. The student is a...

A fully illustrated, bound book describing in a step-by-step fashion how to take apart discarded appliances in order to see how they work. It is an excellent opportunity for fathers to work with their sons (or daughters) for both of them to learn the use of tools, to discover how things work, how they are engineered, how they are controlled, etc. This is a primer for inspiring your children to become scientists and engineers. It is filled with descriptions and explanations about how various parts are manufactured and the technology behind them. All you need is an assortment of tools and old...

How can home school compete with the expensive laboratories of the public school science classroom? Actually, in many respects, we can do a better job. And we can do it with very little expense. In this study you will use your home for a study of how you use energy. This is not just an observation study; this is a study of taking measurements, applying physics, making calculation, learning how to use spreadsheets for making calculations and graphs, writing a scientific report and giving a technical presentation. In many regards, this study far exceeds what is offered in most public high...