My First Book About Chemistry

by Wynne, Patricia J.; Silver, Donald M.

• ISBN13: 9780486837581
• ISBN10: 0486837580
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2020-01-15
• Publisher: Dover Pubns

Summary

Chemistry is all about what's happening in the air, under the sea and ground, and inside every living thing — including you! With 46 pages of fun-to-color illustrations and fact-filled captions, children ages 8 to 12 can explore atoms and molecules, why carbon is so important, how our bodies break down food, what is causing global warming, and much more.

Author Biography

An accomplished science and nature illustrator, Patricia J. Wynne is the recipient of the 2008 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor and has won awards from Parenting magazine, the John Burroughs Association, and the National Science Teachers Association. Patricia's artwork has appeared in galleries, magazines, newspapers, and more than 100 books for both children and adults. She is the illustrator of numerous successful Dover titles on science and nature, including My First Book About Outer Space, My First Book About the Body, My First Book About Weather, My First Book About the Brain, My First Book About Physics, and other books.
Trained as a research scientist, Donald M. Silver has written more than 80 books for students of all ages and for teachers. His One Small Square series takes a close-up look at plants and animals where they live. He has won numerous awards including the Children’s Science Writing Award in Physics and Astronomy from the American Institute of Physicists. He lives in New York City where he has worked with Patricia J. Wynne since 1981 and with whom he has co-authored numerous successful Dover titles on science and nature, including My First Book About Outer Space, My First Book About the Body, My First Book About the Brain, My First Book About Physics, and other books.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS
 1. The Story of Atoms
 2. What's in an Atom?
 3. Kinds of Atoms
 4. Making Water
 5.It's All Matter
 6. Metals, Metals, and More Metals
 7. Nonmetals
 8. What a Gas!
 9. Where the Action Is
10. Give and Take
11. Nothing Else is Like Water
12. Carbon: The Great Sharer
13. Up in the Air
14. Inside a Thunderstorm
15. What Minerals Are Made of
16. Bit by Bit
17. Cells: Nature's Chemical Factories
18. Chemical Energy in Cells
19. Acids and Bases
20. What's in Food
21. Break It Down
22. Breathing Gases In, Breathing Gases Out
23. See It
24. Smell It
25. All in the DNA
26. Dangerous Chemicals
27. One for All
28. Chemical Signals
29. Chemical Controllers
30. Light It Up
31. Deep on the Seafloor
32. Earth Chemistry
33. What's Going on in the Soil?
34. Sun Chemistry
35. Splitting a Nucleus Apart
36. All Together
37. Greenhouse Gases