From: Paraluman Stice-Durkin (psticedurkin@punahou.edu)
Date: Fri May 18 2001 - 01:46:46 PDT
Message-ID: <001101c0df77$12f014c0$eafc1918@hawaii.rr.com> From: "Paraluman Stice-Durkin" <psticedurkin@punahou.edu> Subject: chemistry text Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 22:46:46 -1000
hi
it really depends on what you are looking for. i have taught out of
prentice hall, visulaizing matter (holt), modern chemistry, heath, and chem
com. my favorite is prentice hall. i think this is also a fine honors
book. the book presents topics in a logical order, beginning with the atom
and atomic structure instead of jumping right into naming and writing
formulas. this makes far more sense to kids rather than beginning with
naming (as heath and glencoe do). if the book is too in-depth, you can
always skip portions of it. visualizing matter also offers great
explanations and diagrams, but the problems were not always difficult enough
and the accompanying lab section in the back of the book was a throw-away,
in my opinion. they were trying to make a problem-based lab, which in
principle is great. but the sections are not well thought out and it ends
up being impractical and unrealistic. the labs that go with prentice hall
are better, although i still pick and choose my own from various sources.
of the lot, i would say that modern chem is my least favorite, mostly
because it is not as interesting for the kids and has many errors
**can someone out there write a decent general chem lab book? i'm sure we'd
all buy it :)
aloha, p
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