Chemistry in the Community: (Chemcom)

By American Chemical Society

Book Overview

Touted as the most successful NSF-funded project published, Chemistry in the Community (ChemCom) by the American Chemical Society (ACS) offers a meaningful and memorable chemistry program for all levels of high school students. ChemCom covers traditional chemistry topics within the context of societal issues and real-world scenarios. Centered on decision-making activities where students are responsible for generating data in an investigating, analyzing that data and then applying their chemistry knowledge to solve the presented problem. The text is intensively laboratory-based, with all 39 of the investigations integrated within the text, not separate from the reading. With the ChemCom program, students learn more organic and biochemistry, more environmental and industrial chemistry, and more on the particulate nature of matter than other textbooks all within the relevance of solving problems that arise in everyday life. Meticulously updated to meet the needs of today's teachers and students, the new sixth edition of ChemCom adheres to the new science framework as well as the forthcoming next generation of science standards. Incorporating advances in learning and cognitive sciences, ChemCom' s wide-ranging coverage builds upon the concepts and principles found in the National Science Education Standards. Correlations are available showing how closely aligned ChemCom is to these and other state standards

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1429219521
• ISBN13: 9781429219525
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: W. H. Freeman
• Length: 864 Pages
• Weight: 4.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.7" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Great purchase!

The book displays information in a very creative and interesting manner which motivates my students to read it! Can't beat the price as well!

Innovative Curriculum

Are your students tired of the traditional curriculum and bored with the dry presentation of your current text? ChemCom embeds the content standards of chemistry in a series of topical units designed to catch the interest of students and thus increase their involvement and learning. Units on Water, Resources, Petroleum and Air use numerous in-text activities to stimulate students into seeing how chemistry is vital to understanding these current environmental and political issues. Chemistry concepts are introduced and then later reinforced as the student progresses through the eight units. Interesting labs that non-science majors can relate to and learn from complement the many in-text activities. This curriculum is fun to teach and it works!