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I want to karma whore by linking to the Periodic Table of Videos 115 entry and wondering when there will be an update to linked video.

As an addition: www.periodicvideos.com/ One of The University of Nottingham's great video series. They're not exactly a chemistry textbook, but the author specified a 10 year old, and I think these are just the sort of thing to really cement the interest in chemistry and science in general in a young viewer. Plus they get bonus points because the main chemist professor Poliakov has mad scientist hair (not to mention a wonderful knowledge of the history of chemistry and decades worth of experience and humorous anecdotes). :-)

I highly recommend subscribing to all of their youtube channels, young aspiring chemist (astronomer, physicist, mathematician) or not.

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You'll enjoy watching it yourself. Very not boring.

They should give it to Nottingham, because then we'll get to see updates on all the great research being done. If you haven't already I suggest subscribing to their awesome YouTube channels:

http://www.youtube.com/periodicvideos ( http://www.periodicvideos.com/ for the table you can click on to see each elements video)
http://www.youtube.com/user/BackstageScience
http://www.youtube.com/user/sixtysymbols
http://www.youtube.com/user/nottinghamscience
http://www.youtube.com/user/PhilosophyFile

You'll definitely want http://www.periodicvideos.com/ and their sister site, http://www.sixtysymbols.com/ . Both are first rate.

Nothing, of course, can replace actually carrying out experiments yourself when learning chemistry. As well as the excitement of some of the experiments it teaches you that an experiment never really goes "wrong" as such, just an unexpected / unplanned result (was it your setup or the assunotions that were wrong).

However, a great site for watching experiments and learning about the elements is periodic videos. They have a video on each element and lots of experiments that are perhaps too dangerous for a school lab.

Like the other replies to this post, I completely agree -- I wish more teachers thought like this (and not *just* in chemistry). Teaching chemistry using "theory only" is like teaching programming using pen and paper (which I'm old enough to remember, and greatly resent).

This is about mnemonics. Associate formulas, tables, ratios and reactions with visual memory -- seeing is remembering. Sometimes you don't even have to do the experiment in class -- if something is either dangerous or expensive, there's probably plenty of videos online of the process. This is actually a subject matter in which youtube is a "good resource" (for the visuals, anyway).

Here are a few sites that either give examples of practical/cheap experiments or provide videos of all sorts of chemistry-related material:
thenakedscientists.com
http://www.rsc.org/education/teachers/learnnet/videoclips.htm
http://www.planet-scicast.com/experiments.cfm

Here are a few additional online chemistry resources (the more visual information, the better):
webelements.com
chemicool.com
periodictable.com
periodicvideos.com
practicalchemistry.org
mindat.org

It's like any other subject -- get the students *interested* in _topic_, and they'll teach themselves.

You don't get a more classic science look. And his stories are great. http://periodicvideos.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_Poliakoff

What will the Boron lady think of this new development: http://www.periodicvideos.com/videos/005.htm