Frequently Asked Questions Thousands of web sites for educators and students. Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. This interactive CD-ROM, designed for grades nine to twelve, introduces the periodic table and atomic structure with a combination of text, color pictures, animations, video and sound. Highlighting the periodic table, its groups and divisions, and the elements themselves, the disc presents uses, properties and histories in detail, together with pictures and video clips of chemical experiments.
Atomic structure is demonstrated by a series of animated sections.
The first of these demonstrates what an atom is, and includes an absorbing Atom Builder, which allows the user to construct his or her own atoms. From there the user can examine the nature and effects of radioactive emissions, and a further section allows isotopes to be built and studied. Also featured is a quiz based on the periodic table which tests the user's knowledge of the elements with both visual and textual questions. The Curriculum Pack includes teacher and pupil guides, workcards, open ended extended studies, crosswords, wordsearches and other activities. Scrapbook, an independent application, used in conjunction with the CD-ROM and supplied on a floppy disc, allows the user to view, select and save data which may include the user's own text into his or her own file.