Some extensions and discussion topics are included as well as 23 essays on related science, technology, and society issues. Accompanying teacher's edition provides procedural support and answers to questions. Model kit contains 66 plastic atom spheres and 92 plastic snap-in bonds which can be used to illustrate molecular structures. Accompanying booklet shows photos of completed molecules and provides instructions as well as brief descriptions of molecules that contain multiple bonds, function groups, or have isomers. Interactive software program, for Windows and MS-DOS, allows students to form Lewis dot diagrams for covalent molecules or ions.
Students can then predict and build the molecule.
The resulting structure is presented as a 3-D diagram that can be manipulated. Accompanying teacher's booklet provides detailed instructions. Comprehensive resource package includes student text, two-volume teacher's resource manual, transparency package, and periodic tables package. The computer test banks are not recommended. Interactive CD-ROM introduces the periodic table and atomic structure through a combination of text, animations, colour frames, video, and sound.