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Books and arcticles

Aldersey-Williams, Hugh. The Most Beautiful Molecule: The Discovery of the Buckyball. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1995.
Ardley, Neil. 101 Great Science Experiments. New York: Dorling Kindersly, 2006.
Beckett, S. T. The Science of Chocolate. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2000.
Bendick, Jeanne. Archimedes and the Door of Science. Warsaw: Bethlehem Books, 1997.
Boorstin, Daniel J. The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search to Know His World and Himself. New York: Vintage Books, 1985.
Boys, C.V. Soap Bubbles and the Forces Which Mould Them. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959.
Buddemeier, R., Dleypas, J.A., and Aronson, R. “Coral Reefs & Climate Change: Potential Contributions of Climate Change to Stresses on Coral Reef Ecosystems.” (2004) Prepared for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, 56 pp.
Carey, M.C. “Benjamin Franklin, Lord Rayleigh, Agnes Pockels, and the origins of surface chemistry.” (1984) Falk Symposium 42: 5-26.
Downie, Neil A. Exploding disk cannons, slimemobiles, and 43 other projects for Saturday science. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Downie, Neil A. Ink sandwiches, electric worms, and 37 other experiments for Saturday science. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Downie, Neil A. Vacuum Bazookas, Electric Rainbow Jelly, and 27 Other Saturday Science Projects. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Ernsberger, F. M. In Glass: Science and Technology; Uhlmann, D. R.; Kreidle, N. J., Eds.; Acad.: New York, 1980; Vol. V, Chapter 1.
“Found It! Ice on Mars.” (28 February 2002) [Accessed February 22, 2007] http://science.nasa.gov/
Franklin, Benjamin, “Of the stilling of Waves by means of oil.” (1774) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 64: 445-60.
Frederickson, M., M.J. Greene and D.M. Gordon. “Ants bedevil devil's gardens.” (2005) Nature 437:495-496.
Fritz, L., Quilliam, M., and Wright, J. An Outbreak of Domoic Acid Poisoning Attributed to the Pennate diatom Pseudonitzschia Australis. (1992) J. Phycol. 28: 439-442.
Giles, C. H., and Forrester, S.D. “The Origins of the Surface Film Balance.” (1971) Chemistry and Industry: 43-
Green, Martin Burgess, Gandhi. New York: Continuum, 1993.
Hakim, Joy. The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way. Washington, Smithsonian Books, 2004.
Hakim, Joy. The Story of Science: Einstein Adds a New Dimension. Washington: Smithsonian Books, 2007.
Hakim, Joy. The Story of Science: Newton at the Center. Washington: Smithsonian Books, 2005.
Hoffman, Roald. The Same and Not the Same. New York: Columbia Press, 1995.
Jeng, M., 2005. "Hot Water Can Freeze Faster Than Cold?!?" PhysicsarXiv:physics/0512262, v.1 (29 Dec 2005) [accessed March 20, 2007] http://arxiv.org/
Kerrod, Robin and Holgate. Sharon Anne, The Way Science Works: Discover the Secrets of Science with Exciting, Accessible Experiments. New York: DK Publishing, 2002.
Kleypas, J.A., R.A. Feely, V.J. Fabry, C. Langdon, C.L. Sabine, and L.L. Robbins, 2006. Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Coral Reefs and Other Marine Calcifiers: A Guide for Future Research, report of a workshop held 18–20 April 2005, St. Petersburg, FL, sponsored by NSF, NOAA, and the U.S. Geological Survey, 88 pp.
Langone, John. Theories for everything: an illustrated history of science from the invention of numbers to string theory. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2006.
Mainstone, J., “An Improbable Journey from Cambridge to Cambridge.” (2005) Australian Physics Vol. 42, No. 2.
“Making a Splash on Mars.” 29 (June 2000) [Accessed February 24, 2007] http://science.nasa.gov/
Malik, T., “Changing Mars Gullies Hint at Recent Flowing Water.” (12 June 2006) [Accessed February 27, 2007] http://www.space.com/
Merk, F.S., Deegan, R.D., Goldman, D.L., Rericha, E.C., and Swinney, H.L., “Persistent Holes in a Fluid.” (2004) Physical Review Letters Vol. 92, No. 18, 184501-1 to 184501-4.
Mestel, Rosie. "Hitch's birds deranged by dodgy anchovies (toxicity of domoic acid in Alfred Hitchcock's seabirds)." New Scientist 147.n1987 (July 22, 1995): 6(1). Expanded Academic ASAP. Thomson Gale. EIN Remote Access. 29 Mar. 2007.
Mpemba, E.B. and Osborne, D.G., “Cool?.” (1969) Phys. Educ. 4, 172-175.
Noddy, Tom. Tom Noddy’s Bubble Magic. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Running Press, 1988.
Plimpton, George. Fireworks: A History and Celebration. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1984.
Plumb, R.C., "Antique windowpanes and the flow of supercooled liquids." (1989) J. Chem. Educ. 66 (12), 994-6.
Quilliam, M. A. and Wright, J. The Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning Mystery. (1989) Analytical Chemistry vol. 61, no. 18., 1053-1060.
Roach, John, “Ants Use Acid to Make Gardens in Amazon, Study Says” National Geographic News, 2006. (09 September 2005) [accessed on March 21, 2007] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news
Safer by the Sip: “Nano-rust” Cleans Arsenic from Drinking Water. [Accessed on March 12, 2007.]
http://cohesion.rice.edu/
The Science Channel’s 100 Greatest Discoveries. Chemistry [videorecording]/produced by Thinkfilm, Inc; the Science Channel; produced and directed by Michael F. Fountain; writer, Ivan Amato; executive producer, Joseph Aloysius Becker. Silver Spring, MD: Discovery Education, 2005.
Seki, K & Toyoshima, M. Preserving tardigrades under pressure. (1998) Nature 395: 853–854.
Silver, Brian. The Ascent of Science. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Smith, Alastair, ed., Usborne Big Book of Experiments. New York: Usborne Publishing, 1996.
Susan McKeever, ed., The DK Science Encyclopedia. New York: DK Publishing, 1998.
Tanford, Charles. Ben Franklin Stilled the Waves: An Informal History of Pouring Oil on Water with Reflections on the Ups and Downs of Scientific Life in General. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Walker, J. "The Amateur Scientist: Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold Water. Why Does It Do So?" (1977) Scientific American 237 (3): 246–257.
Wolf, Charles. Chemistry Applied and Descriptive. Dallas: J.M. LeBel Enterprises, 2002.
Work, T., Barr, B., Beale, A., Fritz, L., Quilliam, M., and Wright, J. Epidemiology of Domoic Acid Poisoning in Brown Pelians (Pelecanus occidentalis) and Brandt’s Cormoroants (Phalacrocorax Penicillatus) in California. (1993) Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 24(1): 54-62.
Zubrowski, Bernie. Bubbles: A Children’s Museum Activity Book. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1979.

Web Sites

Information and interview with Stephanie Kwolek, the inventor of Kevlar, as well as other scientists.
Information on Charles Goodyear, the discovery of rubber, and the history of the Goodyear Tire Company.
History of Science (information on lots of scientists, organized by subject).
Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics, including Agnes Pockels.
Chemical Achievers (biographies of many chemists from the Chemical Heritage Foundation).
Information on secret codes, invisible ink, and captured letters from the American Revolution.
Story of the Gold Medal and Nazis, as well as other Nobel laureate stories.
Activities and demonstrations: Tons of fun science activities with explanations, videos of everything from science demonstrations to following scientists in the Antactic, from an award-winning museum of science, art, and human perception.
Activities and games from a traveling museum exhibit developed by the Ontario Science Center on the properties of matter.
Chemistry Comes Alive! Video collection of explosions and other chemistry experiments from the Journal of Chemical Education.
Bubbles, bubbles, and more bubbles, from an expert in the art of making them.
If you have some time, a handy adult to help, and the desire to make a giant soap film.
Everything you ever wanted to know about polymers, especially for kids.
Broadcasts by Nobel laureates and other experts on a variety of science subjects, including buckyballs, with a “schools” link for kid-friendly projects and information.
Information and recipes about candy from the National Confectioners Association.
Theory and Information: Periodic Table (click on each element to find out more information):
Periodic Table (a visual interaction)
3-D Interactive Structure of many Molecules.
Corning Museum of Glass.
Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Harmful Algal Blooms Program.
DK Online Encyclopedia that links to kid-friendly science websites with downloadable images for reports. This website can be used alone, or with DK’s linked book, E.encyclopedia.science.