CHEMISTRY
"Curious about your world? Interested in how things work? Have ideas for how things can work better? You might be a future chemist! Chemists study how atoms and molecules come together, come apart, and transform into something new."

MATTER
"The air you're breathing. The magazine you’re reading. The orange juice you may have had for breakfast. You. All these things have something in common. They are all examples of matter. Most of the matter you see every day comes in one of three forms. It may be a solid, like grains of sand. It may be a liquid, like the water in the ocean. It may be a gas, like the air that’s helping a kite stay aloft."

LIGHT
"Take a look at your thumbnail. Now picture a spot the same size on the sun. This tiny spot would be as bright as one million candles shining all at once! The sun is our brightest and most important source of light. At any given moment, it sends out 383 billion billion megawatts of light energy. (That's 383,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 watts!) Compare this to a light bulb in your home. It proba. . . "

ELECTRICITY
"Flip on a light switch. Now flip it off. That simple action -- On/Off -- helps show electricity's power. Turn on a computer or a TV or a hair dryer. They show electricity's power, too. Most of the time, though, electricity can't be seen. In fact, you can't smell it, feel it, or hear it. But, it's hard at work. Some scientists feel that the word electricity is misused. To them . . . "

SIMPLE MACHINES
"Which is easier: lifting a piano ten feet up in the air or pushing it up a ramp until it is ten feet from the ground. Most people whould prefer to push the piano up the ramp. Ramps, also called inclined planes, are simple machines. Simple machines are devices that make work easier. Levers, wheels, screws, wedges, and pulleys are also simple machines. Other machines - such as computers, cranes, and cars - are compound, or complex machines. They combine more than one simple machine.

ATOMS
"'Atom.' The word comes from the Greek a-tamos, meaning 'indivisible.' At the time these particles were named, scientists thought that atoms were the smallest bits of stuff existing in nature. We now know differencly, but the name stuck. About one hundred different kinds of atoms exist. Most are found in nature. Scientists makes others in a laboratory."

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

• Eyewitness: Force & Motion.  By Peter Lafferty, Dorling Kindersley, 1999.
• Eyewitness: Energy.  By Jack Challoner, Dorling Kindersley, 2000.
• Forces and Motion (Science Fact Files). By Peter Lafferty, Raintree, 2000. 

ADULT BOOKS

• Alternative Energy (Essential Science Series).  By Marek Walisiewicz, International Thomson Publishing, 2002.
• Einstein 1905 : The Standard of Greatness.  By John S. Rigden, Harvard University Press, 2005.

WEBSITES

• U.S. Department of Energy: Teachers & Students
  http://www.energy.gov/engine/content.do?BT_CODE=TEACHERSSTUDENTS
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory: Learning About Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency
  http://www.nrel.gov/learning.html

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

• American Museum of Science and Energy
  http://www.amse.org/
• Bradbury Science Museum
  http://www.lanl.gov/museum/