The small book - seven inches square, and 128 pages - opens with an introduction explaining just what an element is and how (and why) the periodic table is arranged. I see it as a very accessible opportunity to learn a little about some chemistry.” In fact, The Periodic Table takes the “memory trigger” several giant steps further than does another nonfiction book familiar to home schoolers - Yo, Millard Fillmore - because the illustrations and text are all about the elements. Dingle, who writes, “This is not an academic book by any stretch of the imagination, but it does offer a window or gateway to getting interested in the elements. There really is no reason to think of science as boring, as I’ve discovered, and I hope readers will see the fun side of it.” Echoed by Mr. Basher, who came up with the idea for the book, has said, “It’s really been designed to engage you on a gentle level and also to act as a memory trigger. Not to mention a sensible approach to making the subject - indeed, the individual elements - memorable for everyone from fourth or fifth graders to college seniors (not to mention home educating parents who majored in, say, history).Īnd memorable is what you want when it comes to learning about the periodic table. I’ll be the first to admit I’m the originally fuddy-duddy, but there’s something about this anime-style, Facebook approach to the periodic table that’s remarkably engaging. ![]() I’ve been looking forward to reading this book ever since I saw it mentioned on Carol‘s and Rebecca‘s blogs.Īrtist Simon Basher and chemistry teacher Adrian Dingle have created a vivid rogues’ gallery of elements guaranteed to bring the periodic table to life and appeal to kids of all ages. Kingfisher Publications (Houghton Mifflin Co.) Jean Hagen as "Lina Lamont" in "Singin' in the Rain" (1952)Ĭreated (and illustrated) by (Simon) Basher, written by Adrian Dingle "If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, we feel all our hard work ain't been in vain for nothin'." "If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me." I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member."Īttributed to Groucho Marx in "The Groucho Letters" by Arthur Sheekman "No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem." Ginger Rogers to Frances Mercer in "Vivacious Lady" (1938) "I'd like to give you a piece of my mind." Gilbert Highet, "The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning" "The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning." ![]() "Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtile natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend." "Anyone who has a library and a garden wants for nothing." But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men’s hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead." Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old and die out and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. "The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. It is fatally easy to get accustomed to corrupting influences." William Morris, from his lecture "The Beauty of Life" "If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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