6 Plastics

Read Chapter 6 with me and let's answer the questions.

Here's a museum I want to visit. Let's put this on the list!

Wiki on shellac.

I recommend this video about making nylon. (If only for his voice.) Enjoy the story.

5 Combining functional groups

Read Chapter 5 with me.

Can you draw a chocolate molecule? Use the notes to help.

Here's an online site devoted to Percy Julian.

This week's challenge was to find out about soap that floated rather than sank. Try here!

4 Functional Groups

Read Chapter 4 with me in preparation for the workshop.

Watch this video about ethanol. See? Chemistry is politics.

And vinegar... from The Vinegar Institute.

3 -enes and -ynes

Molecules with double and triple bonds. Read Chapter 4 with me for the workshop.

This week's challenge is to find out about xylene. Here's a place to start.

2 Alkane Hydrocarbons

Read Chapter 2 in advance of the workshop.

You're asked this week to find out about oil reserves around the world. A map on Wiki shows who has the most.

Watch the Nottingham periodic video for Hydrogen.

The US Energy Kids site is here.