Science Works Discover the Elements

This award winning program offers beginning chemistry and other physical science students the opportunity to explore the periodic table in a manner never dreamed of by chemists of just a few years past.

Let your students discover the excitement as learning chemistry enters a new dimension with this interactive multimedia CD-ROM. Discover The Elements represents the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements in ways never dreamed of by Mendeleev. The program includes information such as the uses, occurrences, history, production, and hazards of each element as well as more advanced information, tutorials, and a practice section. With the use of stunning graphics, 3D animation, digital video and audio, this CD-ROM is guaranteed to excite students to further their studies of the basic building blocks of the universe.

Through the use of an interactive interface, the user is encouraged to learn more about the naturally occurring elements that just symbols and numbers. This well illustrated and animated program offers such activities as tests of knowledge of the subject, background information about each element, key characteristics of each element and much, much more. With over two years in software development, there is little that the learner/user cannot find about the elements that is not covered within Discover The Elements. A must for any well-equipped chemistry classroom as well as the chemistry hobbyist! Available in either English or English/Spanish versions.

The Deluxe CD-ROM Package includes:

• Easy to use interface
• On-line help and glossary of terms
• Tutorials and practice quizzes
• Hundreds of photos of elements in everyday use
• Complete English and Spanish text and audio

• Exercises for measuring students' understanding of important Periodic Table concepts
• Black-line masters for overheads, hand-outs, and take home study guides
• Adobe Acrobat(TM) Reader software

• OS 7.1 or higher
• 5MB available hard drive space
• 32 MB available RAM (OS X requires a minimum of 128MB RAM)

• Windows 98, 2000, NT, XP
• 5MB available hard drive space
• 32 MB available RAM (Windows XP requires a minimum of 128MB RAM)