Chemistry of Everyday Things

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 11.05.06

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Background
  4. Strategies/Activities
  5. Works Cited
  6. Appendix

The Chemistry of Weather

Deborah A. Johnson

Published September 2011

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Works Cited

Battan, Louis J. Fundamentals of meteorology. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1984.

This book is an introduction to meteorology and examines how the atmosphere affects humans. The reader will have some basic knowledge of the atmosphere, what scientist know about it now and questions that still have to be explored.

Cobb, Cathy, and Monty L. Fetterolf. The joy of chemistry: the amazing science of familiar things. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2010.

This book attempts to take the fear out of chemistry and how everyday things can be explained to the nonscientist. It helps to explain our world and the phenomena we see daily.

Davis, Raymond E. Modern chemistry. Orlando: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2009.

This high School chemistry book gives basic facts and theoretical principles on chemistry and how chemistry relates to certain properties of weather.

Lutgens, Frederick K., and Edward J. Tarbuck. The atmosphere: an introduction to meteorology. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1979.

This book is written for students interested in the study of meteorology. It has many useful illustrations that help to explain weather phenomena.

Stacy, Angelica M., Janice A. Coonrod, and Jennifer Claesgens. Weather: gas laws and phase changes. Prelim. ed. Emeryville, CA: Key Curriculum Press, 2003.

This student workbook offers science inquiry activities that relate chemistry with weather phenomena.

Stepp, Richard D.. Making theories to explain the weather. Arcata, CA: Stepp (Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA 95521), 1983.

This book is not like the typical introduction to meteorology. It raises questions and engages the reader to do science rather than read science. This book is more of a narrative because it outlines trials and errors that had lead meteorologists to come to the present day conclusions.

Wayne, Richard P. Chemistry of atmospheres. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

This book focuses on atmospheric chemistry and how humans have an impact on the lower level of the atmosphere and even that aircraft operations may affect the troposphere.

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