Chemistry
1st Choice Recommended
Inspire Chemistry (2020)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Print Edition ISBNs:
- Student: 978-0-02-138115-9
- Teacher: 978-0-07-688442-1
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- All online resources for all subjects built on the same platform
- Excellent teacher resources
- Adaptive learning platform (LearnSmart)
- Solutions, not just answers available for selected practice problems
- Easily links to Google Classroom
- Customizable reading levels
- Downloadable eBooks allow offline access
- Links to other educational resources that are not McGraw-Hill's (PhET simulations, Spongelab)
- ALEKS for chemistry available
- Excellent and varied labs available for all topics
- Read-aloud feature in online resources
2nd Choice Recommended
Chemistry (2017)
Publisher: Pearson
Print Edition ISBNs:
- Student: 978-1-32-320590-7
- Teacher: 978-1-32-320591-4
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- Personalized tutoring
- High quality media galleries available e.g. Untamed Science videos
- Each chapter begins with a Chapter Mystery with clues to pique student interest
- Solutions, not just answers available for selected practice problems
- Interactive simulations
- Wide variety of suggested labs with materials list featured at the beginning of the Teacher's Edition
- Probe labs compatible with Vernier, Pasco, and Texas Instruments
- Different reading levels of student text and resources available
- Integrates art with sciences
- Every chapter contains a real life chemistry connection – Chemistry and You
- Differentiated instruction strategies are included
- Math diagnostics for chemistry
3rd Choice Recommended
Modern Chemistry (2017)
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Print Edition ISBNs:
- Student: 978-0-54-481784-5
- Teacher: 978-0-54-481785-2
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- Online resources
- Differentiated instruction strategies included
- Access to customizable pictures and graphs
- Ability to modify resources to match student needs
- Audio feature available
- Notetaking strategies build into problem solving activities
- Interactive notetaking available within eTextbook
- Inquiry based
- ExamView with the ability to differentiate assessments
- Intentional connection of chemistry to other sciences
- High quality media galleries available e.g. Why It Matters video
- Variety of suggested labs
- Aligned with NGSS
- Thing Explainer (simple, humorous explanation of important concepts)
- Not visually stimulating
4th Choice Recommended
Active Chemistry A Project-Based Inquiry Approach
Publisher: Activate Learning (Kendall Hunt)
Print Edition ISBNs:
- Student (2015): 978-1-60-720792-4
- Teacher (2011): Volume 1, Chapters 1-4 ISBN: 978-1-60-720400-8
- Teacher (2011): Volume 2, Chapters 5-8 ISBN: 978-1-60-720401-5
- Teacher (2011): 2 Volume Set ISBN: 978-1-60-720402-2
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- Strictly project-based
