Chain Reactions Paperback Book Set
This series looks at developments, inventions, and discoveries in science and how a discovery or invention by one individual can lead to a series of discoveries by others and even a chain of scientific breakthroughs. Each book charts a few connected developments in a particular field of science from first discoveries through to current applications. Paperback, 64 pages each.
Titles include:
Cowpox to Antibiotics
DNA to GM Wheat
Laughing Gas to Face Transplants
Sea Urchins to Dolly the Sheep
Mendels Peas to Genetic Fingerprinting
Steam Engines to Nuclear Fusion
Common Core standards covered:
CCRA.R.1-10; RST.6-8.1-10