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Yes!
My son loves this book, Elementa With Style, we recently got it from the library he took it with him and the periodic table poster to show his class at school.

There was an absolutely brilliant 3 (or 4) part TV series here in the UK that my 10 year old loved - it drew together Chemistry and Physics. It was on BBC4 called Chemisty- A Volatile History.

If you can't get it on PBs or whatever you have in the US you could try Youtube, eg

Wow, that looks great, thanks! It doesn't seem to be available on DVD yet, sadly, but I suppose it will be at some point.

Hi Colinsmum
Just watch it on Youtube - it is absolutely worth it, and the BBC at its best. My just 10 year old "ate it up".

(You could try and copy it from Youtube - naughty!)

I expect we will watch it on YouTube, but we get jerks etc. which are annoying (in our area there is too much contention on the broadband, I suppose...), so when I see useful things on YT I buy them on DVD if possible. This kind of thing will get watched 64,832 times in our house, so definitely worth it :-)

ColinsMum - I've just seen that it will be shown on Thurs 4th March at 20:00 on BBC4

We don't have a television! It may be online, but of course that has the same problems as YouTube.

Episode 1 is on BBC4 this Thursday at 8pm. I will have the video waiting. Ashamed to say I will be taping Clint Eastwood straight afterwards - for myself :-)

Colinsmum - BBC programs are usually available online for a week after broadcast on the "BBCiPlayer". Stay up late when everyone has gone to bed and catch it then.

eScience is a great follow-up to the RealScience4Kids program. The content for the high school chemistry lab isn't too difficult for my 10-12 yo students who have already mastered RealScience and Cliff's StudySolver Chemistry.

http://www.esciencelabs.com/

http://www.amazon.com/CliffsStudySo...ooks&qid=1268724114&sr=1-1-spell