Mystery of Matter Video Library Now Open!

The Mystery of Matter Video Library is a collection of freestanding videos about different aspects of the story of the search for the elements. The videos, most of them 4-12 minutes long, draw on the interviews, re-enactments, animations and photographs we shot and collected for the PBS series, with supplementary animations and images as needed. When complete, the library will include 36 videos comprising about six hours of additional chemistry programming beyond the broadcast series. There will be 24 “teacher videos” covering key chemical concepts like the Periodic Table, the structure of the atom and the Conservation of Matter in more detail than we had time for in the TV series. The remaining 12 videos will be “general interest” pieces that do not address key chemistry concepts but may still be of interest to teachers of chemistry (and other subjects), because they show chemistry at work in social and historical context. To access the Video Library, go to our website at www.mysteryofmatter.net and click on For Teachers. About a dozen of the videos are still in production, so check back each week for the latest videos to be added to the library.



Mystery of Matter Clip Collection Now Available!

For teachers whose schedules are too full to fit in video segments of 20 minutes or more, the Mystery of Matter Clip Collection offers the entire PBS series in bite-size pieces of 1-4 minutes each. If you want your students to watch just a short video on the noble gases ... or the discovery of the nucleus ... or the Conservation of Matter (to name just three examples), this section of the website is ideal for you. For each of the six major sections of the series, there’s a one-page summary with about ten chapters. Teachers and students may instantly watch the clip that interests them simply by clicking on the chapter heading. To access the Clip Collection, go to our website at www.mysteryofmatter.net and click on For Teachers. And let us know what you think!