Everything You Need to Ace Chemistry in One Big Fat Notebook. (Big Fat Notebooks).

Everything You Need...in One Big Fat Notebook

by Jennifer Swanson

Chemistry? No problem! 

This  Big Fat Notebook  covers everything you need to know during a year of high school chemistry class, breaking down one big bad subject into accessible units. Learn to study better and get better grades using mnemonic devices, definitions, diagrams, educational doodles, and quizzes to recap it all. 

Including: 
Atoms, elements, compounds and mixtures
The periodic table
Quantum theory
Bonding
The mole
Chemical reactions and calculations 
Gas laws 
Solubility 
pH scale
Titrations 
Le Chatelier's principle
...and much more!

Genres: Science, Chemistry, Nonfiction, Education, School

512 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2020

About the author

Science Rocks! And so do Jennifer Swanson’s books. She is the award-winning author of over 45 nonfiction books for children. Using her background in science and history that she received from the U.S. Naval Academy, and her M.S. in Education, Jennifer excels at taking complex facts and making them accessible, compelling, and humorous for young readers, Jennifer's passion for science resonates in in all her books but especially, Astronaut-Aquanaut: How Space Science and Sea Science Interact and BEASTLY BIONICS which both received Florida Book Awards and NSTA BEST STEM book awards. Her Save the Crash-test Dummies book received an NSTA BEST STEM Award and a Parent’s Choice GOLD Award. Jennifer has been a featured speaker at the Tucson Book Festival, National NSTA conferences, the Highlights Foundation, the World Science Festival (twice), the Atlanta Science Festival (twice) and the Library of Congress’ National Book Festival in 2019. You can find Jennifer through her website www.JenniferSwansonBooks.com.

Reviews

[Nicole · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well written and beautiful diagrams, but I didn’t appreciate finding some incorrect information in this book. If it weren’t for the chemistry college course I’m auditing, I wouldn’t have learned it correctly. I had to take two stars off for that. You’d think they would have had a few experienced chemists proofread the book before publication.

[asiya | アセヤ (free palestine) · Rating 5 out of 5]

WOW.

This is probably one of the most influential books that has ever been written, like, it helped me so much when prepping for a quiz or test, that I felt like I really benefited more from it then the actual Chemistry class.

A HUGE recommend for any science fans or students out there!!!

[Nicholas (was Allison) · Rating 4 out of 5]

*4.43 Stars
Notes: I read this mostly for more of an informational research reason than anything else. The content included here was very artistically detailed and easy to read through in this graphic novel, as well as extremely educational. However, this is more of a refresh for me (I haven’t really read anything chemistry-related for a while in depth), so this was alright enough for that purpose. I found a copy of this from my library - previously I didn’t know about this graphic novel before, so I read it on the first time I had it checked out.

It took me around a few months to look through this in its entirety, as I wanted to make sure I 100% understood the concepts written in. I have recently been looking for more nonfiction topics relating to science to read through. I have had a broader science knowledge in multiple subjects, as chemistry is really rather known/popular in itself, I thought I’d start by reading this first, before any other similar type of nonfiction content recently. It was not too difficult for me to understand the math, so I never really had to take notes on it.

I’m going to keep this review more on the shorter side of things, since I recently was just on a one-day trip somewhere else, and completed this for informational purposes during last night and earlier today. I would recommend this to those who are interested in having more of a chemistry knowledge - I just don’t want to stress anyone out too much, is all.

[Toni · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think this book would most likely help students with chemistry, like it says.

What I learned is that chemistry was not at all as fascinating as I thought it would be. Today, I started reading as usual, then decided to skim through the rest of the book, so it's a dnf for me.

And it is probably 5 stars because it makes chemistry somewhat more understandable (truth be told, the parts I understood were parts I had learned in classes like biology and general physics), but 4 stars wirks for me.

[David Brinkman · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was helpful. I wasn’t taught chemistry in high school. I always wondered what it’s about. I didn’t understand everything but I did learn some things. I would have loved to have this book in school. It’s a helpful guide of principles.

[Xulin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Unlike physics, not to mention mathematics, chemistry really has too many rules and exceptions which are too hard to memorize and understand. So I am not good at it at all, whether in middle school or thirty years later.

[Martin Lostak · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty easy book to review your chemistry skills from the high school.

[Remy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Friendly and basic. :-) A good resource to have on a homeschool shelf.

[Vic]

we love chem

[j p · Rating 4 out of 5]

a good book. a little confusing. let’s hope it’s enough for next year.

[Grace · Rating 5 out of 5]

A nice summarization of chemistry.

[Tyler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this before a chemistry class, extremely helpful to make you familiar with the topics

[Ifeanyi Theodore · Rating 5 out of 5]

great book

[Aprilleigh · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book will never take the place of a decent textbook, nor does it try to, but it would be a fantastic tool to help someone get through a chemistry class. There are 36 chapters arranged into 12 units, with a set of questions at the end of each chapter designed as a self-test of your understanding. The book is filled with simple diagrams and tables that organize the information you're expected to learn. Many of the topics that tend to be challenging are covered, including balancing chemical equations and thermodynamics. The book is unlikely to help a poor student pass the class, but it will make learning the information easier for a student who puts in the work.

[Foxglove · Rating 3 out of 5]

Most of the book is useful and informative, but there are a couple glaring errors that definitely didn’t help me learn Chemistry. One of the most obvious errors was the statement that water is made up of two oxygen atoms and one hydrogen. Considering water is quite literally H20, this was irritating to find.