Looks like a spoke too soon... the Chem I is now based around the Prentice Hall book. He must have switched this year. ________________________________ From: kact-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kact-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cline, Brad Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 3:05 PM To: kact@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [KACT] Re: textbook? I've used the Kotz book from Cengage in the past and liked it, but I'm currently using Zumdahl 6th ed. (Houghton Mifflin) for my AP class and I think it is a very good text for the course. In fact, I'm probably going to just adopt the next edition when we are ready to adopt again. I have found that the Zumdahl book is the most widely used text for AP Chemistry and there are great resources to back it up. They have a wonderful online Blackboard site you can subscribe to and the students have found it very useful for their work. In addition, there is a great website www.sciencegeek.net <http://www.sciencegeek.net/> which was set up by a teacher in California who uses the Zumdahl book. He has online quizzes and notes as well as good powerpoints all made for the Zumdahl book. I have utilized all these resources and more. What I really like about the text itself is that it does a good job at not only showing how to work the problems, but takes time to really explain and understand why things work as they do. This is essential for those that study for the AP exam as it has been shown that the conceptual understandings are what you really need for the multiple choice section. Others are good (and most are similar), but overall I think Zumdahl is the best I've used to date. PS The sciencegeek website also has a section Chemistry I based around the Modern Chemistry text. ________________________________ From: kact-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kact-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rachel Dougherty Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:46 PM To: kact@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [KACT] textbook? We are adding chemistry 2 back again next year after 5 years off. What textbook are those of you who offer this course using? (It will be a class for college credit, similar to AP)