Module developed by Herbert Bassow, William Bleam and Arthur C. Breyer, the Pennsylvania team.

Agricola, G. (1958). De re metallica (H. C. & L. H. Hoover. Trans.). New York, NY: Dover. (Original work published 1556).

This work covers mining and metallurgy with a section in Chapter 12 on salt manufactured from sea water and springs and wells.

Brooks, D. W. (Producer). (1989). Doing chemistry [Videodiscs, computer program and supporting written materials]. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society.

Brown, T., and LeMay, H. E. (1988). Chemistry: The central science (4th Ed.). Englewood-Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Properties (pp. 150­152) and reactivity (pp. 213­214) of alkali metals are discussed.

Chemical Education Material Study (Chem Study). (1969). Chemistry, An experi-mental science . New York, NY: Freeman.

Chapter 6, "Structure of the atom and chemical periodicity," provides useful information of periodic trends.

Cotton, F. A., Wilkinson, G., and Gaus, P. L. (1987). Basic inorganic chemistry (2nd Ed.). New York, NY: Wiley.

Chapter 10, "The Group IA (1) Elements" contains some interesting chemistry and excellent questions.

Gillespie, R., Humphreys, D., Baird, N. C., and Robinson, E. (1989). Chemistry (2nd Ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

Chapter 15, "The Alkali & Alkaline Earth Metals" and a discussion of the photoelectric effect are pertinent to this module.

"Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Cesium and Francium" (Chapter 4) is a very detailed presentation on the alkali metals.

Haddad, N. and Tempest, R. (September, 1993). Simplified but reliable flame spectroscopy, Chem 13 News, p. 16.

Holtzclaw, H., and Robinson, W. (1988). General chemistry (8thEd.). Lexington, MA: Heath.

Chapter 13. "The Active Metals," provides good coverage of occurrence, preparation, reactions, and compounds; treats alkali metals, alkaline earth metals and aluminum group in an interesting and effective comparative way.

Kotz, J., and Purcell, K. (1987). Chemistry and chemical reactivity . Philadelphia, PA: Saunders.

Interesting sections of this text are pp. 756­764 on "The Alkali Metals: Group IA" and pp. 779­780, special section on fireworks.

Lagowski, J. (1973). Modern inorganic chemistry. New York, NY: Marcel Dekker.

Chapter 8, "The Alkali Metals," presents a more specialized chemistry of these elements.

McQuarrie, D., and Rock, P. (1985). Descriptive chemistry. New York, NY: Freeman. "The Alkali Metals"( pp. 19­27) has good photos and data tables.

Multhauf, R. (1978). Neptune's gift . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

The history of common salt, table of salt production over the years by various countries, history and applications of salt, chemistry of salt are included.

Murray, P. R. S., and Dawson, P. R. (1976). Structural and comparative inorganic chemistry. London: Heineman Educational Books.

Chapter 8, "Group 1: The Alkali Metals" has some useful tables and graphs.

Steele, D. (1966). The chemistry of the metallic elements. New York, NY: Pergamon Press.

Chapter 4, "Group IA: The Alkali Metals," contains very interesting tables on chemical reactivity.

Weeks, M. E. (1968). Discovery of the elements (7th Ed.). Easton, PA: Journal of Chemical Education.

This book (the 7th edition was revised by H. Leicester) is now out of print. It would be a very worthwhile addition to your library if you could obtain it from a second-hand bookstore.

Whitten, K. W., Gailey, K. D., and Davis, R. E. (1988). General chemistry with qualitative analysis (3rd Ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Saunders.

Chapter 22, "Metals and Metallurgy" and Chapter 23, "The Representative Metals" are excellent.

Zumdahl, S. S. (1986). Chemistry . Lexington, MA: Heath.

"The Properties of a Group: The Alkali Metals" (pp. 280­284) and the special fireworks section (pp. 285­287) provide interesting material.

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