The Complete Adventures of Mr. Tompkins: Glossary, Index, and Teacher's Guides

This book is a supplement to the educational science graphic novel THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF MR. TOMPKINS, and contains a glossary, index, and teacher's guides for the first three stories within that book. These three stories feature Albert Einstein explaining gravity, Ernest Rutherford teaching the history of the study of the atom, and Marie Curie discussing her life history and work with radioactivity. These stories were originally created as a series of videos; the first half of...
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This book is a supplement to the educational science graphic novel THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF MR. TOMPKINS, and contains a glossary, index, and teacher's guides for the first three stories within that book. These three stories feature Albert Einstein explaining gravity, Ernest Rutherford teaching the history of the study of the atom, and Marie Curie discussing her life history and work with radioactivity. These stories were originally created as a series of videos; the first half of the video would be a lecture by me, assuming the role of the bearded Professor from the Mr. Tompkins books written by my father, George Gamow. In those books, Mr. Tompkins would first attend a lecture by the Professor, then fall asleep to learn various scientific concepts. The second half of the video would be an illustrated Mr. Tompkins adventure, and recount the events of Mr. Tompkins' dream and the famous scientist he meets within it. Eventually it was decided to continue THE ADVENTURES OF MR. TOMPKINS as a line of "graphic textbooks" instead of videos, so only the first three stories within THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF MR. TOMPKINS have supplemental teacher's guides. These guides include links to the video versions of the Einstein, Rutherford, and Curie episodes.

These guides are a terrific, novel way to incorporate the ideas discussed in THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF MR. TOMPKINS into the classroom, and I hope you enjoy them.