Jinkies! What happened to that crocodile? Scooby-Doo and the gang are on a mission to find out what created the creepy crocodile ... and what the local power plant might have to do with it. Join their investigation using the science of electricity to find the shocking truth behind the mutant crocodile!

Jinkies! What happened to that crocodile? Scooby-Doo and the gang are on a mission to find out what created the creepy crocodile ... and what the local power plant might have to do with it. Join their investigation using the science of electricity to find the shocking truth behind the mutant crocodile!

There's a ghost on the loose at school! Explosions in the science room, metal turning to rust, cakes burning in the cooking lab É is the ghost to blame? Join the gang as they investigate the spooky mystery and catch the ghost in the act of causing chemical reactions!

When the Mystery Machine pulls into the ski resort, the power is out. Something sinister is to blame and the gang is going to find out what it is! Scooby-Doo and friends put the science of energy to work and uncover an electrifying ghost mystery!

The aliens have landed! That's what Scooby-Doo and the gang think when they see a UFO and an alien who seems determined to destroy the local lighting store. But why? Join the gang as they use science to uncover the alien's mission and put a stop to its not-so-bright idea.

A heavy metal monster at a heavy metal rock concert? Scooby-Doo and the gang find themselves drawn to a magnetic mystery in which a creepy iron creature is destroying everything in sight. Join their scientific investigation of the magnetizing monster and help repel its powers!

-Scooby-Doo and the gang learn about the science of sound and solve a mystery about a zombie---

As television emerged as a major cultural and economic force, many imagined that the medium would enhance civic education for topics like science. And, indeed, television soon offered a breathtaking banquet of scientific images and ideas—both factual and fictional. Mr. Wizard performed experiments with milk bottles. Viewers watched live coverage of solar eclipses and atomic bomb blasts. Television cameras followed astronauts to the moon, Carl Sagan through the Cosmos, and Jane Goodall into the jungle. Via electrons and embryos, blood testing and blasting caps, fictional Frankensteins and chatty Nobel laureates, television opened windows onto the world of science. But what promised to be a wonderful way of presenting science to huge audiences turned out to be a disappointment, argues historian Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette in Science on American Television. LaFollette narrates the history of science on television, from the 1940s to the turn of the twenty-first century, to demonstrate how disagreements between scientists and television executives inhibited the medium’s potential to engage in meaningful science education. In addition to examining the content of shows, she also explores audience and advertiser responses, the role of news in engaging the public in science, and the making of scientific celebrities. Lively and provocative, Science on American Television establishes a new approach to grappling with the popularization of science in the television age, when the medium’s ubiquity and influence shaped how science was presented and the scientific community had increasingly less control over what appeared on the air.

Zoinks! There's a zombie on the loose! Scooby-Doo and the gang track the panflute-playing zombie to discover why the town's children all follow it. Using the science of sound, they uncover the zombie's secrets and learn about freaky sound frequencies!

Originally published: Mankato, MN: Capstone Press, Ã2009.