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Fascinating Education is a company founded by Dr. Sheldon Margulies, a neurologist and internist in Silver Spring, Maryland. Fascinating Education consists of two curricula, Fascinating Chemistry and Fascinating Biology.

Fascinating Education was created because Dr. Margulies did not like the way his kids were being taught science. As a neurologist and internist with 35 years of teaching over 2500 medical students and residents, having authored three educational texts, and having gone to both medical school and law school, he felt he could make a difference in the way science is taught. (The three textbooks are Everyday Doctoring: a New Approach to the Logic and Reasoning of Neurology and Medicine, Learning Law, and The Fascinating Body.)

Instead of using written text with explanatory illustrations, Fascinating Education flips the learning process by using PowerPoint illustrations with text (in the form of attached audio files) to explain the illustrations.

Fascinating Education 1) assumes students know absolutely nothing about chemistry or biology, 2) slices the information very thin, 3) presents the material slowly and clearly, 4) follows a story line, 5) continually shows how chemistry and biology explain or solve some real life observation or problem, and 6) deemphasizes terminology.

Fascinating Education's use of technology is a natural for today's kids who are as comfortable with computers as past generations were with books. Students will love learning science using Fascinating Education's method of teaching. They can actually see how science works in vivid color rather than just reading about it. Using pictures leaves less room for ambiguity, and as they say, one picture is worth a thousand words.

More curricula are in development, including Fascinating Physics and Fascinating Medicine.