Science Matters is designed to educate and inform viewers about science topics relevent to their lives and the world in which we live. Each Science Matters program focuses on essential core concepts, helping bridge conceptual development from the elementary to secondary level. Science Matters helps to prepare today's students for the science careers of tomorrow. A Matter of the Atom shows how atoms compose the matter that makes up our world. We learn that atoms have everything to do with everything.

Originally released by BECON, 2013. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on February 17, 2016.

A Matter of Atoms: Introduction (1:33); --Forms of Matter (2:33); -- Atomic Model (3:51); -- Big Bang Theory (3:03); -- Periodic Table (4:29); -- Electrons (2:30); -- Atomic Bonding (3:43); -- Atomic Compounds (2:16); -- Physical Properties of Matter (3:17); -- Atom Review (0:37); -- Credits: A Matter of the Atom: Science Matters (0:32); -- atoms (7:57);.