This handbook is based on a list of essential topics that should be mastered by the student who subsequently plans to pursue college chemistry. Chapters include: (1) "Introduction" (describing a position paper and the background of the handbook); (2) "Essential General Topics and Objectives"; (3) "Testing Students" (providing sample tests and answers); (4) "The Laboratory" (including a list of laboratory skills, sample tests on laboratory learning, procedures for preparing reagent solutions, and price lists of chemicals and supplies); (5) "Chemical Safety" (describing safety guidelines and checklists with resource materials); (6) "Chemistry Teachers and the Law" (relating accidents in the laboratory); (7) "Demonstrations" (describing the materials, procedures, waste disposal, and questions for 20 demonstrations); (8) "Experiments" (describing the objectives, preparations, sample data, waste disposal and questions for 17 experiments); and (9) "Reference Materials." (YP)