How can you bend water with a ruler? What makes grass green? How do machines work? What happens if you add raisins to a fizzy drink? Why don't seals freeze in icy water? Can anything stop paper clips from sinking? This book will show you how to discover the answers to these questions and more - making you think like a scientist in a few simple steps.
A highly illustrated tour of the human body, with simple, fun analogies to explain how it all works. Follow the owl professor as he takes two children on a tour of a body. But not just any human body - a gigantic factory building built to explain how real bodies work, from cell 'building blocks' to conveyor belts that carry life-giving energy packets and transport defenders to repel germ attacks! This beautifully illustrated book will open children's eyes to the wonder and weirdness of what's going on inside them.
How could plastic-eating bacteria help reduce waste? Can a river be given human rights? Could we generate all the power we need from the sun and the wind? How do woolly sweaters help penguins in peril? Would building a giant sunshade in space stop the world from overheating? Find the answers to these questions and more in this bold, graphic and exciting book, full of big, small and unexpected ways to save the planet.
What are phantom islands? How did the Black Death cause an ice age? How could graffiti save endangered tortoises? Find the answers to these questions and 97 more in this bold, graphic and exciting book, full of amazing things to know about Planet Earth. Illustrations: Full colour throughout
This book is an engaging introduction to chemistry and tackles the key concepts and big ideas in a friendly and accessible way. From atoms to molecules, discover the basic building blocks of the universe and find out how chemists use them to create amazing new medicines, materials and more. Follow step-by-step chemical reactions, explore the periodic table and learn all about chemistry's real-life applications from solving crimes to producing green energy.
This write-in activity book is packed with puzzles to solve, objects to design and colour, inventions to brainstorm and experiments to do - using only the book and the contents of your pencil case. Ideal for ages 8/9+, supports KS2 and STEM learning. All activities based on clear scientific or engineering principles. Explore key ideas in a hands-on, interactive way.
Broaden your horizons with this map-filled activity book! Explore the world's continents while completing puzzles and activities, then travel further afield with maps that reveal the ocean floor, stars in the night sky and imaginary worlds. You'll also discover how maps can be used to forecast the weather, represent time zones and solve crimes.
Part of the best-selling '...for Beginners' series that brings to life the wide world of physics. Rather than explaining details about how to do physics, this book focusses on explaining what different branches of physics are about, how we know about them, and what mysteries remain for budding physicists to uncover. It doesn't shy away from the hard stuff, tackling Black Holes, quantum mechanics and even Einstein's theory of relativity.
A dynamic,visual collection of the biggest, tallest, fastest, strongest, highest, deepest, longest and furthest things in the world - and beyond. Simple facts are coupled with eye-popping visuals that show off the sheer scale of each superlative. Bright colours and stylish artwork throughout. Over 100 basic answers to playground wonderings about which things really are the biggest, fasest etc. Part of Usborne's lift-the-flap information series, which includes titles on the periodic table, engineering, world atlas and more.
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