From the creators of Scary Science, another fascinatingly fun book of experiments -- this time with a focus on winter! Science is fun all year round -- and here's a book to prove it! This winter, kids, their parents and their teachers will be inspired to try these simple experiments inside, inspired by the freezing weather outside. Kids can learn to make their own ice cream, create an indoor avalanche and pick up an ice cube with just a piece of string. Also included are fun facts about icebergs, frost, "orange" snow and lots more cool winter science!
Go on . . . get dirty! Think that the dirt beneath your feet is boring? Wrong! There's more to dirt than, well, dirt. In fact, don't call it dirt to a scientist - it's soil! Soil can tell you a lot about where you live and what's going on behind, or beneath, the scenes. Learn how to make a Berlese funnel that brings out tiny unseen bugs in soil; learn the differences between various soils; even change a blue hydrangea to a pink one! Is it magic? Nope . . . it's science! With the fun, easy experiments and lively illustrations that readers have come to expect from the team behind Scary Science: 25 Creepy Experiments and Snowy Science: 25 Cool Experiments, budding scientists will discover all the fun things you can do with dirt, all while learning about the ground beneath their feet!
Kids love the tub--and it makes a really cool "laboratory” for carrying out experiments that are gallons of fun. Find out why some toys sink but rubber ducky always floats. Make a "wave machine,” a water cannon that blasts mind-boggling explosions of liquid; zippy hydroplanes--or peer through periscopes and prepare perfect bubble solution. Every page bursts with brilliant drawings, and loads of photographs that display the entire process.
Award-winning authors Shar Levine and Leslie Johnstone have cooked up a science success in the kitchen and made a splash in the bathroom, all by showing kids how to transform their homes into exciting science labs. Next stop: the backyard, where earthworms, snails, flowers, and other plants and animals provide the perfect environment for budding ecologists to begin their study of nature. Whether they’re testing a garden slug’s slime to see how sticky it is, finding and germinating fern spores, or getting down and dirty in the earth to see soil critters, children will love this array of fun outdoor science activities.
A hotbed of seismic activity, the San Francisco Bay Area is also an epicenter of vital new work by an art community always pushing the bounds of cultural innovation. Epicenter showcases the work of nearly fifty prominent and rising-star artists who have made this region the base of eclectic, cutting-edge art on the West Coast. Each profile captures the essence of the artists work with a gallery of signature work, critical career overview, brief biography, and selected bibliography for further exploration. The artists featured in Epicenter reflect the ethnic diversity, variety of media, and originality of the regional scene. Packaged in a handsome horizontal format with a forward-looking design, Epicenter is a timely look at the leading purveyors of the areas pioneering and ever-shifting panorama of art. Artists featured in Epicenter: Ray Beldner, Christopher Brown, Squeak Carnwath, Enrique Chagoya, Ann Chamberlain, Bruce Conner, Linda Connor, Crane|Winet, Judy Dater, Lewis de Soto, Viola Frey, Rupert Garcia, Carmen Lomas GarzaKen Goldberg, Guillermo Gmez-Pea, Ian Green, Lynn Hershman, Todd Hido, Doug Hollis, Mildred Howard, David Ireland, Paul Kos, Suzanne Lacy, Hung LiuTom Marioni, Richard Misrach, Anna Valentina Murch, Nobuho Nagasawa, Ron Nagle, Deborah Oropallo, Gay Outlaw, Irne Pijoan, Lucy Puls, Alan Rath, Rigo, Raymond Saunders, Richard Shaw, Katherine Sherwood, Silt, Mary Snowden, Larry Sultan, Survival Research Laboratories, Stephanie Syjuco, Mark Thompson, Meredith Tromble, Catherine Wagner, Henry Wessel, Rene Yung
Shows how to turn your kitchen into a laboratory and perform all sorts of experiments with food, such as making sun tea, creating an acid/base tester, and gathering spores from mushrooms.
Plants that grow and blossom, intriguing wildlife, water and dirt, and the environment: by looking at all the wonderful elements of nature, kids will begin to discover science principles in everyday life. As they carry out experiments with handy items, they’ll uncover the reasons why leaves change color in the fall, why ants march in a line, and lots of life’s other fascinating mysteries. Young scientists will check out where seeds come from and cultivate their own. Take a close look at a ladybug’s spots and find out what they mean. See what happens when oil gets in water, what’s inside a rock, how to help the environment, and more.
How do machines work? Kids will have a blast constructing a mini-seesaw to illustrate the way a lever operates or creating their very own pulley from an empty spool, string, ribbon, pails, pennies, a broom, and two chairs. They’ll find out why they can’t put in a screw using only their fingers and examine the different parts of compound machines. In another experiment, a child’s bicycle becomes a laboratory for understanding whether wheels have to be smooth to run. A good time will be had by all.
See a whole new world! So many things are invisible to the naked eye, but under a microscope they spring to life. These hands-on science experiments show kids how to glimpse this magical, microscopic universe. Microscope basics cover microtomes, wet mounts, and smear and squash slides. Then take a close-up look at animal bone marrow, cartilage, and fur; the icky slime on your teeth in the morning; pollen and grass; stinging nettles; and many other objects. You'll get a "bright idea" for examining a burnt-out light bulb, do a "flaky experiment" with a snow crystal, and make "a good impression" by creating a surface print of a flower petal or leaf. Learn how forensic scientists use microscopes to help solve crimes. The dozens of wondrous photographs and funny drawings, along with intriguing science fair suggestions, encourage children to embark on their own microscopic explorations. 80 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10. NEW IN PAPERBACK.
Take control! Kids build the remote themselves and gain hands-on experience with the science of light and energy. Includes everything kids need to build a working remote control (for use with home TV and VCR). Kids build and program this universal remote to discover how light and energy make channel surfing possible.
Readers can experiment with these projects, adapted for different grade levels, and come up with an award-winning science fair project that doesn't require a lot of work. Projects include experiments with aromas, osmosis, why salt water doesn't freeze, and more. Includes checklists and suggestions for doing research. Full-color illustrations.
Everyday Science is fun, easy, and useful! Each and every experiment in Everyday Science is guaranteed to make you think about the way things work. At the same time, you will learn how to make stuff you can use every day. Want a telephone in your room? You'll enjoy making one for yourself, using one of the projects in this book. Or maybe you'd like to take pictures with a camera you've made from an oatmeal box or make a hand-warmer in a plastic sandwich bag. Every one of the 25 projects in this book can be completed with materials you find around the house. The simple, clear instructions and illustrations help you get each experiment right the first time you try it.
African-American women fought for their freedom with courage and vigor during and after the Civil War. Leslie Schwalm explores the vital roles of enslaved and formerly enslaved women on the rice plantations of lowcountry South Carolina, both in antebellum plantation life and in the wartime collapse of slavery. From there, she chronicles their efforts as freedwomen to recover from the impact of the war while redefining their lives and labor. Freedwomen asserted their own ideas of what freedom meant and insisted on important changes in the work they performed both for white employers and in their own homes. As Schwalm shows, these women rejected the most unpleasant or demeaning tasks, guarded the prerogatives they gained under the South's slave economy, and defended their hard-won freedoms against unwanted intervention by Northern whites and the efforts of former owners to restore slavery's social and economic relations during Reconstruction. A bold challenge to entrenched notions, A Hard Fight for We places African American women at the center of the South's transition from a slave society.
Thought you knew what a crystal looked like? Or your everyday household creepy crawler? Well, look again! These up-close images of plants, sea creatures, and the human body are guaranteed to gross out the meek-hearted and leave more intrepid investigators gawking. Suggested activities, such as looking for aphids on houseplants, help drive the learning home.
An in-depth guide explains how to put bugs, water, food, plants and pollen, and even parts of the body (like fingernails) under the scope for a close-up glimpse while also explaining how to identify the microscope's different pieces and how to focus properly.
Science is truly amazing, but not always beautiful. Take a look at the absolutely strange, unusual and outlandish things to be found on earth. You may need a strong stomach and bit of courage.
Join the international community of scientists and explore theworld's most exciting discoveries . . . Build a simple machine like the ancient Egyptians might have usedto build the pyramids. Construct your own rocket thrusters tosimulate those used by U.S. astronauts. Make your own paper using a2,000-year-old recipe from China. These are just some of the exciting projects you'll find in Sciencearound the World, a fun and fact-filled book of experiments andactivities highlighting scientific discoveries from throughouthistory that shaped the way we live. Travel from England toAustralia, Germany to Japan, Mexico to Canada, as you explore someof history's most famous moments in physics, chemistry, biology,geology, and more. Each experiment includes a list of requiredmaterials, illustrations, and easy-to-follow, step-by-stepinstructions.
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