Readers will enter the laboratory and learn how to conduct cool experiments, understand scientific terms like "photosynthesis," and discover fun facts like how many latex balloons per day can be made from one rubber tree.
Ordinary folks can construct 13 awesome ballistic devices in their garage or basement workshops using inexpensive household or hardware store materials and this step-by-step guide. Clear instructions, diagrams, and photographs show how to build projects ranging from the simple - a match-powered rocket - to the more complex - a scale-model, table ...
Do you know how to make something that can tell whether the $20 bill in your wallet is a fake? Or how to generate battery power with simple household items? Or how to create your own home security system?Science-savvy author Cy Tymony does. And now you can learn how to create these thingsand more than 40 other handy gadgets and gizmosin Sneaky ...
Science-savvy author Tymony shows readers how to transform ordinary objects into the extraordinary, and how to create more than 40 handy gadgets and gizmos for almost any situation, including survival, security, self-defense, and silly applications that are just plain fun.
How do honeybees find their way home? Why is Venus so hot? How can you measure the speed of the wind? What makes a sound loud or soft? Discover the awesome answers to these and other fascinating mysteries in biology, chemistry, physics, earth science, and astronomy. Just try these 201 fun, safe, low-cost experiments at home or in the classroom. ...
For ages 9-12. Whether playing at defending their own castle or simply chucking pumpkins over a fence, wannabe marauders and tinkerers will become fast acquainted with Ludgar, the War Wolf, III Neighbour, Cabulus, and the Wild Donkey-ancient artillery devices known commonly as catapults. Re-creating these simple yet sophisticated machines ...
Discover the Basic Secrets of Chemistry Chemistry is a wondrous type of scientific magic. From its origins in medieval alchemy to the remarkable advances of today's biochemists--chemistry has the rare ability to captivate our imaginations. Chemistry for Every Kid introduces the young scientist to this intriguing field. In its pages you'll discover ...
In the spirit of Discovery Channel's "MythBusters" and "Smash Lab, Popular Science" columnist Gray demonstrates fundamental scientific principles through wacky, daredevil experiments.
How do magnets work? What makes a curve ball curve? What keeps an airplane in the air? How can a pulley make you five times stronger? Now you can learn the answers to these and other questions about basic physics through 101 fun, safe, low-cost experiments and activities that can be performed at home or in the classroom. In Physics for Every Kid, ...
This collection of challenging experiments will help get readers up to speed on laboratory techniques, safety and experimental procedures. Each experiment is presented with concise objectives, a comprehensive list of techniques, and detailed lab intros and step by step procedures. Beran also integrates numerous Dry Labs, experiments that do not ...
Full of games to play, machines to make, and ideas to explore, this guide teaches basic concepts--the nature of static electricity and more--through projects that can be carried out safely at school or at home with minimal supervision. Each experiment uses common household objects. Full-color photos.
A book for young readers, parents and teachers that teaches the basic principles of biology through fun and educational experiments, which can be performed at home or in the classroom with simple, common equipment. Two main sections cover plants and animals. Each chapter begins with an explanation of the principle to be studied (such as plant ...
This is a number 1 Robotics book of all time super-charged by a famous new co-author and updated to reflect state-of-the-art advances. Everybody's favorite amateur robotics book is bolder and better than ever - and now features the field's "grand master" Myke Predko as the new author! Author duo McComb and Predko bring their expertise to this ...
Science-savvy author Tymony shows readers how to transform ordinary objects into the extraordinary, and how to create more than 40 handy gadgets and gizmos for almost any situation, including survival, security, self-defense, and silly applications that are just plain fun.
"The Everything Kids' Magical Science Experiments Book" is filled with over 50 science experiments that bend the rules of time, space and logic so far, they appear to be magical.Kids can conduct these experiments safely in the home, unlocking the mysteries of experiments that: you can create using common food items; will help you explore the ...
Why do planets spin? How hot is the Sun? What keeps the Moon in orbit around the Earth? What are Saturn's rings made of? What's a black hole in space? Now you can discover the answers to these and other fascinating questions about basic astronomy. In Astronomy for Every Kid you'll learn about the constellations using a shoe box planetarium. You'll ...
Presents a variety of experiments using items you can buy in the supermarket. Also explains the scientific basis for such things as the flexible plastic strips that cover doorways leading into the meat departments in many large markets.
You don't need a laboratory full of bubbling green liquids to be a scientist! All you need is a simple idea - and you will find fifty of them in this book, answering questions about Biology, Physics and Chemistry: can a dog have high blood pressure; do mobile phones really cause traffic accidents; what is actually in that bowl of breakfast cereal; ...
A collection of 50 science projects on such topics as astronomy, biology, earth science, engineering, physical science, and mathematics. Also included are tips of how to select a project, how to put together a professional looking display, and how to present the project to judges.
Step-by-step instructions to building over 30 fascinating devices are included in this book for workbench warriors and grown-up inventors. Detailed illustrations and diagrams explain how to construct a simple radio with a soldering iron, a few basic circuits, and three shiny pennies. Instructions are included for a rotary steam engine that ...
Science is at work everywhere - in the kitchen, up in the sky down in the ground, and all around us in plants, animals, machines, even the mind. Here are 100 ways to show how it works and come out tops at school project time. * Stir up chemical magic * Turn a copper pot green with oxidation * Prove that computers emit radio waves * Show off ...
The Pop Bottle bottle is a perfect miniature science lab - see through, flexible, air-tight when necessary, made out of a durable, shatter-proof plastic and designed with a removable top that doubles as a funnel. The Pop Bottle book is a lively, fully illustrated 96-page guide to astonishment. Each experiment begins with a challenge and ends with ...
A collection of easy experiments in biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy and the Earth sciences, that can be performed safety at home or in the classroom. All experiments have detailed instructions and scientific explanations, and none require elaborate or expensive equipment.
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