Features
- Reading level: Ages 9-12
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 320 pages
- Published by: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers January 3, 1997
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1884822673
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1884822674
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Book Dimensions:
9.5 x 8.4 x 1.3 inches
- Weighs: 2.6 pounds
Product Description
Illustrated by Frances Zweifel. The basics of science are brought to life in a year's worth of fun and educational hands-on experiments that can be performed easily and inexpensively at home.
Card Catalog Description
Presents a variety of activities, projects, and experiments that help to illustrate and explain all sorts of scientific principles.
Reader Reviews
I purchased this book for the science division of our home schooling studies. It is laid out very well and it's easy to understand. Using materials most people have around the house you can simply flip to the beginning and follow the headings for ideas. What can you use straws for? Try out the section on "Clutching at Straws", make an Oboe, balance scale, spear a potato, etc. Would you like to know other uses for lemon juice? Start on page 36. Keep going- check out soap suds, strings, paper cups, experiments with temperature, etc. Basically you get it, you could spend many great minutes or hours teaching your kids through hands on learning. Many of these can be done by an older child with very little help- a perfect solution to the "I'm bored" problem. Please- turn of the TV, electronic games. etc. and let them use their brains- actively. This is a wonderful book, one that every household would benefit from.
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