matter

Provides a scientific investigation of temperature, explaining how it is measured, its effects on weather, and its impact on states of matter. Includes related experiments.

"Simple text and full color photographs introduce beginning readers to gravity. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.

Examines how things change in nature.

Contains experiments that explain how matter is composed of tiny molecules bonded to one another and how these molecules expand and contract, causing matter to take different forms.

Introduces students to the basic properties of atoms and molecules and examines the role they play in daily life.

Describes and gives examples of energy one can feel, see, and hear, and explains that all energy comes from matter.

Discusses the nature, constitution, properties, and behavior of matter in its various solid, liquid, and gaseous forms.

Explains the science of solids, liquids, and gases, discussing what they are, and looking at their various properties and characteristics. Includes a glossary.

". . . explore the definition of matter and the different states of matter, plus the stuff in our world that isn't matter, such as sound and light"--Back cover.

Make a simple refrigerator like pottery-maker Mohammed Bah Abba did that does not use electricity, or create little models of people out of ice like sculptor Nele Azevedo.