Inventions have solved problems for people all through history. Learn about the discovery of simple machines and how they have helped people work smarter through the centuries.
Introduces children to the various states of matter, explaining the properties of solids, liquids, and gases, how they are measured, and what role they play in everyday life.
"Features graphic novel illustrations, sidebars, youtube links, and a glossary of important vocabulary to bring the complex world of physics to life. Inquiry-based, age-appropriate projects include designing a skateboard park that maps the forces at work--both on the skateboarder and on the skateboard--and creating an electroscope to detect electric charges around your house or school"--Back cover.
Professor Astro Cat explains everything he knows about physics, offering an illustrated look at gravity, the scientific method, measurement, atoms, motion, forces, energy, electricity, magnetism, sound, and light.
This book simplifies the difficult concept of the Higgs mechanism through analogies to everyday experiences as well as pictures, diagrams, and intuitive explanations.
The first time the term ?tractor beam? was used was in 1931. Since then, tractor beams have been used in many science fiction books, movies, and TV shows to draw in spacecraft, people, and objects in space. This science fiction technology has become science fact. In 2015, scientists used sound waves to move tiny objects. Through reading about this and other modern technology, readers are engaged with incredible STEM information as well as their imaginations as they also learn the connections between this technology and popular science fiction.
Host Bill Nye answers questions about simple machines such as "What are simple machines?;" "How do simple machines help us work?;" and "What is a wheel?.".
