Discusses the scientific and technological principles involved in the manufacture of such school supplies as paper, ink, pencils, chalk, glue, and erasers. Includes experiments and formulas for making your own supplies.
Briefly discusses the history of cosmetics and gives instructions for experiments which show how and why cosmetics such as shampoo, toothpaste, soap, and nail polish work.
Discusses the methods used by paleontologists to decipher clues found in ancient bones and fossils which provide our only means of learning how dinosaurs lived and then became extinct.
Describes how to make photographs that reveal information about the apparent movement of the stars, the nature of the earth's crust, the interaction of roadrunners and rattlesnakes, and other scientific phenomena.