physical sciences

"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.

Learn the basic concepts of electricity: positive and negative charges, current flow, open/closed circuits and what shocks are. Includes a hands-on activity.

"Looks at individuals who are making a major difference in this field (physical science). Compelling text, full-color photos, and helpful back matter highlight these women and their work. Features include a table of contents, a glossary, additional resources, and an index"--Amazon.com.

Some of the coolest science information in our world is out of it, in space. From how the celestial bodies move around our solar system to people’s ability to travel in it, space science is endlessly fascinating. It’s also an incredible vehicle for physics learning. In this book, readers learn about space, light and sound, machines, and forces in an engaging format that introduces each new concept with a real-life, surprising fact.

Chemical reactions are happening all around us–and inside our bodies. From a scab forming on a cut to the creation of carbon dioxide as a waste product, there are so many ways chemistry plays a part in how the human body works. Each spread of this colorful book offers readers a fascinating or surprising fact about popcorn, flour, or other familiar items and relates it to chemistry in understandable and age-appropriate language.

Learn about types of fossils, how they form, where they are found, and what they teach us about animals and plants.

Investigates the manmade materials that make up our modern world and the rarest materials in the natural world, from a planet five-times as large as Earth made purely of diamond to manmade graphene, the toughest, thinnest, most-flexible material known to man.