science

Filled with science activities, jokes, and fun facts, 101 Ways to Gross Out Your Friends appeals to young scientists with an irreverent sense of humor. 101 Ways to Gross Out Your Friends features tons of gross-themed activities, jokes, and fun facts that not only entertain young readers, but also have a definitive scientific basis. From making slimy snot to gorilla poop, the hands-on activities mixed with funny jokes and how-to steps and descriptions make this title an engaging and delightfully gross way to introduce science to children.

"Olga wants to leave earth in search of Meh's home planet, but first she'll have to discover why Meh is acting so strange"--OCLC.

"Easy-to-follow instructions help kids discover how to make fluffy slime, galaxy slime, magnetic slime--even slime that glows in the dark. Readers will also learn about matter, polymers, magnetic fields, and chemical reactions--and meet some of the world's slimiest creatures"--Provided by publisher.

Text and illustrations present a collection of activities that look at the science behind plants and other living things.

This volume presents job profiles that describe work characteristics, education and training requirements, earnings and benefits, and much more.

It's easy to see why some people hate storms. They're big, loud, and often accompanied by rain. But without storms to distribute heat, the tropical regions of the Earth would be too hot--and the subpolar regions too cold.

Focuses on the inventors, entrepreneurs, and industrial scientists whose work fueled the 20th century's technological revolution. Topics include aviation and automobiles, mass media and the computer, and the invention of synthetic materials like nylon and synthetic rubber.

Explores what has been learned about human behavior over the past 100 years and how much more is yet to be discovered. Topics include psychoanalysis, eugenics, the brain, Dr. Sigmund Freud, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Harry Harlow on the power of love and conflict, and John B. Watson on the behaviorist movement.

Investigates the breakthroughs in surgery, vaccines, drugs and medical technology; medicine's new ethical questions; and assumptions about life and death. Topics include fighting disease, penicillin, insulin, surgery and organ transplants.