science

Make a giant fountain from a soda pop bottle, write messages in invisible ink, and blow monster bubbles! Use readily available items and simple step-by-step instructions to create these amazing science projects. Discover the science behind each experiment, and have fun sharing with your friends and family. It squeezes, it stretches, it flows, it makes crystals—it's matter!.

Did you know you can make a rainbow in a jar? This book shows you how! Using simple materials and easy step-by-step instructions, young readers can explore the science behind this fun project.

"Readers will discover how they can use their talents, skills, and interests to help answer real-world questions and take an active role in the scientific community. Step-by-step instructions help readers sharpen their observation skills, create their own field journals, and get involved in hands-on projects of their own, from tracking butterfly migrations to hunting comets using archived telescope images."--Publisher.

Discusses some of the worlds most high-flying circus acts and the science behind them.

Contains facts about disgusting things, including bugs, bacteria, exploding bodies, and more.

A guide to lesson planning by way of "lesson imaging" for educators that features classroom examples, templates, and tips.

"A major goal of the ... science education reform effort [is] that students make sense of the natural and designed world by engaging in science and engineering practices ... [This book offers] ways to talk about and organize instruction to meet ... [this goal] ... The contributors include science education researchers and teachers who have explored these ideas in their own classrooms"--pages 4-5.

Explores eight science careers, and includes sidebars that encourage extended learning, online research, and critical thinking skills.

Temple Grandin explores how to experiment and how to think about inventing for young readers.

Why did Gandhi hate iodine? How did radium nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? A chronicle of the extraordinary stories behind one of the greatest scientific tools in existence: the periodic table.