science

Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.

Presents a comprehensive guide for collaborative teaching in the middle school science classroom, and contains reproducible worksheets, assessment tools, lesson overviews, and library and general science skills.

Presents graphic adaptations of true stories about some of the world's greatest scientists, including Newton, Galileo, Bohr, and Heisenberg.

Explores the ways in which the scientific world is like the magical world depicted in the Harry Potter books, and examines the origins of magical thinking as expressed in myth, legend, and witchcraft.

Text and photographs provide instructions for experiments and activities involving water.

Provides instructions for a variety of simple experiments demonstrating the principles and properties of electricity and magnetism.

Presents information on how to develop a winning science project, discussing the scientific method, topic research, and display, and including fifty project ideas in the scientific disciplines of astronomy, biology, earth science, engineering, physical science, and mathematics.

Covers a broad spectrum of topics in the physical and life sciences to provide a foundation of basic scientific knowledge.

Examines strange science in nature and includes twenty hands-on experiments.

Looks at the technology all around us and then explains how it works; from lifting the hood of a car engine, checking inside a TV set, to discovering the power of invisible microwaves.