scientific recreations

Suggests simple experiments that demonstrate facts about chemical reactions, energy, motion, light, sound, air, water, magnetism, electricity, electronics, and computers.

Presents a variety of activities, projects, and experiments that help to illustrate and explain all sorts of scientific principals.

Contains a selection of hands-on science activities designed to help students in grades one through four learn how the senses work, and how to use the five senses to explore the properties of matter.

Explores such topics in physics as levers, friction, heat transmission, and density with experiments using common household utensils.

A collection of science experiments that use affordable, easy-to-find materials to teach children basic scientific concepts, with step-by-step instructions and full color photographs for each activity.

Presents a variety of activities, projects, and experiments that help to illustrate and explain all sorts of scientific principles.

Describes twenty-eight experiments involving Styrofoam coffee cups, aluminum foil, money, static electricity, potatoes, sand, spaghetti, and balloons.