Science Experiments Index For Young People

Science Experiments Index for Young People Mary Anne Pilger LIBRARIES UNLIMITED Science Experiments Index for Young People This Page Intentionally Left Blank Science Experiments Index for Young People Third Edition Mary Anne Pilger 2002 LIBRARIES UNLIMITED A Division of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. Englewood, Colorado & Copyright © 2002 Mary Anne Pilger All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Libraries Unlimited A Division of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. P.O. Box 6633 Englewood, CO 80155-6633 1-800-237-6124 www.lu.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pilger, Mary Anne. Science experiments index for young people / Mary Anne Pilger.-- 3rd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-56308-899-1 1. Science--Experiments--Juvenile literature--Indexes. I. Title. Q182.3 .P55 2001 016.507'8--dc21 2001054369 Contents Dedication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Subject Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Key to Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxx ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF ENTRIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Books Indexed by Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Books Indexed by Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 v This Page Intentionally Left Blank Dedication I dedicate this book to my brother, Dr. Robert D. Farrell, for his love and kindness to me all these many years. Acknowledgments I thank Mary Ann Still for this book and the others. She is a marvelous, bright, energetic, and kind person. She is the best. vii This Page Intentionally Left Blank Introduction A child is surrounded by a living, moving, exciting world of happenings, and a child has many questions needing answers. Ice crackles, snowflakes plop, smoke is blue, green, yellow; flames are blue, red, yellow, white; things go up in the air and down in the air; sparks fly from pavements; worms disappear like lightning down a hole; chipmunks pop up here and then over there; sticks float, rocks sink; an eye sees, an ear hears, a mouth tastes, skin feels. Investigating science means finding answers to questions. The scientific investigation, the scientific process—what do they mean to children? The child has a question and needs an answer; he or she needs to know what to do to get the answer. Children may be unaware that the process of questioning, doing, and finding out will further their knowledge of the subject or that their knowing will lead to more complex questions. The scientific process is inherent in children and their curiosity. It is an ongoing process—finding answers to their problems, finding information and methods or ways to test