Science Rocks!: Unleash The Mad Scientist In You

E-Book Overview

Conduct 120 exciting science experiments with this award-winning activity book for kids. The ultimate collection of eye-popping, jaw-dropping science experiments for kids by science supremo, Robert Winston. Designed for kids to carry out safely and easily from home, with more than 350 engaging photographs and illustrations to help you explore the world of science first-hand! This kid's book offers a winning combination of the fascinating and the factual. Every experiment features step-by-step visual and text instructions and crystal-clear explanations of how the science works. Go back to basics with easy examples, including blowing gigantic bubbles, making colorful crystals, and launching explosively fun bottle rockets. Then move on to trickier activities using light and electricity, such as fashioning a flashlight or creating a homemade radio that you could dial into signals with! This book breathes fresh life into science for kids through spectacular first-hand experiences. Remember, practice makes perfect, so you can repeat the experiments to test your own results and keep learning. Most of the demonstrations in this educational book call for every day, affordable materials that you likely already have around the house, others might require a trip to a hardware store. Budding scientists, the fun starts here! Test – Learn – Enjoy The Science! Make enormous bubbles at home, launch a bottle rocket, or make your own radio. Science gives us an understanding of where we come from, the animals and plants around us and affects every aspect of our lives. It starts with experiments, to explore the nature of things around us. Find your inner mad scientist with some devilishly fun experiments like: - Ice cloud - Cabbage indicator - Fizzy fountain - Violent volcano - And much, much more! Check out other excellent science titles in the DK collection next, like The STEAM Team, Ask A Scientist, and more.

E-Book Information

  • Year: 2,011

  • Pages In File: 146

  • Language: English

  • Topic: 178

  • Identifier: 9,780,756,671,983

  • Org File Size: 48,696,428

  • Extension: pdf

  • Toc: Contents 4 8 Introduction 10 The Material world 12 Changed state 13 Ice cloud 14 Ice bubbles 15 Mega bubble 16 Crystal creation 18 Bigger bubbles 20 Liquid layers 21 How dense is it? 22 Float your boat 23 Dunking diver 24 Fizzy fountain 26 Slime time 27 Fantastic plastic 28 Butter it up 29 Holding it together 30 Cycle centrifuge 31 True colors 32 Oxidation station 33 Rotten apple 34 Elephant’s toothpaste 36 Turn water pink 37 Cabbage indicator 38 Violent volcano 40 Copper plating 41 Spruce up silver 42 Forces and moTion 44 Dome, sweet dome 46 Launch a bottle rocket 48 Gravity-defying water 49 Puzzling pendulums 50 Air-resisting eggs 51 Balancing act 52 Fly a dart 53 Float a glider 54 Balloon hovercraft 56 Rubber band drag racer 58 Ice water can crusher 59 Flowing fountain 60 Eggs-periencing air pressure 61 Under pressure 62 Suck it to ‘em 64 Make a soda shoot 66 Blast a two-stage rocket 68 Hydraulic lifter 70 Weightlifting 71 Spreading the load 72 energy in action 74 Convection curre