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
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Year: 2,011
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Pages In File: 146
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Language: English
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Topic: 178
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Identifier: 9,780,756,671,983
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Org File Size: 48,696,428
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Extension: pdf
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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