Experiments using common household items illustrate the principles of sound, electricity and magnets, weather, and simple chemistry.

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

Provides instructions for making seventy-five contraptions that demonstrate friction, gravity, energy, motion, and other principles of physics and explains how to think like an inventor.

Provides practical science experiments and projects designed to be completed at home with safe, everyday ingredients.

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.

"Kids love to be grossed out. And now the doyenne of disgusting, Joy Masoff, lets kids get their hands dirty--really dirty--with 114 interactive ick-speriments and ick-tivities that delve into the science behind everything disgusting. Its this A-Z compendium, kids can stage an Ooze Olympics to demonstrate viscosity. Observe how fungi grow by making a Mold Zoo"--

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

Provides instructions for 200 experiments in biology, chemistry, physics, earth science, and astronomy.

Photographs and easy-to-follow text introduce young readers to structures.

They say elephants never forget. Once you read this book, neither will you! Brian P. Cleary has tips for tackling all types of tricky science facts. This book is bursting with acrostics, acronyms, poems, songs, and more. Need to keep track of the order of the planets? Mel can help. As in: Mel's Very Excited Ma Just Served Us Nachos." How about photosynthesis? Sing a song about it to the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boat"! And better yet, you'll get...