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Overview
This lavishly illustrated book is designed to help young people understand some of the science they use every day. Each of the 25 experiments includes a list of materials, easy-to-follow instructions, an explanantion of the scientific principle demonstrated and a ``Did You Know?'' section which offers additional scientific facts and information on each topic. All activities use ordinary things to make practical objects such as a camera, thermometer, spectroscope or a hand warmer.For developing young minds, the everyday world is full of big mysteries. How do telescopes make distant things close up? What are rainbows made of? Now, in this fun, fascinating science activities book, kids get the scientific explanations for these and dozens of other everyday mysteries while learning how to make useful objects out of ordinary things. Line drawings.
Editorials
Children's Literature -
Students will enjoy creating useful items they can use every day by following the directions provided. Diagrams and clear directions help students with each experiment.School Library Journal
Gr 4-6The first book offers 25 simple projects designed to help children explore the science behind the way ordinary things work, and is divided into 5 sections: light and optics, heat, earth science, chemistry, and electricity and magnetism. Directions are given for making useful objects, such as a kaleidoscope, refracting telescope, silver polish, bath salts, and a burglar alarm, out of common household materials. Silly Science illustrates scientific principles through 28 ``...seemingly useless experiments.'' Each has a clever, interest-catching title and introductory statement. For example, ``Foiled Again!'' uses aluminum foil and a penny to demonstrate the chemical process of corrosion, and ``Make It Snappy'' explores the effects of heat on the stretching properties of rubber bands. In both titles, each project has a list of materials needed, step-by-step instructions, a one-paragraph ``What Happened'' statement, and a ``Did You Know?'' section of factoids and related information. Safety warnings are incorporated into the directions. Some of the black-and-white illustrations relate to procedural set-ups, but most are simply decorative cartoons. Children will find the activities fun and easy to do, but it may take adult guidance to get them to focus on the ``What Happened'' sections and to expand on the brief information provided for an understanding of the principles involved.Carolyn Angus, The Claremont Graduate School, CABook Details
Published
May 19, 1995
Publisher
Jossey Bass
Pages
101
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780471110149