These science project books provide kids with hands-on science activities and great ideas for easy experiments.
Here are more than 175 science demonstrations that work using nothing more than ordinary household objects. No special equipment or fancy apparatus needed, yet the results are dramatic and the learning is fun!
The activities in Showy Science are clustered around scientific concepts and principles that are closely related to elementary and junior high school science curricula. It is an excellent supplementary hands-on activity guide that can make science lessons fun and meaningful. Additionally, the principles taught have application to other common life activities. For example, simple siphon activities can lead to making a bean-sprout-growing device and self-watering devices for house plants.
Ordinary household objects are the major resource for these activities. Even a simple science apparatus costs some money, and many teachers, parents, and students are reluctant to buy an apparatus to conduct just one scientific investigation. Ordinary objects such as pop bottles and jars are economical, abundant, and easy to handle.
Even though this is a science project experiment book for elementary and intermediate grades, lay people will find it interesting. Various activities such as different methods of propagating house plants and building self-refilling bird baths are intriguing solutions to everyday problems. My ultimate goal was to present science in a fun and interesting way.
Author,
Hy Kim
Introduction
The activities in Showy Science cover a variety of science topics, allowing you to explore the air, water, earth, and animals around you, as well as forces that act upon you. You can do many of the activities alone or with adult help, but a great number of them will be more fun if you demonstrate them for your family, friends, or classmates.
Each activity includes:
- A list of things you will need to perform the activity
- Illustrations to help you as you as you work
- The reasons behind the results of each activity
- Information and terms to help you expand your scientific knowledge
Contents
- Activities for Exploring Air
- Activities for Exploring Water
- Activities for Exploring Animals
- Activities for Exploring Plants
- Activities for Exploring Microbes
- Activities for Exploring Gravity, Motion, and Other Forces
- Activities for Exploring Earth
- Activities for Exploring Light
Children will explore water, air animals, plants, microbes, gravity and motion, earth, and light as they "show off" scientific principles for their classmates and friends. There are step-by-step directions and careful explanations of the scientific principles--all written in everyday language so that children can understand and explain what they have produced and witnessed.
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