Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #230841 in Books
• Published on: 1998-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

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

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Description

Illustrated by Frances Zweifel * This companion to the popular 365 Simple Science Experiments fills a whole new year with fun, easy and educational hands-on experiments. Kids will learn basic scientific concepts, covering everything from nature, physics, time, chemistry and space. * The fundamentals of science are brought to life in an informative and colorful text that children ages seven and up can easily follow by themselves. Simple, clear and safe instructions explain the experiments all of which use everyday materials found in most homes. * Projects range from mastering helicopter flight with a pencil and piece of cardboard to building bird-nests, preserving spider webs and constructing a "cigar box" guitar (to understand sound waves). * More than 700 lively illustrations give visual aids to help set up the experiments.

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Just like any real scientist, you'll learn by conducting experiments and observing the results, and though there are enough projects to last all year, the knowledge you gain will last a lifetime.

- Inexpensive and easy to find materials
- Brief instructions
- Thoroughly tested experiments
- Safety guidelines
- Over 700 instructive illustrations
- Themed sections

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Make a foundation from a can and learn about water pressure. Float a glass in water and learn the principle of displacement (discovered by Greek mathematicians Archimedes). heat an egg in hot water and actually see evidence of the molecules escaping through the shell. Drop marbles into a glass of water and prove that two forms of matter cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Use a straw to demonstrate air pressure. Make a parachute to understand a law of physics. Amaze your friends by sticking pins in an inflated balloon without popping it, and then conduct an experiment to show them why 1 plus 1 does not equal 2.

In 365 more Simple Science Experiments, you'll know exactly what to do, what happens and why. So whether it's understanding gravity, becoming a kitchen alchemist, designing a rocket, or telling time by the sun, the moon, or the stars, you'll see that being a scientist doesn't just make the world a better place - it's also great fun. Following are just a few of the fascinating experiments you'll find inside:

- Launch your own astronauts
- Catching sound
- Musical nails
- Pendulum sand painting
- Maple snow sugar
- Milking a potato
- How to make vinegar
- Poached egg physics
- Crazy cave icicles
- The amazing humm-o-comb
- Find the center of gravity
- A gyroscope in your pocket

Table of Contents

Introduction

Beating the heat

- Make a Foil Lamp Shade
- Step on a Crack
- Day and Night in a Can
- Decorate a Hat
- Melt a Kiss
- Color Me Warm
- Birds on a Wire

Why Is There Air?

- The Collapsing Bottle
- The Wonderful Whistle-Stick
- The Talking Coin
- The Incredible Shrinking Face
- Launch Your Own Astronauts
- The Trick Straw Race
- The Collapsing Tent
- Make a parachute
- The Singing Balloon
- The Rising Notebook Trick
- Air-Head Person
- Real String Soap in a Bottle
- Underwater Eggspert
- Acupuncture Balloon
- "Boil, Boil Magical Water"

Water, Water, Everywhere!

- "I Was Here First!"
- Flowing Fountain
- Two Water Towers
- "I Think I'll Eat Worms"
- The Power of Water
- Ice Boat Float
- The Floating Glass
- Disappearing Salt
- "Freeze Me and I'll Burst!"
- 1 + 1 Does Not Always = 2
- "Give Me Room!"
- The Shrinking Molecule
- Shy Blue
- More Than Enough
- Water "Glue"
- Stick Together, Stay Together
- Fishing for "Clippies"
- Water-Drop Art
- Oil versus Water

- Make a Waterwheel
- Deep-Bottle Diver
- The Warm and Cold of It
- Make a Purple People-Eater

Seeing the Light

- Sometimes Bigger Is Better
- Make Your Own Movie Screen
- The Reappearing Penny
- Big Bold Letters
- Amazing 3-Ring Light Show

Sounds Like Fun

- Deep "C", High "C"
- Catching Sound
- The Amazing Hum-o-comb
- Was It Ripped or Torn?
- Make Your Own Sound Studio
- The Silence of Snow
- Cigar-Box Guitar
- Dance, Sprinkles, Dance
- Natural Vibrations
- Musical Nails
- Make a Megaphone
- Dancing Cereal Puffs
- Wild Animal Calls

A Matter of Gravity

- Feel the Force
- Which Drops Faster?
- Find the Center of Gravity
- Wacky Ball
- Anti-Gravity Magic

Physics Mix

- The Deep, Dark Hole
- A Gyroscope in Your Pocket
- The Kissing Balloons
- Make a Balloon Rocket
- The Magic Water Bucket
- The Pendulum Sand Painting

It's Crystal Clear

- Sparkling Soda
- Astronomical White Asteroids
- Crazy Cave Icicles
- The Diamond Mine
- Blue Moon Rocks
- Rocky Mountains
- The Gem Show
- Hi, Sugar!

The Lab: CO2 and You

- Dynamite Dumplings
- How to Make a Manometer
- The Care and Use of Your Manometer
- CO2 Uplift

Kitchen Alchemy

- Spicy Infusion
- Give An Infusion Party
- Butter Me Up
- "Emulsional" about Mayonnaise
- In a Pickle
- Atoms Apple
- Lemon Aide
- Herb Dressing: To Be or Not to Be?
- I Scream!
- Endothermic Frozen Treat: Cranberry Lemon Snow
- Maple Snow Sugar
- Batter on the Moon
- I've Got a Crush on You

Food For Thought

- Tasting through Your Nose
- Some Like it Hot
- Wilting a Cucumber
- Too Many Potato Chips!
- Too Salty!
- What Pot?
- Which Boils Faster - Salted or Plain Water?
- Poached Egg Physics
- Salt Versus the Sweet Stuff
- Freezing Salt and Sugar
- The Candy Trap
- The Cookie Test

Green Broccoli and Other Vegetables

- The Vegetable Game
- How to Feed Celery
- Storing Carrots
- No Way to Treat a Lettuce
- Taming an Onion
- Taking the Starch Out of a Potato!
- Potato Race
- Milking a Potato
- Potato Soup
- Why Do Some Vegetables Smell Bad?
- Keeping of the Green
- Looking Good but Feeling Rotten!
- Cold or Hot
- Keeping a Lid On
- There Must Be a Better Way!
- Colorful Carrot
- About Legumes
- Culling
- Tough Cook, Tender Beans
- Sprouting Beans

Fruit of the Vine and Other Places

- Bite or Bake?
- Bursting an Apple
- Apple in a Cookie Jar
- One end is sweeter!
- How to Ripen a Fruit
- Getting Juice from a Lemon
- Rescuing an Apple
- Not in the Refrigerator
- Powerful Pineapple
- Currying Flavor with a Lime
- How to Make Vinegar

Grain: The Staff of Life

- What is Toast?
- Science for Breakfast
- Why Not Eat Flour Raw?
- Popping Popcorn
- Gluten: The Sticky Story
- Popovers: Gluten in Action
- Hidden Sugar
- Alice's Magic Pill
- The Sugar Eater
- Just Right
- The Pizza Test
- About Baking Soda
- About Baking Powder
- Powder Versus Soda
- Model Muffins
- Weather and Cookies

Making Food Last

- Hocus-Pocus-Raisins
- Freezing Herbs
- To Freeze or Not to Freeze
- Preserving a Pear
- Little Miss Muffet

Talking About Time

- Now and Then
- Time to Wake Up
- The Time of Your Life
- How Long Is a Minute?

Telling Time by the Moon

- Calendar Timeline
- Moon Time
- Different Drummers
- String Calendar
- Perpetual Calendar
- The Wobbly Week

Telling Time by the Sun

- Sundial Timeline
- Where Does My Shadow Go?
- Why Am I Sometimes Very Tall?
- Shadow Watch
- Shadow Temperature
- What's the Angle?
- Hand Dial
- Time Zones

Cloudy Day and Night Timetellers

- Cloudy Day Timeline
- Candle Timekeeper
- By A Nose!
- Water Clock
- Having It Both Ways
- A Knotty Problem
- Hourglass Timekeepers
- Invent Your Own Clock

Telling Time by the Stars

- Star Timeline
- Cereal Box Planetarium
- The Sky As Compass
- Star Map
- Some Timetelling Stars
- Star Time

Mechanical Clocks

- Mechanical Clock Timeline
- Yo-Yo Clock
- Get in Gear
- Why Clocks Count to Twelve
- Jewel As Cushions
- Pendulum Clocks
- Railroad Timetable
- Daylight Savings Time
- International Date Line

Super Clocks

- Super Clock Timeline
- Electric Clocks
- Make an Electric Motor
- Charged!
- Coin Battery
- Quartz Crystal Clocks
- The Piezoelectric Effect
- Digital Clocks
- Glowing in the Dark
- Timing the Past: The Radioactive Clock
- Atomic Clocks
- Time Machines - and More

Under Ground

- Rock and Roll
- It's a Dirty Job...