Experiments And Projects category: 324 books
Herbal Adventures
Backyard Excursions and Kitchen Creations for Kids and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
“A real gem…a perfect beginners’ book no matter your age.”
—Rosemary Gladstar, herbalist and author
In Herbal Adventures, you’ll pull on your boots and discover the magical plants that are growing just beyond your door. Explore nearby parks, fields, and forests, then make all sorts...
by John Green
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
The human body is an infinitely complex marvel of fine design, superbly adapted to its functions. A host of specialized organs, bones, muscles, nerve fibers, blood vessels, and other anatomical features work together in harmony to maintain the network of interrelated body systems necessary to maintain...
Whoosh!
Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
A cool idea with a big splash
You know the Super Soaker. It’s one of top twenty toys of all time. And it was invented entirely by accident. Trying to create a new cooling system for rockets, impressive inventor Lonnie Johnson instead created the mechanics for the iconic toy.
A love...
Burn
Michael Faraday's Candle
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
JUVENILE CHRISTMAS LECTURES AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION
MICHAEL FARADAY'S ORIGINAL LECTURE, NOW IN PICTURE BOOK FORMAT!
Solid wax is somehow changed into light and heat. But how? Travel back in time to December 28, 1848 in London, England to one of the most famous juvenile science Christmas...
Nefertiti, the spidernaut
The Jumping Spider Who Learned to Hunt in Space
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2016
THE AMAZING VOYAGE OF NEFERTITI, THE SPIDERNAUT --
Most spiders spin a web and passively wait for prey to come to them. Jumping spiders, by contrast, actively hunt by jumping to catch their food. What if a jumping spider was sent to the International Space Station? When it jumped, it would...
The Racecar Book
Build and Race Mousetrap Cars, Dragsters, Tri-Can Haulers & More
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A project book for young readers with a need for speed, this work provides instruction on 25 easy-to-construct racecars that can be driven both indoors and out. They will learn how to use mousetraps, rubber bands, chemical reactions, gravity, and air pressure to power the cars that are made for little...
by Heather E. Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Take an in-depth peek at the life of legendary Pocahontas , the famous historical figure who helped create peace between the American Indians and European settlers. With the Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend e-Book, students will examine what happened with John Smith and the daughter of Chief Powhatan,...
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Picture Book Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Now a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village.
When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all...
A World in a Drop of Water
Exploring with a Microscope
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Within every drop of pond water lurks an invisible world, alive with an amazing variety of microscopic animals. And with the help of this book and a microscope, you can bring these tiny creatures into focus and discover the ways in which they live.
You'll trace the path of a blob-like amoeba as it...
Eat Your Science Homework
Recipes for Inquiring Minds
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Hungry readers discover delicious and distinct recipes in this witty companion to Eat Your Math Homework*.*
Beginning with an overview of the scientific method and a primer in lab (sorry, kitchen) safety, this light-hearted cookbook will inspire a hunger for knowledge! A main text explains...
by Cynthia Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
With 10,000 words and almost 100 illustrations, Fizzyx For Fun presents Newton's Physics to middle school students in a way that is entertaining, accessible and gender-neutral—even fun!
As the contents of Fizzyx for Fun meet many of the Prescribed Science Learning Outcomes for Grades 6 - 9 for many,...
by Torrey Maloof
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
With the George Washington and the Men Who Shaped America e-Book, students will learn more about the commander and the leader who helped others found America. This rigorous informational text profiles the first president of the United States of America, during his early days in Mount Vernon, as he...
by Andrea Beaty
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
For curious young minds who ask why? how? what? when? and then why? again and again, the bestselling team behind Ada Twist, Scientist has developed a STEM project book based on the beloved character. Ada herself will take readers through the scientific method and introduce them to some of her favorite...
by Jody Jensen Shaffer
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Explore the life of this self-educated mathematician, scientist, astronomer, and civil rights advocate with the Benjamin Banneker: Self-Made Man e-Book. This informational text profiles the life of the man who worked hard to educate himself and became an almanac writer and land surveyor for the nation's...