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64) Explore fossils!
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Presents teachers with a range of lessons and fun study plans for introducing students to the study of fossils and dinosaurs, as well as other prehistoric animals, plants, and microbes.
65) Kitchen science
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Shows how to turn your kitchen into a laboratory and perform all sorts of experiments with food, such as making sun tea, creating an acid/base tester, and gathering spores from mushrooms.
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Have you ever wondered what makes a kite fly or a boat float? Have you ever thought about why snowflakes are symmetrical, or why golf balls have dimples? Have you ever tried to make a kaleidoscope or build a pair of stilts? Temple Grandin explores the ideas behind all of those questions and more. She delves into the science behind inventions, the steps various people took to create and improve upon ideas as they evolved, and the ways in which young...
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Presents a collection of science projects young readers can complete outside ranging from making their own bubbles and homemade compass to creating a baking soda rocket and measuring the temperature with a homemade thermometer. Includes material lists, step-by-step instructions, access to further online projects, a glossary, resources for further information, and color photographs.
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Makerspaces are places designed to inspire creativity and collaboration. In Move It! Projects You Can Drive, Fly, and Roll, kids will make a mini helicopter fly from a circuit-controlled helipad, build a motorized LEGO car, and more! Colorful step-by-step photos bring each project to life. Techniques and tips help troubleshoot and use the materials within the makerspace.
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"Roots help keep plants alive. They take in water and minerals. But do you know how much of a plant is made up of its roots? Or whether roots always grow down? Let's experiment to find out! Learn more about plants in the Plant Experiments series--part of the Lightning Bolt Books collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt Books bring nonfiction topics to life!"--Provided by the publisher.
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"There's no place like home to start inspiring young scientists. The 52 labs in Kitchen Science Lab for Kids require no specialized equipment of dangerous chemicals. Instead they use materials most of us keep in our pantries--milk, aluminum foil, laundry detergent--to introduce fundamental principles of physics, chemistry, and biology. Calling on her experience in research labs and as a mom, author Liz Lee Heinecke has developed experiments that are...
78) Criminal destiny
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"A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment, and they must find a way to prove it to the rest of the world"--
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15 minutes or less: Modeling a chemical reaction ; Atoms can combine to form different molecules ; A model of the states of matter ; Atoms are mostly empty --
5 minutes or less: Are there water molecules in the air? ; Even molecules with many atoms are tiny ; Squeezing molecules ; Do water molecules respond to an electrical charge? ; Evaporation, temperature, and molecular speed.
Model a chemical reaction, discover how small a molecule is, and find...
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