Janice VanCleave's Super Science Challenges: Hands-On Inquiry Projects for Schools, Science Fairs, or Just Plain Fun! (Janice VanCleave's Science for Fun) - Softcover

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Janice VanCleave is a former science teacher who now spends her time writing and giving science workshops. She is the author of more than fifty children's science books with sales totaling over 2 million copies.

Von der hinteren Coverseite

Do you have what it takes to make anawesome balloon rocket?

Can you figure out how to grow areal crystal with just a fewhousehold ingredients?

Do you think you can design and build asolar cooker that really works?

This fun-filled resource will help you discover how to answer these questions and more, and in the process, come up with your own great science projects. Janice VanCleave's Super Science Challenges gives you the ideas and information you need to start experimenting in a range of topics from astronomy, biology, and chemistry to earth science and physics. You can use these science challenges as jumping-off points for science fairs or classroom projects, or just try them at home for fun. The book is designed to show you how to use science inquiry to solve an exciting challenge.

With Janice VanCleave's Super Science Challenges you will become a science detective who plans well, carefully collects and analyzes information, and creates amazing experiments. The book presents numerous science challenges, defines scientific terms, explains facts about each challenge, and shows how scientists solved a real-life science problem similar to the challenge. And all of the materials you'll need are inexpensive and easy to find around the house.