Fun Experiments with Electricity: Mini Robots, Micro Lightning Strikes, and More (Amazing Science Experiments)

Ives, Rob

ISBN 10: 1512432199 ISBN 13: 9781512432190

Publisher: Hungry Tomato ®, 2017

Synopsis

Make a robot from a toothbrush, send Morse code messages by telegraph, and create your own lightning! These amazing science projects use readily available items and have simple step-by-step instructions. Discover the science behind each quick experiment, and have fun showing your friends and family. It moves, it spins, it flashes, it glows―it's electricity!

About this title

About the Author

Rob Ives is a former math and science teacher and now a designer and paper engineer living in Cumbria, UK. He creates science- and project-based children's books, including Paper Models that Rock! and Paper Automata. He specializes in character-based paper animations and all kinds of fun and fascinating science projects, and often visits schools to talk about design technology and demonstrate his models.

Eva Sassin is a freelance illustrator born and bred in the buzzing city of London. She has always loved illustrating, whether it be scary, fun monsters or cute, sparkly fairies. She is constantly drawing and carries a sketchbook everywhere . . . she has even drawn on the back of receipts if she's forgotten it! Eva loves combining her characters with unusual textures to give them more depth and keep them interesting. In her free time, she travels around London to visit exhibitions and small cafes where she enjoys sketching up new ideas and characters. She is also a massive film buff!

Review

"Gr 3-6–Clear diagrams guide readers through the nine to 12 projects found in each of these books. A good mix of old favorites (cornstarch slime and a homopolar motor) are featured along with some neat new tricks (a lens made of ice and coffee filter chromatography). Occasional inconsistent language use (joss stick vs. incense stick in Forces and thumbtack vs. drawing pin in Electricity) reflects the series’s British origin and could lead to confusion. The series is better for the simpler experiments, as the instructions sometimes miss a beat―the origami airplane in Forces is extremely complicated to make, so much so that even the photo of the finished plane looks bunchy and uneven. Best for classroom or club use, as students will need to tinker and adjust to achieve success with some of these projects. VERDICT For schools and libraries with a large budget for STEM activity book series."―School Library Journal, Series Made Simple

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Edition details

• Publisher: Hungry Tomato ®
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1512432199
• ISBN 13: 9781512432190
• Binding: Library Binding
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Sassin Eva