101 GREAT SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS - Hardcover

Ardley, Neil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1564584046 ISBN 13: 9781564584045

Publisher: DK Children, 1993

Synopsis

Step-by-step, illustrated instructions show children how to create projects out of everyday household items to illustrate basic scientific concepts, including how sound waves work, how a camera takes a picture, and the secret of invisible ink.

About this title

About the Author:

Neil Ardley was an English composer and author. At Bristol University he studied chemistry, piano, and saxophone in equal measure, and after graduating he wrote more than 100 books on music, technology, and science, including 101 Great Science Experiments, Eyewitness: Music, and How Things Work. By the time of his retirement he had sold around 10 million books. He died in 2004.

From Booklist:

Gr. 3-5. Many of these 101 science experiments are great, but there's also plenty of standard fare, such bottle gardens, construction of a circuit, and the perennial erupting volcano. What makes this book special is the clean, simple format with equally simple instructions. The experiments are grouped into 11 categories, including water and liquids, electricity, motion and machines, and the senses. Most of the experiments are laid out in seven steps or less. Crisp, color photographs and concise captions make each step easy to follow. Children of various ages are shown performing many of the procedures. A warning about being a safe scientist is fairly inconspicuous on the verso of the title page; a symbol for adult supervision is described there and appears throughout the text where cutting, heating, and potentially harmful substances are required. Young scientists should find plenty of ideas for experiments and activities that can be done with ordinary household items and found materials. Denia Hester

About this edition

• Publisher: DK Children
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1564584046
• ISBN 13: 9781564584045
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120