365 weird & wonderful science experiments : an experiment for every day of the year /
Three-hundred sixty-five weird and wonderful science experiments
Elizabeth Snoke Harris.
- Minneapolis : MoonDance Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource (259 pages) : color illustrations
Upside-down Glass of Water, Part 2.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Section I: Build It!; Make It; Make Bricks; Make a Light Bulb; Make a Chair; Make a Dam; Make Modeling Clay; Make Paper; Make a Stethoscope; Make a Cantilever; Make a Mummy; Make a Bridge; Make a Lava Lamp; Make a Wave Machine; Spinners and Shooters; Popsicle Stick Catapult; Want S'more Catapults?; Tennis Ball Shooter; Seed Spinners; Centripetal Spinner; Straw Spinner; Straw Propeller; Pocket Slingshot; Cars and Racers; Mousetrap Car; Balloon Car; Super Spool Racer; Totally Tubular Race Cars; Flying; Basic Paper Airplane; Paper Glider; Straw Glider. Balloon FlinkerHot-air Balloon; Sled Kite; Cool Diamond Kite; Paper Bag Kite; Perfect Parachute; Dragonfly Helicopter; Homemade Hovercraft; Rockets and Explosions; Stomp Rocket; Underwater Volcano; Ketchup Volcano; Drink Bottle Rocket; Geyser; Experi-mint Explosion; Water Bottle Rocket; Balloon Rocket; Lemon Juice Bottle Rocket; Tea Bag Rocket; Squeeze Rockets; Time; Chemical Clock; Hourglass; Equatorial Sundial; Liquid Hourglass; Pendulum Timer; Water Timer; Perception of Time; Section II: Brain and Body ; Balance and Center of Gravity; Touch Your Toes; Balancing Butterfly; Leg Lift; Chair Pickup. Bottle BumpBalancing Sculpture; Balance Forks on a Toothpick; Balancing Nails; Balancing a Soda Can; Balancing a Coin; Find Your Center of Gravity; Long and Thin Object; Flat Object; Senses; Blind Spot; Get Dizzy; Hear Here; Can You Smell Well?; Peripheral Vision; Remodel Your Ears; In the Dark; How Much Touch?; One Touch, Two Touch; Two Eyes or One?; Which Is Heavier?; Make Noise!; Air Horn; Balloon Amplifiers; Bottle Organ; Chicken in a Cup; Corrugahorn; Drums; Guitar; Hanger Gong; Harmonica; Megaphones; Rain Stick; Screaming Balloon; Singing Glasses; Singing Rod; Singing Straw. Soda Straw OboeWind Chime; Fool Your Brain; Floating Cube; False Memories; Floating Arm; Arch Illusion; Impossible Triangle; Invisible Triangle; X-ray Tube; Muller-Lyer Illusion; Proprioception; Stroop Effect; Size-weight Illusion; Thaumatrope; Upside-down Faces; Section III: Energy and Forces; Balls; Galileo's Ball Drop; Double Ball Drop; The Way the Ball Bounces; Racquetball Popper; Shoot the Moon; Cradle of Energy; Friction; Fun with Friction; Ball Bearings; Rollin' with Friction; Phonebook Friction; Sticky Rice; Science Friction; Inertia; A Penny for Your Bottle; Change-ing Tower. Don't Drop This EggStreak of Beads; Balancing Stick; Buckets of Dryness; Static Electricity; Sticky Balloons; Bending Water; Dancing Balloons; Levitating Tinsel; Spark Zapper; Salt and Pepper Pick-up; Gelatin Pick-up; Static Slime; Sticky Statics; Soda Can Electroscope; Electromagnetism; Nailed It Electromagnet; Floating Paper Clip; Magnetic Compass; Magnet Gun; Electromagnetic Train; Minute Motor; Magnetic Fruit; This Battery Is a Lemon; Holiday Light Circuits; Gassy Water; Homopolar Motor; Electromagnetic Motor; Air; Air Lift; Upside-down Glass of Water, Part 1.
There is always time to conduct science experiments, because science never sleeps! 365 Weird and Wonderful Science Experiments gives you a full year of kid-friendly experiments to try alone or supervised. This fact- and fun-filled book of science includes hundreds of simple, kid-tested science experiments. All of which can be done with items from around the house, and require little to no supervision!