Junk Drawer Biology: 50 Awesome Experiments That Don't Cost a Thing
 

Junk Drawer Biology will demonstrate that you don't need high-tech equipment to make learning fun—just what you can find in your recycling bin and around the house. Science educator Bobby Mercer provides readers with hands-on experiments to explain the building blocks of living matter for children of all ages. The projects can be modified to meet the skill levels of the children doing them, from elementary school kids to teenagers. Though each challenge includes suggested materials and one step-by-step, illustrated solution, children are encouraged to think further come up with more questions to answer. Educators and parents will find this title a handy resource to teach children while having a lot of fun.

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Junk Drawer Biology: 50 Awesome Experiments That Don't Cost a Thing
 

Junk Drawer Biology will demonstrate that you don't need high-tech equipment to make learning fun—just what you can find in your recycling bin and around the house. Science educator Bobby Mercer provides readers with hands-on experiments to explain the building blocks of living matter for children of all ages. The projects can be modified to meet the skill levels of the children doing them, from elementary school kids to teenagers. Though each challenge includes suggested materials and one step-by-step, illustrated solution, children are encouraged to think further come up with more questions to answer. Educators and parents will find this title a handy resource to teach children while having a lot of fun.

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Junk Drawer Biology: 50 Awesome Experiments That Don't Cost a Thing

Junk Drawer Biology: 50 Awesome Experiments That Don't Cost a Thing

by Bobby Mercer
Junk Drawer Biology: 50 Awesome Experiments That Don't Cost a Thing

Junk Drawer Biology: 50 Awesome Experiments That Don't Cost a Thing

by Bobby Mercer

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Junk Drawer Biology will demonstrate that you don't need high-tech equipment to make learning fun—just what you can find in your recycling bin and around the house. Science educator Bobby Mercer provides readers with hands-on experiments to explain the building blocks of living matter for children of all ages. The projects can be modified to meet the skill levels of the children doing them, from elementary school kids to teenagers. Though each challenge includes suggested materials and one step-by-step, illustrated solution, children are encouraged to think further come up with more questions to answer. Educators and parents will find this title a handy resource to teach children while having a lot of fun.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781641602921
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 06/02/2020
Series: Junk Drawer Science , #6
Sold by: INDEPENDENT PUB GROUP - EPUB - EBKS
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
Lexile: 860L (what's this?)
File size: 7 MB
Age Range: 9 - 12 Years

About the Author

 
Bobby Mercer has been a high school physics teacher for over two decades. He is the author of the Junk Drawer Scienceseries, including Junk Drawer Physics and Junk Drawer Chemistry. He lives with his family outside of Asheville, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction ix

1 The Human Body 1

Dominant Eye 1

Blind Spot 3

Hole in Your Hand 6

Little Baby Carrot Finger 8

Upside Down Eyeball 9

Movie Time 11

Blink and You Might Miss It 15

Shine a Light 16

What Big Ears You Have 19

Inflation to Breathe 23

Pump Up the Volume 29

The Hardest Working Muscle 32

Hardworking Heart 35

Rubber Bones 39

Flexible Spine 41

Rubber Muscles 44

That Tastes Great 50

Thumbs Up 53

Cool Me Off 55

2 Plants and Animals 59

Bird Beaks 59

Recycled Insect Model 63

Tasty Insect Models 69

The Itsy-Bitsy Tasty Spider 73

Junk Drawer Plant 76

Little Sprout 79

Walking Water 82

Bean Seed Dissection 87

Breathing Leaf 90

Colorful Leaves 93

Sweating Plants 99

Double Up 102

Tap into This 105

3 Cells and Genetics 111

Junk Drawer Cell Model 111

Gummy Bear Osmosis 115

Smelly Diffusion 117

The Incredible Growing Glow-in-the-Dark Egg 120

The Incredible Shrinking Glow-in-the-Dark Egg 124

Play-Doh Mitosis 130

Play-Doh Meiosis 134

Pipe Cleaner Nerves 141

Candy DNA 145

DNA Extraction 150

Cereal Proteins 156

Paper Clip Punnett Square 159

4 Biology Tools 167

Classification Cards 167

Dichotomous School Supplies 170

Pedigree Charts 174

Homemade Stethoscope 177

Silica Gel, the Magnifier 184

Smartphone Microscope 187

Glossary 193

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