See for Yourself!: More Than 100 Amazing Experiments for Science Fairs and School Projects

by Vicki Cobb

Overview

With See For Yourself, budding scientists can wow their teachers and classmates (and maybe win a ribbon or two) by learning

• How to extract DNA from an onion
• How pigments from vegetables make dye
• How to make paper out of lint from a clothes dryer
• How to make a friend feel like he or she has a third hand
• What happens when you grow yeast in dandruff shampoo
• That tea and iron pills make excellent inks
• And much more!

See for Yourself includes experiments in the areas of chemistry, earth science, physical science, the human body, and technology, but the experiments all take their inspiration from very familiar places. The materials needed to execute the experiments can all be inexpensively purchased at the supermarket, the toy store, the hardware store, the stationery store, and the drugstore. Some of the experiments are quick and easy, while others are more challenging. Most include additional suggestions so that curious young scientists can keep on investigating.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781628731651
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	10/06/2010
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	17 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Vicki Cobb is the well-known author of more than eighty-five highly entertaining nonfiction books for children, including Bet You Can’t, which won the New York Academy of Sciences Children’s Science Book Award. Currently, she is president and founder of INK Think Tank: Nonfiction Authors in Your Classroom. She has won numerous awards, including a Sibert Honor and a special Lifetime Achievement Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of for the Advancement of Science in 2012. She lives in Greenburgh, New York.

Editorial Reviews

Gr 4–8—This accessible and often intriguing collection of activities and experiments has minor changes from the original edition (Scholastic Reference, 2001). An all-new introduction promotes science by including a list of reasons to love it, such as "it gives you an excuse to play." The experiments are grouped by their source of inspiration: humans, the supermarket, the toy store, drugstore, and hardware and stationery stores. "Yourself and Other Humans" focuses on the senses and other features. The store activities involve chemistry, physics, and biology. Each experiment has a "Method of Investigation" with numbered steps, a sequential list of supplies, and a culminating section of "Observations & Suggestions" for further inquiry. Highlighted sidebars give background information. Meant as a springboard to exploration, each experiment includes a list of keywords for further research. The indexes offer a variety of entry points including subject, discipline, and level of challenge. Cartoon-style illustrations are now in full color. Purchase this if you missed the first edition.—Carol S. Surges, McKinley Elementary School, Wauwatosa, WI

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