Experiments Projects category: 574 books
by Torrey Maloof
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Everyone has questions about the world. Scientific practices, such as asking questions, analyzing, and doing experiments, help scientists answer those questions. This dynamic science book will help second-grade students learn all about the scientific method and how it helps scientists analyze the...
Biopunk
Solving Biotech's Biggest Problems in Kitchens and Garages
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Bill Gates recently told Wired that if he were a teenager today, he would be hacking biology. "If you want to change the world in some big way," he says, "that's where you should start-biological molecules."
The most disruptive force on the planet resides in DNA. Biotech...
Against Their Will
The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
During the Cold War, an alliance between American scientists, pharmaceutical companies, and the US military pushed the medical establishment into ethically fraught territory. Doctors and scientists at prestigious institutions were pressured to produce medical advances to compete with the perceived...
The Lab Rat Chronicles
A Neuroscientist Reveals Life Lessons from the Planet's Most Successful Mammals
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Discover What Rodents Know About the Good Life
What can the common laboratory rat tell us about being human? According to behavioral neuroscientist Kelly Lambert, a whole lot. Her twenty- five-year career conducting experiments that involve rats has led her to a surprising conclusion: Through...
DIY Satellite Platforms
Building a Space-Ready General Base Picosatellite for Any Mission
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Want to build your own satellite and launch it into space? It’s easier than you may think. The first in a series of four books, this do-it-yourself guide shows you the essential steps needed to design a base picosatellite platform—complete with a solar-powered computer-controlled assembly—tough...
From A to Z - Introduction To Your Microscope
MicroscopeMaster
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
“From A to Z - Introduction To Your MICROSCOPE" is intended to serve as a primary resource for students and those who are beginning to use microscopes. In the book, the author extensively covers various topics on microscopy in a bid to help the reader master the foundational principles of microscopy....
Life Science
First Grade Science Experiments
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Galileo for Kids
His Life and Ideas, 25 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Galileo, one of history's best-known scientists, is introduced in this illuminating activity book. Children will learn how Galileo's revolutionary discoveries and sometimes controversial theories changed his world and laid the groundwork for modern astronomy and physics. This book will inspire kids...
The Book of Massively Epic Engineering Disasters
33 Thrilling Experiments Based on History's Greatest Blunders
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
It’s hands-on science with a capital “E”—for engineering.
Beginning with the toppling of the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, to the destructive, laserlike sunbeams bouncing off London’s infamous “Fryscraper” in 2013, here is an illustrated tour...
Mondo Magnets
40 Attractive (and Repulsive) Devices and Demonstrations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Surprising and seemingly impossible effects result from the 40 experiments included in this fascinating science resource-all based on real magnetic physics. Each experiment-such as using a common refrigerator magnet to create a three-dimensional image or floating a magnet and carbon sheet in midair-is...
by David A. Adler
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Explore the fascinating field of magnetism with this interactive picture book for young learners.
Magnetism is all around us--even the earth is a giant magnet. A world without magnets would be a world without cell phones, computers, and more!
Trusted children's nonfiction author David...
by Nadia Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Roots help keep plants alive. They take in water and minerals. But do you know how much of a plant is made up of its roots? Or whether roots always grow down? Let's experiment to find out!
Learn more about plants in the Plant Experiments series—part of the Lightning Bolt Books™ collection....
by Katie Marsico
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
You probably know that electricity powers your computer and other electronics. But what is electricity? How does it work and where does it come from? Scientists have been asking questions about electricity for centuries. Does it come from frog muscles? Can magnets create electricity? How could people...
Microbes
Discover an Unseen World
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
If our vision improved one million times, we would be able to see microbes in the air, on our skin, in the soil, in water, and on food! In Microbes: Discover an Unseen World, readers journey through microscopic worlds that collide with our own on a daily basis to encounter bacteria, viruses, fungi,...