Award-winning author Robert Gardner comes to the rescue of busy students everywhere. Each experiment follows the scientific method, and is designed to be completed in under an hour. Readers will discover how to weigh air, estimate the volume of matter, and the science of why water holds together. There are also ideas for more science experiments if readers have extra time.
"Find out how nearly all matter exists as one of three main states: solid, liquid, or gas. What is the difference between them, and how can materials change from one state to another? ... Includes three simple activities or experiments to try."--Page 4 of cover.
A valuable, one-stop guide to collection development and finding ideal subject-specific activities and projects for children and teens. For busy librarians and educators, finding instructions for projects, activities, sports, and games that children and teens will find interesting is a constant challenge. This guide is a time-saving, one-stop resource for locating this type of information—one that also serves as a valuable collection development tool that identifies the best among thousands of choices, and can be used for program planning, reference and readers' advisory, and curriculum support. Build It, Make It, Do It, Play It! identifies hundreds of books that provide step-by-step instructions for creating arts and crafts, building objects, finding ways to help the disadvantaged, or engaging in other activities ranging from gardening to playing games and sports. Organized by broad subject areas—arts and crafts, recreation and sports (including indoor activities and games), and so forth—the entries are further logically organized by specific subject, ensuring quick and easy use.
Do your readers wait until the last minute to start their science project? Don't worry, award-winning author Robert Gardner has everyone covered. Each experiment in this book follows the scientific method, and can be completed in an hour or less. Readers explore using levers to control motion and lift, and how the steepness of inclined planes affects the force needed to move something. Most experiments also include ideas for science fair projects, in case readers have more time than they originally thought.
Describes experiments involving simple machines that follow the scientific method, explores the use of levers to control motion and lift, and shows how the steepness of inclined planes affects the force needed to move something.
Do your students wait until the last minute to get started on Science projects? No problem. Each experiment in this resource follows the scientific method, and can be completed in an hour or less. Readers will model a chemical reaction, discover how small a molecule is, and find out what happens when atoms jump from one molecule to another. Most experiments also include ideas for science fair projects in case your readers have extra time.
Devised to help teachers of primary science in schools. This title offers a two-year age band structure, correlation to the QCA Scheme of Work, and recommended teaching times. The Overview page is to introduce the themes in the unit. Review page is meant to assess learning. The Teacher Resource Books contain structured lesson plans.
The multi-coloured edition of the books has been revised and updated in a lucid language. Project work at the end of each chapter lays emphasis on the learning by doing methodology. Unit Test Paper and Model Test Paper have been included.
