Every week millions of newspaper readers find out how good it feels to understand things -- things explained in the inventive Sunday strip You Can with Beakman & Jax by Jok Church. Each You Can book provides fifty science adventures that answer real questions from real kids. Presented in full-color with instructive graphics, easy-to-follow instructions, and a great sense of fun, these books furnish experiments that allow children to discover answers for themselves and encourage them to keep questioning and learning.
Every week millions of newspaper readers find out how good it feels to understand things -- things explained in the inventive Sunday strip You Can with Beakman & Jax by Jok Church. Each You Can book provides fifty science adventures that answer real questions from real kids. Presented in full-color with instructive graphics, easy-to-follow instructions, and a great sense of fun, these books furnish experiments that allow children to discover answers for themselves and encourage them to keep questioning and learning.
Includes experiments and explanations that answer questions about a variety of scientific and everyday topics, including acid rain and stomach acid, cameras and blinking, odors and perfume, and more.
The star of the television program Beakman's World answers questions, presents amazing facts, and performs experiments on a variety of scientific topics.
Alexander Graham Bell: dead. Madame Curie: dead. Galileo Galilei: dead. In this fun and fact-filled book, Beakman explains the accomplishments of 14 notable scientists from history. Along with a timeline of each life -- including significant personal and professional dates -- the book tells readers how each inventor made his or her discovery. The easy-to-read narrative also explains why the invention is important in an engaging style.
This is an educational guide which provides reviews of the best kid's websites, selected to help with homework projects, organised in colour-coded categories, including entertainment, history and geography, science and technology, art and nature. It offers explanations on how to use the Internet as a research tool and for communicating as well as advice on setting up your own website. A section for parents gives advice on ways to ensure that surfing the internet is safe and an educational experience for their child.
Forget about mad scientists and messy laboratories! This incredible, interactive guide for children showcases 101 absolutely awesome experiments you can do at home. Find out how to make a rainbow, build a buzzer, see sound, construct a circuit, bend light, play with shadows, measure the wind, weigh air, and create an underwater volcano. The astonishing variety of experiments are all very easy and entirely safe, with step-by-step text and everyday ingredients. Biology, chemistry, and physics are brought to life, showing budding young scientists that science is all around us all the time. As you have fun trying out experiments with friends and family, core scientific principles are presented in the most memorable way. With chapters covering important topics such as color, magnets, light, senses, electricity, and motion, the laws of science are introduced in crystal-clear text alongside specially commissioned full-color photography for children to understand. Follow in the footsteps of Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, and all the other great minds with 101 Great Science Experiments and learn the secrets of science you'll never forget.
