| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
144 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 143) and index. |
| Summary |
Try fun experiments at home and get to the bottom of urban legends. |
| Contents |
Doing the experiments/safety issues -- Did a Ming Dynasty astronaut launch himself into space with a rocket? Experiment: Making a simple rocket -- Will whispering sweet nothings to a plant cause them to grow better? Experiment: Giving an IQ test to a pet -- Can a swallowed octopus egg grow to full-size inside a person's stomach? Experiment: Seeing how food begins to be digested -- Is the daddy longlegs the world's most venomous spider? Experiment: Preserving a spider's web -- Do bacteria from the toilet settle in toothbrushes? Experiment: Growing a germ garden -- Will a person get wetter running or walking in the rain? Experiment: Making it rain in the kitchen -- Will a sinking ship suck you down? Experiment: Finding out what factors cause an object to sink or float -- How many balloons are needed to lift a small child off the ground? Experiment: Testing how much weight helium balloons can lift -- Does a duck's quack echo? Experiment: Comparing how sounds are reflected off different surfaces -- Can a toy car beat a real car in a gravity slope race? Experiment: Racing toy cars to find out how gravity, weight, and friction affect outcome -- Will the rhythm of soldiers marching together cause a bridge to collapse? Experiment: Making a pendulum to see the power of resonance -- Did archimedes set fire to a fleet of ships using only mirrors and sunlight? Experiment: Testing the reflecting power of surfaces -- Did ancient people have batteries? Experiment: Electroplating a metal object with copper -- Is there really such a thing as killer quicksand? Experiment: Making a batch of quicksand to understand how it works. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.7 3.0 115014. |
| Subject |
Science -- Experiments -- Juvenile literature.
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Science.
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Experiments.
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| ISBN |
0787983691 paperback |
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9780787983697 paperback |
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9781417765768 Topeka |
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1417765763 Topeka |
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