The Kids' Science Book: Creative Experiences for Hands-On Fun

Have fun learning about the scientific principles all around you! This book of fun, simple experiments is great for summer days, school projects or a bit of special fun. Each topic has a number of activities listed with background information, facts, riddles, and of course, experiments! Illustrations provide additional help and visual interest. Learn about plants, water, air, earth, light and more with questions that will help them question, observe, predict and estimate--scientific qualities that will help them for life! 159 pages, softcover. Ages 4-10.

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Meet Your Teeth: Grades 1-4

Meet Your Teeth is a fun, creative way for kids to learn about their teeth and dental health. This thematic unit is geared for kids in grades 1-4 and incorporates all areas of the curriculum-reading, research, writing, poetry, spelling, science, and art as well as creative thinking skills. This book contains mor than fifty pages of activities and information on topics such as brushing and flossing, identifying the parts of a tooth, eating healthy, and learning about routine dental procedures. Meet the Teeth is packed with puzzles, word games, codes, word searches, and more for your students and time-saving pages for you such as dental clip art, awards, and certificates. Meet the Teeth is the ideal way to help your child learn good dental hygiene at home. It's easy to use, fun for kids, and filled with helpful infromation. When it's time for your child to visit the dentist, go through the book together. The information and activities explain what happens during a routine dental exam, including e-rays, cleaning,flossing, and filling of teeth. There are also activities to teach your child about the proper foods to eat for healthy teeth.

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The Boy's Own Book

First published in Boston in 1829, this book is a guide for boys' entertainment from the days before radio, movies, and television. This book is chock-ful of great advice on many "minor sports and pastimes," including swimming, fishing, and archery, as well as invaluable how-to instructions on everything from learning sign language, to making a pea-shooter, or a kite, or a kaleidoscope. There are math, logic, and word games, science experiments, card tricks, and even strategies for winning checkers.

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Lab Brats Investigate the Science of Bugs & Beasties

With the mischievous Lab Brats as guides, kids will have a blast learning about creepy-crawly bugs! Kit contains a 32-page book filled with fascinating facts, fun-filled games and activities, and colorful charts and stickers.

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Air Science, Grades 1-3

How can you make science fun for your students? Use the activities in this Science Action Labs book to involve them in discovering scientific truths for themselves. This series of books provides interesting facts and meaningful demonstrations and experiments as well as questions for group discussions. Air Science gives students opportunities to discover for themselves that the air all around them is transparent; has weight , pressure and resistance; and is made up of several different gasses, the most important of which is oxygen, which they need to breathe. They'll enjoy conducting their own experiments, writing poetry, competing with one another in simple games and taking periodic quizzes to see how much they have learned. Grades 1-3

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Water Science, Grades 1-3

Make science fun for your students by using activities in this Science Action Lab book to involve them in discovering scientific truths for themselves. This series of books provides interesting facts and meaningful demonstrations and experiments. Water Science provides opportunities for students to discover for themselves the wonder of water (it covers three-fourths of the Earth's surface, it is a part of all living things, it is the only substance on Earth that exists in three forms, it dissolves, it evaporates, it has a skin and much more). Your students will enjoy conductin a variety of experiments with water, solving challenges, competing with one another in simple games and taking quizzes to review what they have learned.

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Creepy Crawlies, Grades 1-4

Go "buggy" with learning! You and your students will love this one-stop resource filled with photos, fascinating information, and lots of learning-rich activities, such as nonfiction mini-books, fact cards, puppets, easy science experiments, games, research projects, and more. Includes a pull-out poster. Grades 1-4. Reproducible

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Science Activities Volume 1: Light, Water & Magnets

This bright, exciting book responds to the growing emphasis on scientific exploration for young children. Its appealing scientific activities are cleverly designed to help children investigate the intriguing properties of water, light, mirrors and magnets. Readers can find out, for example, how to make a magnet float in mid-air, how to use mirrors to see around corners, and how to produce their own rainbow. All the activities are safe and easy to do, using ordinary household equipment. The text and illustrations are simple and clear so children can carry out the experiments by themselves and understand the results. Extra notes give fuller scientific explanations for adults who wish to work with their children. hardcover, 74 pages, from Usborne Publishing

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Science Activities Volume 2: Plants, Kitchen & Air

This colorful, exciting book responds to the growing emphasis on scientific exploration for young children. Its appealing activities are clverly designed to help children investigate the fascinating scientific world of the kitchen and the intriguing nature of plants and air. Readers can find out how to make water go fizzy, how to make a plant grow sideways and how to use air to push up a coin. All the activities are safe and easy to do, using ordinary household equipment. The text and illustrations are simply and clear so that children can carry out the experiments by themselves and understand the results. Extra notes give fuller explanations for adults who wish to work with their children.

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