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Presents over two dozen simple science activities using food, common household items, water, and the outdoors. ''Dive into science with these fun and simple experiments for children to do at home. This fun, activity-filled book is brimming with home experiments to help budding scientists aged 8-14 explore different projects. Using household items, combine science with art and craft, and make an erupting volcano, design rubber band planets, sail...

"An introduction to paleoclimatology and ice cores for kids, connecting the methods that scientists use to study our climate history with future climate change solutions"-- "A dazzling introduction to paleoclimatology for kids, connecting the methods that scientists use to study our climate history with future climate change solutions. Believe it or not, ice isn't always just frozen water. In fact, most of the ice covering our planet contains thousands...

"Space-obsessed Murphy Shannon is pumped that his 6th grade class is visiting the Rayburne Observatory. Except, being a know-it-all means he's totally bored with the lectures he has to sit through. So when classmates Orly and Cleo say they should exploreon their own, Murphy sneaks out with them. But when they come face-to-face with the strange Dr. Rayburne and his experiments, they realize they may be in way over their heads"--

"¿Te gustaría ser medico? ¿Quizá microbiólogo? Si te intriga el misterioso funcionamiento del cerebro, que es el ADN, cómo eres capaz de mover unos 600 músculos y unos 200 huesos, cómo pueden engañarnos nuestros sentidos, que son esos diminutos seres vivos que se ven al microscopio o que pasa en tu estómago cuando comes" -- CasaDelLibro.com

In 1943, a secret government project attempted to create a cloaking device that would make warships invisible. But during the first test, the warship vanished - and could not be found again. Seventy years later, it reappears on a Pennsylvania runway, allowing the sole surviving crewman to escape and a local lawman to board. What is behind a sinister reactivation of the project? Where will the massive ship materialize next? And what will become of...

As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife. Lyra llega a una misteriosa ciudad donde conoce a un enigmático muchacho: un asesino. Los destinos de ambos jóvenes están extrañamente enlazados, y juntos deben encontrar un objeto poderoso y secreto, por el cual gentes de muchos mundos estarían incluso dispuestas a matar...--Desde la descripción...

Presents more than thirty-five activities that teach and demonstrate science concepts through art, crafts, and other hands-on projects. ''In Science Art and Drawing Games for Kids, you'll find an amazing collection of more than 35 hands-on art activities that make learning about science fun. Often art and science are seen as opposites but, in fact, they are virtually inseparable! Written by Karyn Tripp—author of Math Art and Drawing Games for...

To get her best friend back, anxious and inventive eleven-year-old Maple performs a scientific experiment to uncover the secret to becoming fun. "Perfect for fans of Dork Diaries and Emmie & Friends, this first book in a diary-style illustrated middle grade series follows an anxious, science-minded sixth grader determined to become fun and win back her friend. Sixth grade has been pretty disaster-free for aspiring astronaut Maple McNutt—which...