Janice VanCleave's the Solar System: Mind-Boggling Experiments You Can Turn into Science Fair Projects - Softcover

VanCleave, Janice

9780471322047: Janice VanCleave's the Solar System: Mind-Boggling Experiments You Can Turn into Science Fair Projects

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471322040 ISBN 13: 9780471322047

Publisher: Wiley, 2000

Mind-Boggling Experiments You Can Turn Into Science Fair Projects

The perfect science fair idea books . . .Spectacular Science Projects
Janice VanCleave's Solar System
* How is a comet like a dirty snowball?
* Does a planet's distance from the Sun affect its temperature?
* How can the Moon block the Sun's light?
Figure out the answers for yourself with out-of-this world activities and experiments that help you learn about the wonders of the solar system. Janice VanCleave's Solar System: Mind-Boggling Experiments You Can Turn into Science Fair Projects guarantees hours and hours of fascinating, hands-on, safe, low-cost science fun. Try these awesome projects at home or in the classroom: trace the Earth's path through the celestial sphere, create a comet in your own bedroom, and build a model of Saturn and its rings. Each experiment includes an illustration and simple, step-by-step instructions, as well as clear explanations of the astronomical concepts you're seeing at work.

Children ages 8--12
Also available in the Spectacular Science Projects Series:

Janice VanCleave's Animals
Janice VanCleave's Earthquakes
Janice VanCleave's Electricity
Janice VanCleave's Gravity
Janice VanCleave's Insects and Spiders
Janice VanCleave's Machines
Janice VanCleave's Magnets
Janice VanCleave's Microscopes and Magnifying Lenses
Janice VanCleave's Molecules
Janice VanCleave's Plants
Janice VanCleave's Rocks and Minerals
Janice VanCleave's Volcanoes
Janice VanCleave's Weather

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About the Author:

JANICE VANCLEAVE is a former science teacher and the award-winning author of more than 40 children's science books with sales totaling over a million copies. She has traveled far and wide to find easy and fun experiments.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 4-6-Twenty interesting (but not mind-boggling) experiments. A brief but informative introduction describes the book's organization and provides suggestions for presenting a project in a science fair. Each chapter establishes a problem to be explored, lists materials needed (all easily available), details a step-by-step procedure with adequate attention to safety, explains the results, and proposes ways to expand the experiment. "Check It Out!" segments ask related questions and refer interested readers to other titles. There are simple but useful line diagrams and charts. While several of the activities are similar to those included in Janice VanCleave's Astronomy for Every Kid (Wiley, 1991), the ideas for extending the experiments and the emphasis on turning the results into science-fair projects are welcome and valuable.
Elaine Fort Weischedel, Franklin Public Library, MA
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