Experiments category: 574 books
Unscrewed
Salvage and Reuse Motors, Gears, Switches, and More from Your Old Electronics
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Perfect for the do-it-yourselfer, this handy guide to household electronics gives the weekend workbench enthusiast a multitude of ideas on how to salvage valuable parts from old electronics and turn them into useful gadgets once more. This handbook is loaded with information and helpful tips for disassembling...
by Various US Military Personnel, Bridged Books Group
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
A typical active solar system can be used for radiant heating, domestic hot water, heating swimming pools and countless industrial uses. They often use a rooftop collector to concentrate solar energy, a liquid medium to absorb and transfer heat, and various pumps and simple controllers move the heated...
Haywired
Pointless (Yet Awesome) Projects for the Electronically Inclined
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Demonstrating that not all science needs to be serious to be educational or worthwhile, the electrifying projects in this packed resource offer science enthusiasts and weekend workbench hobbyists odd creations that will amuse them for years to come. Helpful hints on soldering, wire wrapping, and...
Planes, Gliders and Paper Rockets
Simple Flying Things Anyone Can Make--Kites and Copters, Too!
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Do helicopters need more or less energy to stay in the sky than an airplane? What pushes a rocket to leave the atmosphere? Why can airplanes have smaller motors than helicopters? Help your students learn the answers to these and other questions! Written for educators, homeschoolers,...
Getting Biodiversity Projects to Work
Towards More Effective Conservation and Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2004
This book explores both the theoretical and practical underpinnings of integrated conservation and development. It synthesizes existing experience to better inform conservationists and decision makers of the role ICDPs play in conservation and management and analyzes their successes and shortcomings.
by Austen, Elizabeth
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Learn all about baby animals in this bright and colorful science reader! Young readers will love the vibrant photos of these adorable baby animals. With the help of familiar examples, students will learn the names of their favorite animals' babies. They can also practice counting the number of animals...
by Austen, Elizabeth
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
What do living things need to survive? Find out in this colorful science reader! Discover that living things need light, food, water, air, space, homes, protection, and more! The easy-to-read text and vibrant images will keep young readers engaged from start to finish. This reader also includes a...
by Cynthia Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
With 10,000 words and almost 100 illustrations, Fizzyx For Fun presents Newton's Physics to middle school students in a way that is entertaining, accessible and gender-neutral—even fun!
As the contents of Fizzyx for Fun meet many of the Prescribed Science Learning Outcomes for Grades 6 - 9 for many,...
Genetics
Breaking the Code of Your DNA
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Why do children resemble their parents and siblings? Introducing young readers to the fascinating world of genetics, this educational resource presents the main concepts of the science, including what a chromosome does, how DNA is structured, and how genetic inheritance works. Students learn about...
Metamorphosis
Nature's Magical Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
With this easy-to-read book, children will discover the facts behind the seemingly magical conversions that transform a wooly caterpillar into a graceful butterfly and a swimming tadpole into a leaping frog. Far from being supernatural, these changes involve a fascinating natural process, and this...
by David White
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2005
The Hallucinogenic Rooster is a moment captured in time, a dreamlike and nightmarish expansion of one brief moment. In a place called Fairy Tale Town, some years ago, I walked with a girl I was in love with among grimy fantasies; a concrete Pirate ship, a castle and drinking fountains in the form...
by Alexandra Kitty
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
The first issue of the Academic Punk eReader featuring Method Research -- studying by becoming the subject of your own experiment.
About the Author
Alexandra Kitty is a dangerous woman who is the author of Don’t Believe It!: How lies become news, OutFoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s war...
Explore Weather and Climate!
With 25 Great Projects
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
What's it like outside? And what are you going to do about it?
Every morning, before heading to school or out to play, kids want to know what the weather is going to be like that day. Is it a day for building a snowman, constructing a sandcastle, or planting a garden? Will they be stuck inside because...
by Torrey Maloof
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
With the George Washington and the Men Who Shaped America e-Book, students will learn more about the commander and the leader who helped others found America. This rigorous informational text profiles the first president of the United States of America, during his early days in Mount Vernon, as he...