Using everyday items found at home and in the classroom, students perform eye-opening experiments and demonstrations in order to learn about fundamental physical-science principles. Topics include motion, heat, electricity, magnetism, sound, light, and chemistry. Each of the 90 activities comprises a reproducible student worksheet and a page of step-by-step instructions with an explanation of the scientific principle. Students learn to state a scientific problem; predict results; gather, record, and graph data; and draw conclusions. Grades 3-6. Index. Bibliography. Glossary. Illustrated. Good Year Books. 283 pages.

This book contains 365 experiments that are inexpensive and use easy to find materials, brief instructions, safety guidelines, and over 700 instructive illustrations.

Super Science Experiments is the perfect supplement to any classroom science curriculum. It is filled with hands-on experiments that will spark any child's interest in and curiosity about the environment. Through the observation or experiment, midgraders will discover answers to such questions as: How are caves formed? Do plants need air? What is soil made of? and more.

Each unit has 3-5 fascinating activities. Your students will invent a seismograph, create a balanced ecosystem in an aquarium, observe the effects of pollution, build a working battery, use chromatography to discover the author of a mystery note, and much more.