We Dare You!: Hundreds of Fun Science Bets, Challenges, and Experiments You Can Do at Home - Hardcover

Cobb, Vicki; Darling, Kathy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1602392250 ISBN 13: 9781602392250

Publisher: Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, 2008

Synopsis

Would you believe that you could throw an egg across the room without breaking it? Burn a candle underwater? We Dare You! is a gigantic collection of irresistible, easy-to-perform science experiments, tricks, bets, and games kids can do at home with everyday household objects. Thanks to the principles of gravity, mechanics, fluids, logic, geometry, energy, and perception, kids will find countless hours of fun with the selections included in this book.

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Review

A science-experiment bonanza . . . All of the projects are doable and the science behind them is explained in a kid-accessible manner. . . . A great resource for teachers, parents, and budding scientists—and for any youngster who can’t resist a challenge.” —School Library Journal

Irresistible projects that sneak in science lessons for your kids . . . We got sucked in, too; who wouldn’t want to know how to tie a knot in a bone, burn a candle underwater, and hypnotize a frog?” —Parenting.com

About the Author

Vicki Cobb is the well-known author of more than eighty-five highly entertaining nonfiction books for children, including Bet You Can’t, which won the New York Academy of Sciences Children’s Science Book Award. Currently, she is president and founder of INK Think Tank: Nonfiction Authors in Your Classroom. She has won numerous awards, including a Sibert Honor and a special Lifetime Achievement Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of for the Advancement of Science in 2012. She lives in Greenburgh, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Skyhorse Pub Co Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1602392250
• ISBN 13: 9781602392250
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 321