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

Cobb, Vicki

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1602397759 ISBN 13: 9781602397750

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

For adventurous boys and girls, these experiments will thrill and educate. Learn science the fun way. Making learning (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) fun is more important than ever for every student.

Would you believe that you could throw an egg across the room without breaking it? Burn a candle underwater? Blow frozen soap bubbles? Make fireworks with a lemon?

We Dare You! is a gigantic collection of irresistible, easy-to-perform science experiments, tricks, bets, and games kids can do at home with ordinary 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.

• Write with a potato!
• Boil water in a paper cup!
• Calculate air temperature by listening to crickets!
• Use Windex to reveal secret messages!
• Slice a banana without peeling it or using a knife!
• And much more!

With over 200 charming, practical illustrations and even more experiments, this is a book no young scientist should be without.

About this title

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 Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1602397759
• ISBN 13: 9781602397750
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336