SUPER Science Experiments: At Home: Try these in the kitchen, bathroom, and all over your home!

by Elizabeth Snoke Harris

Overview

With more than 80 fun experiments, SUPER Science Experiments: At Home is the ultimate lab book for kids who are stuck at home!

This fact- and fun-filled book includes tons of simple, kid-tested science experiments, many of which can be done with items found around the house, and require little to no supervision! That’s right—no adult help needed. That means no grown-ups doing all the fun stuff while you watch. You can do lots of messy, cool, mind-blowing experiments all by yourself! All the supplies you need are probably already in your home. No fancy gadgets or doohickeys needed!

Whether you’re making a soap-powered boat, creating indoor rainbows, or performing magic (science!) tricks, this book has something for everyone. Each experiment features safety precautions, materials needed, step-by-step instructions with illustrations, fun facts, and further explorations.

With SUPER Science Experiments: At Home, kid scientists like you can:
 

• Trick your taste buds
• Use yeast to blow up balloons
• Freeze hot water faster than cold water
• Build a water wheel
• Make things disappear
• Create a kaleidoscope
• And complete many other SUPER science experiments!

At once engaging, encouraging, and inspiring, the SUPER Science Experiments series provides budding scientists with go-to, hands-on guides for learning the fundamentals of science and exploring the fascinating world around them. Also in this series, check out: Cool Creations, Build It, and Outdoor Fun.

There’s no better boredom-buster than a science experiment. You will learn something and astound and amaze your friends and family. So, what are you waiting for? Get experimenting!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781633228726
Publisher:	Walter Foster Publishing
Publication date:	04/14/2020
Series:	Super Science Series , #1
Pages:	64
Sales rank:	654,430
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	IG860L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Elizabeth Snoke Harris has been involved in science education for more than 20 years—in classrooms, research facilities, and museums. When she’s not working on science curriculum projects or leading STEM field trips at the local roller rink, she serves as web master for science education organizations. She is the author of several science experiment books, including 365 Weird & Wonderful Science Experiments. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her science blog can be found at seven-oaks.net.

Table of Contents

Introduction 4

From the Fridge 5

Hot Chocolate Effect 5

Bendable Bones 5

Egg in a Bottle 6

Straw Through a Potato 7

Drink a Rainbow 7

Taste with Your Eyes 8

Taste with Your Nose 8

Better with Butter 9

Ice Cream in a Bag 10

The Gelatin Jiggle 10

Make Meringue 11

Yeasty Beasties 12

Gluten Goodness 12

Fruity DNA Extraction 13

Get the iron Out 14

Drink Your Iron 15

Clearing Up Cola 15

Ripening Fruit 16

Floating Fruit 16

Mayo Emulsion 17

Apple Exposure 18

One Plus One 18

Salty Science 19

Use Your Noodle 20

Hot Water Freeze 21

Upside-down Toast 22

Potatosmosis 22

Curds Sc Whey 23

Eggstravaganzai 24

Cook an Egg 24

Spinning Eggs 24

Egg Toss 25

Floating Eggs 26

Naked Egg 26

The Incredible Shrinking Egg 27

Foldable Egg 28

Egg Strength 29

Balance an Egg 30

Walking on Eggshells 30

Water & Ice 31

Water Filter 31

Straw Sprinkler 32

Ice Cube Rescue 32

Solar Still 33

Ice Cube Island 33

Hot + Cold Water 34

Leaky Bottle 35

Oil Spill Cleanup 36

Ketchup Diver 36

Floating Ball 37

Surface Tension Shimmy 37

Water Wheel 38

Ice Cubes or Oil Cubes? 39

Super Cool Water 40

Ice Cubes on a Wire 40

Walking Water 41

Soap-powered Boat 41

Soft Water, Hard Water 42

Hero's Engine 43

Moving Molecules 44

Pepper Scatter 44

Bottle Pour 45

Penny Drop 45

In the Bathroom 46

Down the Drain 46

Plunger Power 47

Oil + Waters = ? 47

Mirror, Mirror in the Steam 48

Floating Bowling Balls 49

Soap Clouds 49

Oily Water Mix-up 50

Toilet Paper Inertia 50

Wrinkly Fingers 51

Elephant Toothpaste 52

Bubble Snakes 52

Bomb Your Bath 53

Light & Color 54

Break a Pencil 54

Color Explosion 55

Candy Chromatography 55

Color-mixing Spinner 56

Crookes Radiometer 57

Disappearing Bowl 58

Disappearing Coin 58

Reappearing Coin 59

Indoor Rainbow 59

Measure the Speed of Light 60

Metamerism Matters 61

Kaleidoscope 62

Rainbow Paper 62

Sky Colors 63

Un-mixing Colors 63

Index 64