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Grade-schoolers learn how ants, snails, slugs, beetles, earthworms, spiders, and other subterranean creatures live, breed, interact, move about, defend themselves, and more.
Instructions on how to do demonstrations with electricity, magnetism, air pressure, and other scientific principles
Liberally sprinkled with humor, these lessons will fascinate beginning physics students and other readers with chapters titled "On a Clear Day You Can't See Forever" and "Physics on a Manure Heap."
Describes the process of metamorphosis, the change from larva to adult, in such animals as frogs, butterflies, and honeybees.
Engaging, erudite study of rise of scientific movement in 17th-century England; Francis Bacon s role particularly stressed. Revised (1961) edition."
Acclaimed book discusses how to keep a child's curiosity alive. Topics include importance of questions and appropriate climates for learning, need for instructive play and free exploration, use of outdoors as a laboratory, more. "A must for parents, teachers, circulating libraries and young minds on the threshold." — Publishers' Weekly.
Explains how scientific principles affect the way athletes perform, particularly in football, basketball, and baseball.
Fascinating profiles of 29 of the world's most remarkable species of animal and plant life. Simple enough for young readers, this book abounds with intriguing information that will also captivate adults. Included are astonishing facts and illustrations of the world's fastest runner, the best jumper, and other natural wonders. 50 illustrations.
Dozens of riddles and puzzles working with air pressure, liquids, light, motion, more.
"First published in 2004, is an unabridged, newly reset republication of the edition published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, in 1920"--T.p. verso.