Introduces simple scientific principles involving air, and provides step-by-step instructions for experiments demonstrating these principles.

Discover the properties and uses of water with these experiments.

Air is all around, usually unnoticed. It lacks color, taste or smell, yet it endlessly affects our daily lives. The science of air is also all around us, vast and exciting. Without air we’d have no weather, planes, sleek cars, bicycle tire pumps, buzzing b

Discover the properties and uses of light with these experiments.

This book provides suggestions for experiments that examine some of the qualities of sound.

Switches are marvelous things - they control the most useful and convenient form of energy in our modern world, electricity. By powering machines and devices it turns night into day, stillness into motion, silence into sound and cold into hot - or the other way around. Yet electricity itself is invisible, so we study the science of it by its effects.

Discover the amazing Archimedes' screw, how gears make things easy, and the lifting power of cranes.

Gives directions for many simple chemistry experiments, including descriptions of necessary equipment, principles, techniques, and safety precautions.