"These 40 simple science activities will have young kids searching the house for everyday items to learn about temperature, pressure, water, air, heat, and plants! Each easy and fun activity includes how-to photos, simple instructions, short explanations, and introduces beginning math principles. With tips and extra information to extend the scientific experience, this book will get kids thinking like scientists in no time at all! Book includes: supply & tool lists, visual and text-based explanations, step-by-step instructions and photos, and safety information."--

Teach kids how to find the science that exists in everyday activities with the experiments in this fun, practical book. Budding scientists will learn how to build a time machine, guess tomorrow's weather, generate salty stalactites, make a rainbow disappear, create fossils, and more.

How do tiny bugs get into oatmeal? What makes children look like-- or different from-- their parents? Where do rotten apples go after they fall off the tree? By presenting everyday mysteries like these, this book will motivate your students to carry out hands-on science investigations and actually care about the results. These 20 open-ended mysteries focus exclusively on biological science, including botany, human physiology, zoology, and health. The stories come with lists of science concepts to explore, grade-appropriate strategies for using them, and explanations of how the lessons align with national standards. They also relieve you of the tiring work of designing inquiry lessons from scratch. " What makes this book so special is the unique way science is integrated into the story line, using characters and situations children can easily identify with." -- Page Keeley, author of the NSTA Press series Uncovering Student Ideas in Science

Provide engaging science-themed lessons! Everyday Literacy: Science helps young students learn key science concepts and vocabulary in just 15 to 20 minutes a day.

Can you move a mug using a balloon? Make a square bubble? Can you turn soap into salt? How much water is in a plant? This book includes 40 simple science activities using everyday items to do experiments about temperature, pressure, water, air, heat, plants and many more. Using everyday items such as balloons, bubbles, plants, potatoes and popcorn, each fun and easy activity includes how-to photos, step-by-step instructions and simple explanations of the science behind the experiments. Supply and tool lists and safety information are included, and tips and extra information are provided to extend and expand the scientific experience. Get kids thinking like scientists in no time at all!

Provides answers to questions children often ask about everyday science, using text, pictures, and open-the-flap surprises to explore topics such as sound, magnets, electricity, gravity, and colors.