"Explore science in your own backyard with these quick, fun outdoor science projects."--

"Through short, straightforward science activities, readers will learn how fun--and delicious--science can be."--

"Skulls and Skeletons! encourages readers to learn as they compare and contrast their own bones with those of other vertebrates. They make working models, measure bone lengths and brain capacity, learn how to identify skulls and bones by shape, structure, and functions, and much more! Bones provide the framework that allow our muscles and organs to do their jobs. They also protect important body parts, provide a place for muscles to attach, and even...

Presents over two dozen outdoor science activities demonstrating such scientific properties as soil erosion, the water cycle, air pressure, and astronomy.

Experiments for young children to conduct to learn about science--

Presents more than thirty experiments for grades three through five on such subjects as energy, air and water pressure, motion, friction, light, and states of matter.

Explains the STEAM principles behind different crafts and experiments, including making a sun clock, making an ice lantern, and growing wheat grains on wet damp paper towels.

Looks at chemistry and the history of its study and presents science experiments and projects that demonstrate some of its principles.