Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-144) and index.
Contents:
Chatper 1 Learning and Experimenting -- A Closer Look with the Hand Lens -- Pouring and More: Funnels and Test Tubes -- Tools for Drips and Drops -- Water Sense and Cents: Surface Tension -- Sink or Float -- Buoyancy and Salt Water -- Magnetic Attraction -- Map the Magnetic Poles -- Chapter 2 Measuring, Identifying, and Classifying -- A Slice of Life: Tree-Trunk Explorations -- Lots of Lids -- What Sort Is It? -- Classifying Liquids and Solids -- The Mystery of Suspensions -- Find the Long-Lost Animals -- Dealing with Density and Matter -- The Estimation Guessing Game -- Counting with Snapping Cubes or Teddy Bears -- The Weekly Estimation Jar -- Building Strong Structures -- Chapter 3 Changing, Bubbling, and Rolling -- Let the Color Changes Flow! -- Squish and Squeeze: Secondary Colors -- Absorbing Color Combinations -- Fluffed-Up Soap -- Chemical Changes: Making a Mixture -- Bubbling Baking Soda -- Look Out! Volcano Erupting -- Launching Recycled Rockets -- Go, Car, Go! Simple Machines and Inclined Planes -- Chapter 4 Cooking, Looking, and Listening -- It's Snowing Inside! -- Shake and Freeze: Homemade Ice Cream -- Sun-Cooked Snacks -- Creative Printing with Sunlight -- Exploring Mirrors, Light, and Reflection -- Playing with Light and Shadows -- Cool Vibrations: Sensing Sound Waves -- Chapter 5 Growing, Adapting, and Exploring Nature -- Growth and Change: Mealworms -- Animal Adaptations: Marine Mammals and Blubber -- Comparing Different Animal Homes -- Understanding Air and Blowing Bubbles -- Our Hearts and Circulation: A Matter of Exercise -- Examining Seeds and Observing Growth -- Pumpkin Properties and Predictions -- Planting and Harvesting Radishes -- Junior Geologists: Rock Quest.
Summary:
Gives parents lots of ideas for early teaching of children when it comes to science and math principles.
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