365 More Simple Science Experiments with Everyday Materials

by Breckenridge, Judy; Fredericks, Anthony D.; Loeschnig, Louis V.

• ISBN13: 9781579120351
• ISBN10: 1579120350
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal

Summary

Presents a variety of activities, projects, and experiments that help tollustrate and explain all sorts of scientific principles.

Author Biography

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E. Richard Churchill,Louis V. Loeschnig, and Muriel Mandell are authors of books in the No-Sweat Science series, published by Sterling Publishers. They each have written several other science-related books for children and young adults.

Table of Contents

Introduction Beating the heat

Make a Foil Lamp Shade

Step on a Crack

Day and Night in a Can

Decorate a Hat

Melt a Kiss

Color Me Warm

Birds on a Wire Why Is There Air?

The Collapsing Bottle

The Wonderful Whistle-Stick

The Talking Coin

The Incredible Shrinking Face

Launch Your Own Astronauts

The Trick Straw Race

The Collapsing Tent

Make a parachute

The Singing Balloon

The Rising Notebook Trick

Air-Head Person

Real String Soap in a Bottle

Underwater Eggspert

Acupuncture Balloon

"Boil, Boil Magical Water" Water, Water, Everywhere!

"I Was Here First!"

Flowing Fountain

Two Water Towers

"I Think I''ll Eat Worms"

The Power of Water

Ice Boat Float

The Floating Glass

Disappearing Salt

"Freeze Me and I''ll Burst!"

1 + 1 Does Not Always = 2

"Give Me Room!"

The Shrinking Molecule

Shy Blue

Make a "Dropper"

Square Bubbles from Square Holes?

More Than Enough

Water "Glue"

Stick Together, Stay Together

Fishing for "Clippies"

Water-Drop Art

Oil versus Water

Make a Waterwheel

Deep-Bottle Diver

The Warm and Cold of It

Make a Purple People-Eater Seeing the Light

Sometimes Bigger Is Better

Make Your Own Movie Screen

The Reappearing Penny

Big Bold Letters

Amazing 3-Ring Light Show Sounds Like Fun

Deep "C", High "C"

Catching Sound

The Amazing Hum-o-comb

Was It Ripped or Torn?

Make Your Own Sound Studio

The Silence of Snow

Cigar-Box Guitar

Dance, Sprinkles, Dance

Natural Vibrations

Musical Nails

Make a Megaphone

Dancing Cereal Puffs

Wild Animal Calls A Matter of Gravity

Feel the Force

Which Drops Faster?

Find the Center of Gravity

Wacky Ball

Anti-Gravity Magic Physics Mix

The Deep, Dark Hole

A Gyroscope in Your Pocket

The Kissing Balloons

Make a Balloon Rocket

The Magic Water Bucket

The Pendulum Sand Painting It''s Crystal Clear

Sparkling Soda

Astronomical White Asteroids

Crazy Cave Icicles

The Diamond Mine

Blue Moon Rocks

Rocky Mountains

The Gem Show

Hi, Sugar! The Lab: CO2 and You

Dynamite Dumplings

How to Make a Manometer

The Care and Use of Your Manometer

CO2 Uplift Kitchen Alchemy

Spicy Infusion

Give An Infusion Party

Butter Me Up

"Emulsional" about Mayonnaise

In a Pickle

Atoms Apple

Lemon Aide

Herb Dressing: To Be or Not to Be?

I Scream!

Endothermic Frozen Treat: Cranberry Lemon Snow

Maple Snow Sugar

Batter on the Moon

I''ve Got a Crush on You Food For Thought

Tasting through Your Nose

Some Like it Hot

Wilting a Cucumber

Too Many Potato Chips!

Too Salty!

What Pot?

Which Boils Faster

Salted or Plain Water?

Poached Egg Physics

Salt Versus the Sweet Stuff

Freezing Salt and Sugar

The Candy Trap

The Cookie Test Green Broccoli and Other Vegetables

The Vegetable Game

How to Feed Celery

Storing Carrots

No Way to Treat a Lettuce

Taming an Onion

Taking the Starch Out of a Potato!

Potato Race

Milking a Potato

Potato Soup

Why Do Some Vegetables Smell Bad?

Keeping of the Green

Looking Good but Feeling Rotten!

Cold or Hot

Keeping a Lid On

There Must Be a Better Way!

Colorful Carrot

About Legumes

Culling

Tough Cook, Tender Beans

Sprouting Beans Fruit of the Vine and Other Places

Bite or Bake?

Bursting an Apple

Apple in a Cookie Jar

One end is sweeter!

How to Ripen a Fruit

Getting Juice from a Lemon

Rescuing an Apple

Not in the Refrigerator

Powerful Pineapple

Currying Flavor with a Lime

How to Make Vinegar Grain: The Staff of Life

What is Toast?

Science for Breakfast

Why Not Eat Flour Raw?

Popping Popcorn

Gluten: The Sticky Story

Popovers: Gluten in Action

Hidden Sugar

Alice''s Magic Pill

The Sugar Eater

Just Right

The Pizza Test

About Baking Soda

About Baking Powder

Powder Versus Soda

Model Muffins

Weather and Cookies Making Food Last

Hocus-Pocus-Raisins

Freezing Herbs

To Freeze or Not to Freeze

Preserving a Pear

Little Miss Muffet Talking About Time

Now and Then

Time to Wake Up

The Time of Your Life

How Long Is a Minute? Telling Time by the Moon

Calendar Timeline

Moon Time

Different Drummers

String Calendar

Perpetual Calendar

The Wobbly Week Telling Time by the Sun

Sundial Timeline

Where Does My Shadow Go?

Why Am I Sometimes Very Tall?

Shadow Watch

Shadow Temperature

What''s the Angle?

Hand Dial

Noon Marks

Time Zones Cloudy Day and Night Timetellers

Cloudy Day Timeline

Candle Timekeeper

By A Nose!

Water Clock

Having It Both Ways

A Knotty Problem

Hourglass Timekeepers

Invent Your Own Clock Telling Time by the Stars

Star Timeline

Cereal Box Planetarium

The Sky As Compass

Star Map

Some Timetelling Stars

Star Time Mechanical Clocks

Mechanical Clock Timeline

Yo-Yo Clock

Get in Gear

Why Clocks Count to Twelve

Jewel As Cushions

Pendulum Clocks

Railroad Timetable

Daylight Savings Time

International Date Line Super Clocks

Super Clock Timeline

Electric Clocks

Make an Electric Motor

Charged!

Coin Battery

Quartz Crystal Clocks

The Piezoelectric Effect

Digital Clocks

Glowing in the Dark

Timing the Past: The Radioactive Clock

Atomic Clocks

Time Machines

and More Under Ground

Rock and Roll

It''s a Dirty Job...

Soak It Up

Deeper and Deeper

Nutrients Away

Making Bricks

A Crystal Garden

From Dust to Dust

Erosion Explosion

Stem the Tide

Did You Know?

Compact and Loose

Well, Well, Well

From Shore to Shore

More than You Know

Ocean Motion

You Crack Me Up!

Drip, Drip, Drip

Don''t Rain on My Parade

Acid Soil

Did You Know? Plenty of Plants

Hey, What''s Inside?

Help Me Out

Swell Time

Top to Bottom

A Growing Enterprise

Hawaiian Harvest

Green Highways

The Name Game

Water In, Water Out

Don''t Crowd Me

Breathe Deeply

Follow That Light

Hanging On

See Me Grow

Flower Power

A Powerful Force

Hold That Mold

My Bud-Bud-Buddy

Adopt a Tree

Plants Breathe, Too

Did You Know?

I''m Impressed Wonderful Wildlife

Feathered Friends

Well Fed

Feed Me, I''m Yours!

Woodside Restaurant

World''s Greatest Birdfood

Home Sweet Home

Look Ma, No Hands!

Worm World

Creepy Crawlers

The Ants Go Marching...

Cricket Critters

Web Warriors

Net Gain

Mealworm Magic

Bee Home, Be Careful

Sea Shrimp at the Seashore

Can''t See Me!

I''m All Yours!

Track record

Sound Off

Did You Know? Ecosystems Near and Far

Life in a Square

Houses and Homes

Happy Habitat

A Simple Community

My Own Backyard

Bag of Bananas

It''s Absolutely Degrading!

Did You Know? Nature Problems to Solve

A Plethora of Pollution

Eggs Over easy

Oil Change

Not

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Excerpts

1 + 1 Does Not Always = 2 You might be a good math student, but you will have to be a good physics student to figure out this experiment. You will need: - large-size glass jar - masking tape - pen - cup of sugar - measuring cup - paper towel - drinking straw - warm water What to do: Place a strip of masking tape down the outside of the jar. Pour one cup of warm water into the jar and mark the level that it reaches on the tape. Then, add a second cup of warm water and, again mark the water level on the tape. Empty all of the water out of the jar and dry the inside of it with a paper towel. Now, pour one cup of warm water into the jar. Follow that with one cup of sugar. Stir this solution well with the straw and then check the liquid level on the masking-tape measuring strip. What happens: The liquid level of one cup of water plus one cup of sugar does not reach the two-cup mark of the tape. Why: If you caught the clue word, solution, when you were instructed to stir the sugar and water together, you probably know the answer. The substances in a solution fit neatly together, like puzzle parts. Instead of taking up their own space, the grains of sugar simply fill in the empty spaces around the water molecules to make something entirely new, a solution called sugar water...but less of it than you thought you would have when you added the sugar and water measurements. The Talking Coin You may have heard somebody say that money talks, but until you do this experiment you have probably never actually seen it speak. You will need: - plastic 2-liter bottle - quarter - cup of water - freezer - kitchen timer or watch What to do: Put the quarter in the cup of water and place the empty bottle in the freezer for five minutes. When the time is up, remove the bottle from the freezer and, immediately, cover the mouth of the bottle with the wet coin. (It is important to completely cover the bottle's mouth with the coin.) What happens: The quarter becomes a tongue for the bottle and begins to chatter to you. Why: When the bottle was put into the freezer, the air molecules inside of it cooled and moved closer together. Since the air in the bottle then took up less space, it left room for extra air to flow in - so it did. When the bottle was removed from the freezer, however, the air molecules inside of it began to warm up and spread out again. It's a great example of, "There was enough room for everyone to sit comfortably in the car until we all put on coats and it was crowded." Suddenly there was no room for the extra air molecules. It is that "extra air" that is being pushed out of the bottle as the air warms that makes the coin move up and down as if it were talking. "Boil, Boil Magical Water" Would you believe you can boil water without using a stove? Here's the key to this old, well-kept secret. You will need: - clear drinking glass (a narrow one is easier to handle) - water - handkerchief-size square of cloth - rubber band - sink What to do: Fill the glass about half full of water. Lay the cloth evenly over the top of the glass and push the center of it down into the water. Then, put a rubber band tightly around the top to hold the cloth edges against the sides of the glass. Turn the glass upside down over the sink. Some of the water may dribble out, but most of it will stay inside the glass. Hold the cloth tightly around the neck of the glass, between the rubber band and the covered opening, and push down hard on the upside-down bottom of the glass. What happens: The water starts to boil! (It may take a couple of tries to get the hand of this, but don't give up.) Why: Of course, the water isn't really boiling, because there is no heat source. Actually, it is the air that comes in through the cloth when the water is squeezed out (by pressing on the bottom of the glass and tightly pulling on the cloth) that causes the bubbles - and makes it look as if the water in the glass is boiling. What next: Once you can control the bubbling, use this experiment as a trick lie detector. Ask friends some questions and tell them that the water will boil if they lie, but won't if they tell the truth. Note: You can make this trick more mysterious by tinting the water in the glass with food coloring. Excerpted from 365 More Simple Science Experiments. Copyright (c) 1998 by Sterling Publishing Company. Reprinted with permission by BD&L

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