I Wish I Knew That: Science

by Driver, Stephanie Schwartz; Garcia, Rachel

• ISBN13: 9781606524244
• ISBN10: 1606524240
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-02-02
• Publisher: Readers Digest

Summary

Why does matter matter? What makes the earth quake? Why does the moon shine? With I Wish I Knew That: Science, kids will learn the answers to hundreds of fascinating questions, alongside lighthearted illustrations and a bunch of experiments to make learning fun. Inside kids will find out everything they need to know about: Humans Animals Earth Weather and Climate Technology Space Chemistry Includes over 100 engaging illustrations!

Author Biography

Christopher W. Davis is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Reader's Digest, Discovery Channel Magazine and Popular Mechanics. He was coauthor of U.S. News & World Report’s award-winning series “The Human Body” and named Aerospace Journalist of the Year in 2005 by the Royal Aeronautical Society. The former founding editor-in-chief of wisecity.com, he has also written for Highlights for Children and Reader's Digest Young Families. He lives outside of New York City with his family.

Rachel Byard Garcia has a M.A.T. from Cornell University, an M.F.S. from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and a B.S. in Natural Resources from Cornell. As a volunteer at Cornell Center for Materials Research, she worked with children on various science-enrichment activities ,such as building crystal radios, electrochemical reactions, and making cross-linked polymers. She lives in Gambier, Ohio.

Andrew Pinder initially studied archaeology, and worked as an archaeologist and prehistorian, directing excavations and producing illustrations for museums, books and specialist publications. When he moved to Mallorca he began to work as an illustrator, painter and muralist.? He has had numerous one man exhibitions on Mallorca and has work in various public and private collections. As an illustrator he has worked on more than twenty books, mainly for children, in Catalan, Spanish and English.

Table of Contents

Introduction: How in the World…?	p. 8
Matter Matters	p. 11
Atoms-The Main Building Blocks	p. 12
The Periodic Table	p. 16
Element + Element = Compound	p. 19
Experiment: The Chemistry Behind the "Volcano"	p. 22
6Et A Move On	p. 27
Everything that Moves Follows the Same Rules (Well, Just About Everything)	p. 28
Round and Round We Go	p. 31
Newton's Noggin	p. 34
The Falling Apple	p. 36
It's All Relative	p. 37
The Friction Factor	p. 39
How Do Airplanes Fly?	p. 40
Experiment: Demonstrating Newton's Law of Inertia with a Marble in a Pie Pan	p. 43
Catch a Wave	p. 17
What Is a Wave?	p. 48
Waves from the Sun	p. 51
Sound Waves	p. 53
Radio Waves	p. 56
Experiment: Musical Glasses	p. 60
Electromagnetic Circus	p. 65
What Is Electricity, Anyway?	p. 66
Switching It On	p. 69
Hair-Raising Fun	p. 72
Magnets Are Attractive	p. 73
Experiment: Sensing the EarthÆs Magnetic Field	p. 78
Life as we Know It	p. 83
What It Takes to Be "Alive"	p. 85
The Birth of Life	p. 86
Six Forms of Life	p. 91
Animal Oddities-Not So Odd, After All	p. 96
Experiment: Where Will Yeast Be the Fittest?	p. 99
What we are and How we Work	p. 103
The Brain: Nature's Gift to Humans	p. 105
Our Nuts and Bolts-Our Bones	p. 108
Eye on Your Eyes	p. 110
The Skinny on Skin	p. 112
We Have Fingernails-and Toenails-Not Claws	p. 114
Caution: Reading This Will Make Your Skin Crawl	p. 115
Healing-A Pretty Amazing Process	p. 116
Experiment: Who Has Greater Lung Capacity-you or Your Parents?	p. 118
Why Earth Looks (And Acts) Like Earth	p. 121
The Cool Planet	p. 122
Planetary Burps	p. 126
Moving Mountains	p. 129
Earthquake	p. 134
Molten Mountains	p. 136
Current Events	p. 137
Experiment: Cloud in a Bottle	p. 141
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