It's Not Magic, It's Science! 50 Science Tricks that Mystify, Dazzle & Astound

by Buttitta, Hope; La Baff, Tom; Lundgren, Orrin

• ISBN13: 9781579908836
• ISBN10: 1579908837
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-01
• Publisher: Lark Books

Summary

Every child who performs these 50 fabulous feats will feel like a magician--but the magic here is really science at play. Every trick in the book has a sound, easy-to-understand scientific explanation that will stimulate kids' understanding of basic concepts. Even as they're having fun, children will wow the crowd by poking a skewer through a balloon without making it pop, or balancing a penny on a coat hanger. Nothing's cooler than watching a real egg get sucked into a glass bottle, picking up ice without even touching it, or whipping up fizzy and colorful solutions that any mad scientist would prize. Wild optical illusions will boggle the mind and astound the eye.

Table of Contents

Lab Coat Magicians	p. 8
Using This Book	p. 10
The Tricks
The Balancing Bottles	p. 14
The Great Phone Book Strength Test	p. 16
Magnetic Water	p. 17
Egg with Legs	p. 18
In-egg-splicable	p. 19
Eggs of Steel	p. 20
Won't Do It, Can't Make Me	p. 21
Air Cannon	p. 22
Light-headed	p. 24
Is the Hand Quicker than the Eye?	p. 26
Boiling Ice	p. 27
Pinky Power	p. 28
Chair Lift	p. 29
Balloon Kebabs	p. 30
Balloon First-Aid	p. 31
Bed of Nails	p. 32
Napping on Nails, Walking on Fire	p. 34
Simply Marble-ous	p. 35
Sharp as a Knife	p. 36
The Big Bounce	p. 37
Soda Squirt	p. 38
Can Crusher	p. 40
The Science of Flying and Floating	p. 41
Up, Down, and All Around	p. 42
The Cackling Cup	p. 44
One Tough Toothpick	p. 45
Hot or Cold	p. 46
Swimsuit, Sunblock, Ice Axe	p. 47
Ice Fishing	p. 48
Fireproof!	p. 49
The Precarious Penny	p. 50
What Moves You?	p. 52
Balancing Act	p. 53
One-Buck Bunny Hop	p. 54
Magic Hand	p. 55
More is Less	p. 56
Tightrope Walking Water	p. 57
No-Sip Straws	p. 53
Waterproof Paper	p. 59
Eye Fooling	p. 60
Umm, There's a Hole in Your Hand	p. 61
Something Fishy	p. 62
Materialize This!	p. 63
The Spinning Disk	p. 64
Quivering Hand	p. 66
Magic Cloth	p. 67
How Houdini Did It	p. 68
Disappearing Water	p. 69
Electrified Fruit	p. 70
Tough Tissue	p. 71
Firestarter Fingers	p. 72
Money Grabber	p. 73
Perfectly Peculiar Paper Rings	p. 74
Hopping Dice	p. 76
Take a Bow!	p. 77
Glossary	p. 78
Metric Conversions	p. 80
Template	p. 80
Index	p. 80
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