Junk Drawer Ecology 50 Awesome Experiments That Don't Cost a Thing

by Mercer, Bobby

• ISBN13: 9781641605496
• ISBN10: 1641605499
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2021-12-14
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Summary

Kids of all ages can use recycled and repurposed household items to complete exciting and green ecology experiments

Junk Drawer Ecology is a hands-on guide to saving the planet. Fun, free science activities help kids of all ages learn about the science of our planet’s ecology. The environment is changing every day, and we can help slow that change. Using free or low-cost things children already have around their homes, these activities are perfect to stimulate young brains.
 
Readers will learn about the importance of the polar regions without leaving their communities, about new ways to cut our dependence on fossil fuels, about all forms of pollution, and how they can make a difference.

Junk Drawer Ecology will give inquisitive kids many hours of fun and help them learn at the same time.

Author Biography

Bobby Mercer has been sharing the fun of science for more than two decades as a high school physics teacher. He is the author of the Junk Drawer series, including Junk Drawer Biology, Junk Drawer Chemistry, and Junk Drawer Geometry. He lives with his family outside of Asheville, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
Mini Greenhouse
Larger Greenhouses
Self-Watering Pots
Regrow Your Own Veggies
Solar Still
Cool Dirt or Hot Dirt
Landfill Design
Pick a Good Color
Recycling Paper
Milk and Vinegar Plastic
Paper Straws
Solar Pizza Box
Sun Power
Corn Starch Plastic
Keep the Heat In or Out
2: Animals and Plants
Yarn Food Chains
Yarn Food Webs
Decomposing Food Circles
Fish Food Chain
Food Chain Pyramids
Predators and Prey
Carnivores Eat Meat Triangle
Counting Fish in the Ocean
Paperclip Biodiversity
Random Sampling
Oily Feathers
Pollination Practice
Selective Nets
SPF for Life
Symbiotic Emojis
Ten Percent Dining
3: Water and Land
Paper Plate Biomes
Fire Triangles
Ice Shelf Melting
Melting Polar Ice Caps
Microclimates
Runoff vs Groundwater Pollution
Sinkholes
Stop the Acid Rain
Water Cycle Bag
A Cup Full of Rain
Edible Aquifers
Mining for Chips
Ocean Currents
Tasty Soil
4: Air
The Air We Breathe
Clean Balloons
Sticky Note Carbon Cycle
Capture the Carbon
Paperclip Smog
Cyclone Air Cleaner