Product Description: Why does a knuckleball flutter? Why do belly flops hurt so much? Why would a quarterback prefer a deflated football? Here are 54 all-star experiments that demonstrate the scientific principles powering a wide variety of sports and activities—and offer insights that can help you improve your own athletic skills...read more

Product Description: The award-winning Icelandic educational television host and creator of Villi's Science Book and the Sid's Science Book series introduces basic scientific concepts through an accessible collection of do-it-yourself experiments.

Product Description: Help science make sense with Mind Webs! Twelve beautifully illustrated webs show how science works in a truly fascinating way. Mind webs, also known as spidergrams or mind maps, are great for learning about the science of electricity and magnetism...read more

Product Description: Mind webs, also known as spidergrams or mind maps, are great for learning about the science of forces and motion. Find out about friction, gravity, resistance, balanced and unbalanced forces, floating and upthrust, pressure and about Newton's Laws of Motion...read more

What makes ice melt? Which materials are strongest? Why do some objects sink?Packed with fun experiments to show you how different materials work!Series DescriptionLearn about light, electricity, and gravity through practical activities and easy-to-follow explanations of the major elements of science.Using basic experiments and activities, children will learn about the world around them. Concise text and fantastic photographs provide a clear guide toscientific principles surrounding each subject.The series Why It Works includes:Electricity 978-1-59566-559-1Light & Dark 978-1-59566-556-0Material 978-1-59566-557-7Pushes & Pulls 978-1-59566-558-4

Product Description: Hop on board the space shuttle and get ready for the ride of your life as you explore deep space with your five fellow space cadets. This journey of discovery takes you through our local solar system and beyond, to galaxies far and wide...read more

Product Description: Sounds are all around us. Clap your hands, snap your fingers: You’re making sounds. Read and find out how people and animals use different kinds of sounds to communicate. With colorful illustrations from Anna Chernyshova and engaging text from Wendy Pfeffer, Sounds All Around is a fascinating look into how sound works!Featuring rich vocabulary bolded throughout the text, this brand-new edition of a 1999 title includes brand-new illustrations by Anna Chernyshova...read more

Product Description: The revolution in Transportation Technology has changed our world. This book outlines the science behind the way ships, planes, trains, and automobiles move, as well as how people can survive for short periods underwater. There are diagrams, historic photos, sidebars, and fact boxes that describe travel from the roads of Rome to high-speed rail...read more

This exciting new series satisfies the most enquiring young scientific minds! With a back-to-basics approach to the core topics, these books investigate science in a clear and concise way and explain how science is relevant to children's everyday world. The book features a bright, contemporary design and fantastic photographs and the series covers all key science topics for this age group. Writen by award-winning science authors, the humorous cartoon characters engage readers.

Product Description: The suns importance to Earth and the solar system cant be exaggerated; its the linchpin for life itself. The suns structure, atmosphere, and other features are introduced in collaboration with related mathematical problems in this noteworthy companion to the elementary science and math curricula...read more

Product Description: Scientists can change the world! Albert Einstein's theories helped us understand how light works. This title introduces budding scientists and engineers to Albert Einstein whose discoveries changed the course of science.

Product Description: The planet Saturn, with its magnificent rings, is one of the most jaw-dropping sights in our solar system. The striking photographs in this attractive volume invite readers to dive into the essential facts and science vocabulary in the text...read more

Product Description: Mars is perhaps the most thrilling planet these days. With rovers exploring its surface and manned missions in the works, people are wondering if Mars is our next home. In this high-interest book, readers will learn more about Earths neighbor, including what its climate and surface are like, why its called the Red Planet, and about the recent discovery of water on its surface...read more

Product Description: The moon is the only celestial body that humans have set foot on. Some of the knowledge we have of the moon involves numbers, including measurements such as diameter and area. Science and math are complementary foci in this engaging volume, full of beautiful photographs, interesting information, and corresponding math problems...read more

Product Description: Scientists can change the world! Sir Isaac Newton's experiments helped us understand mass. This title introduces budding scientists and engineers to Sir Isaac Newton whose discoveries changed the course of science.

Product Description: Super Simple Experiments with Forces gives young readers the tools they need to start experimenting. Budding scientists will learn touse friction to lift a bottle and use magnets to move things and more! Each project has easy-to-read directions paired with step-by-step photographs, while colorful graphics describe the super science at work...read more

Product Description: The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is an intriguing area of our solar system. Scientists have counted over 670,000 known asteroids there, but there could be millions more not yet found. Readers will discover much more about the asteroid belt in this high-interest book, which blends science and math...read more

Product Description: Jupiter, named for the mythological king of the gods, demands a lot of respect in the night sky. Young scientists are invited to travel to this gas giant while taking part in math missions along their journey. By completing each mission using familiar math operations, theyll discover fascinating facts about Jupiter, its rings, and its moons...read more

Product Description: Some of the coolest science information in our world is out of it, in space. From how the celestial bodies move around our solar system to peoples ability to travel in it, space science is endlessly fascinating. Its also an incredible vehicle for physics learning...read more

Product Description: From refrigerators to TVs to compasses, science is at work all around us! Magnetism at Workintroduces young readers to a physical science concept.

Product Description: Scientists can change the world! Benjamin Franklin's experiments helped us understand electricity. This title introduces budding scientists and engineers to Benjamin Franklin whose discoveries changed the course of science.

Product Description: Fact filled and image packed, this lively volume captures all the excitement of rainbow sightings after rainy days. Readers who delight in the sight of these multihued arcs will be thrilled to learn more about rainbows and related atmospheric phenomena, including moonbows, halos, and sun dogs...read more

Imagine a world without light. What would it be like? Dark, cold, and lifeless! In Explore Light and Optics! With 25 Great Projects, readers ages 7 through 10 find out why light is so important to our world. We use light to communicate. Because of light, there are natural phenomena such as rainbows and the auroras. And it’s light that provides living things with the energy they need to exist.In Explore Light and Optics!, readers learn how light travels, how the eye works, and why we can see objects. They read about optical inventions that changed the world, including microscopes, telescopes, and cameras. Kids are introduced to modern inventions such as lasers, solar planes, and the hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber optics that make it possible to transmit data all over the world.Through projects ranging from making a spectroscope and concocting invisible ink to creating a periscope and experimenting with lenses, children discover how light can be bent, bounced, and broken. Fun facts, jokes, cartoon illustrations and links to online primary sources spark an interest in the fascinating role light plays in our lives from the sun shining overhead to the cellphone in our back pocket.