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Author Name: Vancleave, Janice
Title: Janice VanCleave's Science Project Workbook: Grades 3-6 (Janice VanCleave Science for Fun)
Binding: Paperback
Size: 1076x846x114 224
Publisher: New York John Wiley & Sons 2003
ISBN Number: 0-471-46647-6 / 9780471466475
Book ID number: 2883
Make the difference in your students? education with these hands-on science projects and activities Whether they are just beginning to study science in earnest, or gearing up for this year?s science fair, students will appreciate this handy collection of 225 fun and easy-to-do experiments. Each experiment includes an individual worksheet, which students, parents, and teachers can use to keep track of progress and to brainstorm science ideas. There?s also a complete answer key in the back of the book, which students can use for immediate feedback and teachers will find invaluable for making assessments. The topics covered come from the science standards and span the science curriculum, including: Astronomy Biology Chemistry Earth Science Physics All the activities can be done either at home or in the classroom with inexpensive and easy-to-find materials. About the Author: Janice VanCleave is a former teacher, whose science experiment books for kids of all ages have sold over 2 million copies. Students and teachers alike have come to love her unique combination of serious education and playful hands-on activities. Children's Literature - Susan Hepler, Ph.D. The author, a science educator, suggests numerous activities that can be done at home or in the classroom with easy-to-find materials in this reprint of a previously published sourcebook. Experiments or projects (219 of them) are grouped into five categories: astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth science, and physics, and explore what happens when, for instance, when you smell intensely, or add antacid tablets to water and monitor temperature changes, or apply straws under a heavy box. Experiments include a purpose, and at the book's end, a short discussion of the results you should have gotten and why this was so. Left pages explain procedures in clear, numbered processes. All right pages present a three-part worksheet with the same procedures: the recording of the data, observations, drawings, etc.; the results and conclusions, including whether your predictions were right or not; and "What's Next?," a section that asks how you could improve this experiment or what you could also investigate. While the pink background will make these pages difficult to duplicate cleanly, teachers might retype the three questions for reproduction and use in class. While the experiments are friendly, some explanations included in the back refer to knowledge children not might have or be able to master quickly, such as the introduction of terms (atmospheric pressure, differentiating adsorb from absorb; lines of force) and so will need some further explanation. The experiments are fun and taken as a whole, would enliven any school unit on some facet of a subject. Home schoolers will welcome the format, as well, as these activities encourage self-discovery and reflection that would be sharable orally withother family members. Accompanying each procedure are line drawings (blue with orange) that show close-ups of what is to be constructed or what is happening. 2003 (orig. 1997), Wiley, Ages 7 to 11.
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