Introduces the characteristics and actions of the wind through simple hands-on activities.

A biography of Polish-French physicist and chemist Marie Curie, who was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and won a Nobel prize in both physics and in chemistry.

Learn all about the science of how ice changes its state from a solid to a liquid.

Experiments with food demonstrate various scientific principles and produce an eatable result. Includes fruit drinks, grape jelly, muffins, chop suey, yogurt, and junket.

This book provides comic illustrations and photomicrographs that describe how the body heals a broken bone.

Science projects in the areas of chemistry, earth science, physical science, the human body, and technology.You'll find some experiments that are quick and easy and others that are very challenging. The materials you'll need come from the supermarket, the toy store,the hardware store, the stationary store, and the drugstore.

Focuses on the land, animals, plants, and climate of Alaska, presenting it as an example of a place where it is so cold your hair can freeze and break off.

Renowned science author Vicki Cobb has concocted just the right formula for making scientific principles easy for even the youngest kids to understand.

Describes more than 60 impossible tricks, each based on scientific principles which are explained in accompanying text.

Surveys the living conditions in Arizona's Sonora Desert for the people and unusual animals that live there. Also describes the engineering accomplishment of Hoover Dam.