Authors:Shar Levine, Leslie Johnstone,
Publisher: Sterling
Keywords: book, magnet
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 1998-12-31
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0806999446
ISBN-13: 9780806999449

Find out all about magnetic fields by trying all 39 of these "magnetic magic" tricks, games, and experiments. Discover what sticks to a magnet and what doesn’t. Count how many paper clips your magnet will pick up. Then get two magnets and create a variety of dazzling magnetic fields. Make one end of your magnet attract objects and the other end push them away. Take a picture of magnetic "suntan lines" with iron filings and light-sensitive paper. You can even build your own electromagnet with a piece of wire, a nail, and a battery, then make it ring a bell, turn a wheel, pick up objects,

Authors:Shar Levine, Leslie Johnstone,
Publisher: Sterling
Keywords: nature, nifty, experiments, science, first
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2006-08-28
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 1402740522
ISBN-13: 9781402740527

Plants that grow and blossom, intriguing wildlife, water and dirt, and the environment: by looking at all the wonderful elements of nature, kids will begin to discover science principles in everyday life. As they carry out experiments with handy items, they’ll uncover the reasons why leaves change color in the fall, why ants march in a line, and lots of life’s other fascinating mysteries. Young scientists will check out where seeds come from and cultivate their own. Take a close look at a ladybug’s spots and find out what they mean. See what happens when oil gets in water, what’s insid

Authors:Shar Levine, Leslie Johnstone,
Publisher: Sterling
Keywords: microscope, guide, ultimate
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1402743297
ISBN-13: 9781402743290

Looking at little things—things too small to see with the naked eye—can be big fun. It’s certainly smart science, and award-winning authors Shar Levine and Leslie Johnstone are here to show kids the basics of creating their own professional-quality slides and using their own microscopes. A whole world will open up to budding scientists as they learn to identify the microscope’s different pieces, practice focusing, and prepare different kinds of samples for viewing. Illustrated throughout with photomicrographs (pictures taken through a microscope), and complete with a reproducible form

Authors:Shar Levine, Leslie Johnstone,
Publisher: Sterling
Keywords: science, bathtub
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2006-08-28
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1402740948
ISBN-13: 9781402740947

Kids love the tub—and it makes a really cool “laboratory” for carrying out experiments that are gallons of fun. Find out why some toys sink but rubber ducky always floats. Make a “wave machine,” a water cannon that blasts mind-boggling explosions of liquid; zippy hydroplanes—or peer through periscopes and prepare perfect bubble solution. Every page bursts with brilliant drawings, and loads of photographs that display the entire process.

Authors:Shar Levine, Michael Ouchi,
Publisher: Sterling
Keywords: top, projects, over, tying, balloon, extreme
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2007-07-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1402724659
ISBN-13: 9781402724657

Here are more crafty twists and turns from the authors of the popular Ultimate Balloon Book—but this time, they’re going way over the top with creativity. These balloon sculptures use new techniques like the roll lock and the starburst, and they’re a little more complicated to yield awesome results. But don’t worry: each step is so well illustrated and captured in such detail that you won’t have any trouble following the process. Just check out the balloon basics and the dos and don’ts to get started making everything from a basket with fruit to a balloon corsage for your wrist.

Authors:Shar Levine, Leslie Johnstone,
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Keywords: plants, own, class, ferns, flowering, mosses
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2010-02-15
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0778753905
ISBN-13: 9780778753902

Authors:Shar Levine, Leslie Johnstone,
Publisher: Crabtree Pub Co
Keywords: animals, class, own, fish, reptiles, mammals, birds, amphibians
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2010-02-15
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0778753867
ISBN-13: 9780778753865