Will my hot chocolate cool down faster if I add the cold milk now or later? Will ketchup flow faster if it's stirred first? Taking first place in the science fair has never been so much fun! These biology, chemistry, and physics experiments, devised by a real scientist and former high school chemistry teacher, really rock. That's because each activity answers questions that actually fascinate kids--whether they're exploring the laws of motion by smashing eggs against a wall, learning how to use diapers to prevent fire, or going "Supersonic" as they measure the speed of sound. Also, there's great advice on designing your own experiments, catching errors that could affect the results; and presenting the project so that it will impress the judges.

First Place Science Fair Projects For Inquisitive Kids

Children's Books

Harris, Elizabeth Snoke

Science, Nature & How It Works

Union Square & Co.

Blood, gore, and mysterynow, that’s way cool! Kids just love crime scene investigations, and they’ll get a thrill from turning their passion into a blue-ribbon science fair project. This fantastic color collection presents more than 20 great experiments, broken into exciting topics such as blood and guts, eyewitness accounts, and physical evidence. Best of all, children use actual CSI techniques: they’ll lift fingerprints, extract DNA, record skid marks, and see what a few key clues can reveal about a crime. Then they get to analyze the data, and come to their own conclusions. And don’t worry: there are no real crime scenes, dead bodies, or even suspects involved! (For example, an old steak demonstrates the process of decomposition.) In addition to the awesome projects, there’s tons of fun CSI history, careers, and cases.

Crime Scene Science Fair Projects

Kids are participating in science fairs earlier than everand what better way to get them started than with this exciting new guide designed especially for younger children? It’s part of Lark’s successful Science Fair program, and it makes fairs fun, accessible, and educational for early primary grade students. In addition to a super Official All You Need to Know to Do a Great Science Fair Project” section, this fully-illustrated collection features 25 curriculum-appropriate activities to choose from, plus guidance on how to perform experiments, analyze the data, and draw conclusions. And kids will love the projects, which include preserving jack-o-lanterns, studying the domino effect, making fruit and vegetable dyes, spinning eggs, and doing some rubber-band bungee.

Yikes! Wow! Yuck! Fun Experiments for Your First Science Fair

Perfect for tomorrow's scientists and engineers, this book features tons of fascinating step-by-step, do-it-yourself projects that will stir up their curiosity about the fascinating world. Simple, colorful step-by-step directions accompany each experiment and project, so kids can easily follow along with minimal parental supervision. Inquiry-based projects include a paper airplane launcher, ice cube architecture, and much more! A fun and compelling read for the whole family, this book unlocks a world of surprises that will instill a lifelong love and fascination for young readers and future scientists and engineers of all ages.

Build-It-Yourself Engineering Projects Volume 1: Make Bridges, Towers, Domes & More

Arts, Music & Photography

Walter Foster Jr. ― Quarto Library

Perfect for tomorrow's scientists and engineers, this book features tons of fascinating step-by-step, do-it-yourself projects that will stir up their curiosity about the fascinating world. Simple, colorful step-by-step directions accompany each experiment and project, so kids can easily follow along with minimal parental supervision. Inquiry-based projects include a straw rocket, a rockin' roller coaster, and much more! A fun and compelling read for the whole family, this book unlocks a world of surprises that will instill a lifelong love and fascination for young readers and future scientists and engineers of all ages.

Build-It-Yourself Engineering Projects Volume 2: Make Launchers, Toys, Airplanes & Racers

Perfect for tomorrow's scientists and engineers, this book features tons of fascinating step-by-step, do-it-yourself projects that will stir up their curiosity about the fascinating world. Simple, colorful step-by-step directions accompany each experiment and project, so kids can easily follow along with minimal parental supervision. Inquiry-based projects include a far-out fort, a mechanical hand, and much more! A fun and compelling read for the whole family, this book unlocks a world of surprises that will instill a lifelong love and fascination for young readers and future scientists and engineers of all ages.

Build-It-Yourself Engineering Projects Volume 3: Make Kaleidoscopes, Mazes, Motors & More

Perfect for tomorrow's scientists and engineers, this book features tons of fascinating step-by-step, do-it-yourself projects that will stir up their curiosity about the fascinating world. Simple, colorful step-by-step directions accompany each experiment and project, so kids can easily follow along with minimal parental supervision. Inquiry-based projects include a seismometer, an art-bot, and much more! A fun and compelling read for the whole family, this book unlocks a world of surprises that will instill a lifelong love and fascination for young readers and future scientists and engineers of all ages.

Build-It-Yourself Engineering Projects Volume 4: Make Bath Bombs, Bouncy Balls, Solar Cookers & More

Plastic humanoids, dancing spaghetti, and rubber eggs: something wacky’s going on hereand kids will love it! After all, what could be more fun than peeking into a mad scientist’s notebook and finding 50 fizzing, popping projects that will light up their own laboratoriesand minds? Young Einsteins (and Dr. Frankensteins) will discover really cool things to do, including building a hovercraft and rocket, boiling ice without melting it, and making their fingers smoke. Notes from the mad scientist himself on richly illustrated and lined pages make the projects even more entertaining! But don’t be fooled: these irresistible experiments demonstrate important principles of physics, biology, and chemistry. So kids will safely learn all about scienceeven if they’re too busy making a mess to realize it.

The Mad Scientist's Notebook: Warning: Dangerously Wacky Experiments Inside

Newcomb, Rain

Going green is a hot topicand a hot science fair project. Author and scientist Elizabeth Snoke Harris knows what impresses, and she provides plenty of winning ideas, along with step-by-step guidance to insure that the end result is a success. Show how to harness energy with windmills, make a biogas generator, and create alternative fuels. Demonstrate green power with recycled paper, solar building, and compact fluorescent light bulbs. Test the ozone, be a garbage detective,” and discuss how to reverse global warming. The importance of what children learn will go even beyond the science fair: they’ll have the knowledge to understand what’s happening to Planet Earthand the desire to do something eco-friendly every day.

Save the Earth Science Experiments: Science Fair Projects for Eco-Kids

Teen & Young Adult

Education & Reference

There is always time to conduct science experiments, because science never sleeps! 365 Weird &amp; Wonderful Science Experiments gives you a full year of kid-friendly experiments to try alone or supervised. This fact- and fun-filled book of science includes hundreds of simple, kid-tested science experiments. All of which can be done with items from around the house, and require little to no supervision! Whether you're making your own slime, rockets, crystals, and hovercrafts or performing magic (science!) tricks and using science to become a secret agent, this book has something for every type of curious kid. Each experiment features safety precautions, materials needed, step-by-step instructions with illustrations, fun facts, and further explorations. With 365 Weird &amp; Wonderful Science Experiments you will:<ul>
<li>Create a drinkable rainbow</li>
<li>Make a bowling ball float</li>
<li>Capture a cloud</li>
<li>Build furniture out of newspapers</li>
<li>Blow bouncing bubbles that don’t burst</li>
<li>Plus 360 other weird and wonderful experiments.</li>
</ul>
Engaging, encouraging, and inspiring, 365 Weird &amp; Wonderful Science Experiments is every budding scientists go-to, hands-on guide for learning the fundamentals of science and exploring the fascinating world around them, just like a real scientist.

365 Weird & Wonderful Science Experiments: An experiment for every day of the year (STEAM 365)

MoonDance Press

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