Science in Seconds for Kids: Over 100 Experiments You Can Do in Ten Minutes or Less, 2nd Edition

follow Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction How This Book Is Organized Tips for Completing the Activities Air Dry Paper: Can Paper Stay Dry in Water? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Elastic Air: Why Does a Balloon Filled with Air Bounce? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Air Rocket: What Happens to Air When You Squeeze It? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Air Push: Air Pressure Is All Around Us Materials Try This What’s Going On? Air Support: How Does the Shape of an Object Affect How It Falls Through the Air? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Bottle Balloon: What Happens to Air When It Is Heated and Cooled? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Book Lift: Can Air Lift Heavy Objects? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Lifting Things with No Hands: How Can Air Lift Planes? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Dusty Air: What Is in the Air? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Living Things Whopping Hoppers: How Far Can Grasshoppers Hop? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Smart Skin: How Do Earthworms Stay So Clean? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Break an Egg: Why Can’t You Break an Egg by Squeezing? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Egg Shape: Why Aren’t Eggs Perfectly Round? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Seeing Without Eyes: Can You See with Your Fingertips? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Bendy Trees: How Do Tree Rings Help Trees Not Break? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Tree Curves: Why Are Tree Trunks Curved at the Bottom? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Slow Fly: What Happens to a Fly in Cold Weather? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Fish Skeleton: What Does the Skeleton of a Fish Do? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Colors Waves of Color: How Can You Visualize Light Waves? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Water Rainbow: How Do Water and Sunlight Create a Rainbow? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Secondary Colors: How Are Colors Made on Electronic Screens? Materials Try This What’s Going On? New Mix: What Happens When You Look Through Two Colors at Once? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Balloon Stretch: Why Does the Color of a Balloon Become Lighter When Air Is Blown into It? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Hot Colors: How Do Colors Relate to Heat? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Color Dyes: How Do Fabrics Respond to Different Dye Strengths? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Spinning Colors: How Does the Eye See Colors That Are Moving Very Rapidly? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Chromatography: Can Colors Be Separated After They Have Been Mixed? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Energy Marshmallow Launcher: How Does Energy from a Balloon Launch Marshmallows? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Hot Hand: How Does Friction Create Heat? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Hot Ice: How Does Pressure Affect Energy? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Spicy Music: How Does Energy Create Sound? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Sun Burst: How Powerful Is the Sun’s Heat? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Button Spinner: How Can Energy Be Changed from One Form to Another? Material Try This What’s Going On? Wind Spin: How Can the Wind Produce Energy? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Easy Electromagnet: How Can You Make a Magnet with Electricity? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Raisin Raising: How Can the Energy in Chemicals Produce Movement? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Gravity Balancing Act: What Is an Object’s Center of Gravity? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Penny Balloon: How Can You Change the Center of Gravity of an Object? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Book Balance: How Can You Make a Stack of Books Lean Without Falling Over? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Gravity Balance: How Can You Make a Yardstick Balance at Different Points? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Pendulum Plus: Does the Weight of a Pendulum Affect the Timing of the Swing? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Paper Plunge: Does Shape Influence Gravity? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Gravity Pull: Why Don’t Liquids Flow at the Same Rate? Materials Try This What’s Going On? The Human Body Pulse Watch: How Can You Tell Your Heart Is Beating? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Pulse Change: How Does Your Heart Know When to Speed Up? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Heart Sounds: How Can You Hear Your Heart? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Muscle Bound: How Do Muscles Work? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Bone Brilliance: How Do Bones Know How to Change? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Eye Light: How Do You See in the Dark? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Weird Wonder: What Happens If You Stare at One Color for a Long Time? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Crying Eyes: Why Do Onions Make You Weep? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Old Shoes: Why Do Shoes Wear Out in Different Places? Materials Try This What’s Going On? All Together Now: How Closely Related Are We to Other Creatures? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Light Tiny Mirror: How Does a Spoon Reflect Images? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Bending Straws: What Happens to Light When It Travels Through Water? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Light Beams: Why Does Light Make the Sky Look Blue? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Stick Mirror: Can You See Around Corners? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Easy Kaleidoscope: How Can Reflections Be Multiplied to Make Interesting Geometric Shapes? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Infinite Mirrors: Does Light Go On Forever? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Comb Beams: How Do the Angles of the Sun’s Rays Affect Their Strength? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Moon Phases: How Does the Sun Create the Patterns of Light Reflections We See on the Moon? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Machines Lever Lift: How Can a Lever Help Lift Objects? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Easy Move: How Can Wheels Be Used to Decrease Friction? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Sinking Submarine: How Does a Submarine Float and Sink? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Simple Siphon: How Does a Siphon Work? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Sand Clock: How Can You Make a Simple Clock? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Turning Time: How Do Gears Work? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Pulling Pulleys: How Can You Use Pulleys to Move Objects Across a Room? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Pull Ups: How Can a Pulley Help Lift Objects? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Ramp Marbles: How Can Ramps Make Lifting Easier? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Magnetism Making Moves: How Do the Ends of Magnets Affect Each Other? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Force Fields: What Do Magnetic Forces Look Like? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Flying Paper Clip: How Can You Make a Paper Clip Levitate? Materials Try This What’s Going On? New Magnet: How Can You Make a Magnet? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Homemade Compass: How Can You Make a Compass? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Wrong Readings: Does a Compass Always Give the Correct Direction? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Magnet Strength: Which Is More Powerful, a Bar Magnet or a Horseshoe Magnet? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Magnet Chain: How Can Objects Become Temporarily Magnetized? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Magnetic Breakfast: What Can a Magnet Find in Cereal? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Magnification Water Magnifier: Where Did the Idea of Magnification Come From? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Comb Rays: How Does a Magnifying Lens Affect Light Rays? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Magnifying Measurement: How Does the Distance of an Object from a Lens Affect the Object’s Magnification? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Double Convex: How Does a Double Convex Lens Work? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Word Flip: How Can You Make Words Turn Upside Down? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Round Works: Why Must a Magnifying Lens Always Be Round? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Shadow Look: How Does a Magnifying Lens Affect Shadows? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Eyeglass Lenses: How Do Eyeglasses Help People See Better? Materials Try This What’s Going On Telescope Image: How Does a Telescope Work? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Water Sticky Water: Can You Pick Stuff Up with Water? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Water Skin: Why Does Water Form a Surface? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Circle Thread: How Can You Change Surface Tension? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Water Vapor: What Causes Water to Collect on the Outside of a Cold Glass? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Window Fog: Does Your Breath Contain Water? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Breathing Dirt: Does Water Ever Fall Up? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Sinking Ship: How Does a Boat Float? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Leakproof: Can You Puncture a Bag of Water and Have Nothing Leak Out? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Level Look: Why Does Water Form a Level Surface? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Weather Wind Sail: How Does the Sun Affect Air? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Wind Direction: How Can You Instantly Tell Which Direction the Wind Is Coming From? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Wind Wheel: How Can You Tell How Fast the Wind Is Blowing? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Wind Chill: How Does Wind Affect Temperature? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Dew Point: When Will Dew Form on the Grass? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Create Lightning: Where Does Lightning Come From? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Thunder Wonder: Why Does Thunder Arrive After Lightning? Materials Try This What’s Going On? No Pressure: How Does a Barometer Help Predict the Weather? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Cricket Thermometer: How Can Animals Forecast Weather Conditions? Materials Try This What’s Going On? Glossary Further Reading Index EULA