FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman: Ruff Ruffman's 44 Favorite Science Activities

Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman

by Candlewick Press, Wgbh (Illustrator)

Delve into dozens of entertaining, offbeat science projects with amusing commentary from Ruff Ruffman, the lovable host of FETCH!

Families and teachers looking for a fun way to add science to kids’ agendas need look no further. This full-color book of Ruff Ruffman’s all-time favorite activities offers a chance to try real science at home, with special tips for turning the activities into science-fair projects. Ruff simplifies the scientific method for kids and shares basic setup and safety procedures for creating a laboratory and keeping a lab notebook. From there, it’s on to step-by-step directions for forty-four fun, interactive activities using household items. Icons indicate difficulty levels as well as activities that require grown-up help, while a topical index allows readers to search by subject matter. Triple-dog-dare junior scientists to try them all!

132 pages, Paperback

First published March 10, 2015

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Reviews

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

In this PBS Kids activity book pulling from the Fetch with Ruff Ruffman show kids many activities and experiments to explore science at school or home. Ruff begins the activity book with Lab Rules/Safety Features, science fair tips, and even the scientific method, plus Ruff introduces the Fetch! Challenge to gameify learning. Through fun illustrations and informative how-to text readers can learn about different activities, using chemistry, engineering, food science, body science, secret agent activities, movement and motion, and sounds. Each experiment includes a summary of the experiment, supply list, clear directions, “chew on this” and some even include a “dig deeper” option to learn more about the science activity or experiment.