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SUPER Science Experiments: At Home: Try these in the kitchen, bathroom, and all over your home!
With more than 80 fun experiments, SUPER Science At Home is the ultimate lab book for kids who are stuck at home!
This fact- and fun-filled book includes tons of simple, kid-tested science experiments, many of which can be done with items found around the house, and require little to no supervision! That’s right— no adult help needed. That means no grown-ups doing all the fun stuff while you watch. You can do lots of messy, cool, mind-blowing experiments all by yourself! All the supplies you need are probably already in your home. No fancy gadgets or doohickeys needed!
Whether you’re making a soap-powered boat, creating indoor rainbows, or performing magic (science!) tricks, this book has something for everyone. Each experiment features safety precautions, materials needed, step-by-step instructions with illustrations, fun facts, and further explorations.
With SUPER Science At Home, kid scientists like you
At once engaging, encouraging, and inspiring, the SUPER Science Experiments series provides budding scientists with go-to, hands-on guides for learning the fundamentals of science and exploring the fascinating world around them. Also in this series, check Cool Creations , Build It , and Outdoor Fun .
There’s no better boredom-buster than a science experiment. You will learn something and astound and amaze your friends and family. So, what are you waiting for? Get experimenting!
This fact- and fun-filled book includes tons of simple, kid-tested science experiments, many of which can be done with items found around the house, and require little to no supervision! That’s right— no adult help needed. That means no grown-ups doing all the fun stuff while you watch. You can do lots of messy, cool, mind-blowing experiments all by yourself! All the supplies you need are probably already in your home. No fancy gadgets or doohickeys needed!
Whether you’re making a soap-powered boat, creating indoor rainbows, or performing magic (science!) tricks, this book has something for everyone. Each experiment features safety precautions, materials needed, step-by-step instructions with illustrations, fun facts, and further explorations.
With SUPER Science At Home, kid scientists like you
At once engaging, encouraging, and inspiring, the SUPER Science Experiments series provides budding scientists with go-to, hands-on guides for learning the fundamentals of science and exploring the fascinating world around them. Also in this series, check Cool Creations , Build It , and Outdoor Fun .
There’s no better boredom-buster than a science experiment. You will learn something and astound and amaze your friends and family. So, what are you waiting for? Get experimenting!
64 pages, Paperback
Published April 14, 2020
6 people want to read
About the author
Elizabeth Snoke Harris
21 books13 followersBeth has been involved in science education for over 20 years in the classroom, research facilities and museums. She loves sharing fun experiments with anyone who will listen and with whatever is handy. When she's not working on science curriculum projects or leading STEM field trips at the local roller rink, she serves as web master for science education organizations. Her other hobbies include playing with her kids, gardening, and beekeeping in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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March 21, 2020
This was a less successful book in this new series of science experiment books for us. It's packed with simple science activities but most of them were a little too simple for my gang, or they were ones we've already done plenty over the years. I looked through it extensively yesterday to try to find some fun activities for my bored 8 and 12 year-olds (yes, even homeschoolers are used to getting out of the house and get bored when they're cooped up at home) and we didn't really find many that caught their interest.
Examples of the activities -- see how many drops of water you can put on a penny to learn about surface tension, make elephant toothpaste (a project my kids love but that uses too much of our yeast and dish soap to do as often as they'd like!), make a bowl look like it's disappeared under another bowl by filling it with vegetable oil, rub things like a potato and shaving cream on squares of a bathroom mirror to see which ones don't steam up, and adding salt to a bathtub to make a bowling ball float. Each one tells the science behind what happens afterwards.
These are good projects to teach science, but not the greatest at just being boredom busters. This would be a good book to keep on hand as a supplement to science studies. It would be useful if some sort of index at the start pointed parents to activities that correspond with topics and concepts. Younger kids are likely to get more out of it than kids who are already used to doing fun at-home science.
I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.
Examples of the activities -- see how many drops of water you can put on a penny to learn about surface tension, make elephant toothpaste (a project my kids love but that uses too much of our yeast and dish soap to do as often as they'd like!), make a bowl look like it's disappeared under another bowl by filling it with vegetable oil, rub things like a potato and shaving cream on squares of a bathroom mirror to see which ones don't steam up, and adding salt to a bathtub to make a bowling ball float. Each one tells the science behind what happens afterwards.
These are good projects to teach science, but not the greatest at just being boredom busters. This would be a good book to keep on hand as a supplement to science studies. It would be useful if some sort of index at the start pointed parents to activities that correspond with topics and concepts. Younger kids are likely to get more out of it than kids who are already used to doing fun at-home science.
I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.
April 25, 2020
Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.
SUPER Science Experiments: At Home is a new STEAM activity guide for young readers (and their resource adults/caregivers) by Elizabeth Snoke Harris. Released 14th April 2020 by Quarto on their MoonDance Press imprint, it's 64 pages and available in paperback and ebook formats.
Everyone needs fun learning ideas for youngsters (and adults) in these bizarre days. Science and learning have always been my go-to stress and boredom busters whenever I have to stay home and can't go out. This collection is simple, full of easy to follow experiments and activities, and uses easy to find ingredients which most readers already have available around the house.
There are a number of activities which can be done by kids themselves without supervision. All safety information and tips are clearly delineated in the text. The tutorials themselves are accessible and written simply in easy to understand language. They're varied in scope and concepts including learning in physics, chemistry, cell biology (with a truly spiffy DNA isolation exercise), and interdisciplinary experiments.
The illustrations are simple and well done. They don't detract from the experiments. Each of the exercises has a list of ingredients, step by step instructions, and a "What's Happening" explanation of the relevant concepts at the end of each one. I didn't count how many were included in this book, but there must be close to 100. The tutorial measurements are given in American standard measures (pounds, cups, and so forth). There is also a very abbreviated index at the back of the book. It should be noted that these are *simple* experiments, and that some of them use quite a lot of easily sourced materials (several pounds of salt for one exercise).
This would make a super book for science homeschooling units or even online school instruction sessions.
Four stars.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
SUPER Science Experiments: At Home is a new STEAM activity guide for young readers (and their resource adults/caregivers) by Elizabeth Snoke Harris. Released 14th April 2020 by Quarto on their MoonDance Press imprint, it's 64 pages and available in paperback and ebook formats.
Everyone needs fun learning ideas for youngsters (and adults) in these bizarre days. Science and learning have always been my go-to stress and boredom busters whenever I have to stay home and can't go out. This collection is simple, full of easy to follow experiments and activities, and uses easy to find ingredients which most readers already have available around the house.
There are a number of activities which can be done by kids themselves without supervision. All safety information and tips are clearly delineated in the text. The tutorials themselves are accessible and written simply in easy to understand language. They're varied in scope and concepts including learning in physics, chemistry, cell biology (with a truly spiffy DNA isolation exercise), and interdisciplinary experiments.
The illustrations are simple and well done. They don't detract from the experiments. Each of the exercises has a list of ingredients, step by step instructions, and a "What's Happening" explanation of the relevant concepts at the end of each one. I didn't count how many were included in this book, but there must be close to 100. The tutorial measurements are given in American standard measures (pounds, cups, and so forth). There is also a very abbreviated index at the back of the book. It should be noted that these are *simple* experiments, and that some of them use quite a lot of easily sourced materials (several pounds of salt for one exercise).
This would make a super book for science homeschooling units or even online school instruction sessions.
Four stars.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
April 21, 2020
Awesome book of fun with all sorts of kitchen experiments. As a parent I was happy to see explanation of the (mess) experiments we were creating. The language and imagery hits the mark dead on for my 9 year old
June 2, 2024
As the sister book to Super Science Experiments: Cool Creations I had high expectations. Perhaps there was limited material left over.
August 22, 2020
This is a very exciting and informative book for children.
It aims to stack together simple experiments which teach young kids about science and its magic.
Experiments are simple.
They use common items available at home.
They are mostly done with the help of harmless tools.
Illustrations which accompany experiments are very helpful.
Exciting headings attract attention to each task immediately.
A very good book for gifting to a studios kid.
Thanks netgalley and publisher for review copy.
It aims to stack together simple experiments which teach young kids about science and its magic.
Experiments are simple.
They use common items available at home.
They are mostly done with the help of harmless tools.
Illustrations which accompany experiments are very helpful.
Exciting headings attract attention to each task immediately.
A very good book for gifting to a studios kid.
Thanks netgalley and publisher for review copy.
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