Janice VanCleave's Physics for Every Kid: 101 Easy Experiments in Motion, Heat, Light, Machines, and Sound

by Janice Van Cleave and Janice VanCleave

Book Overview

How do magnets work? What makes a curve ball curve? What keeps an airplane in the air? How can a pulley make you five times stronger? Now you can learn the answers to these and other questions about... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471525057
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.9" x 0.8" x 5.9"

Customer Reviews

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this is an excellent resource for teachers or parents. experiments are fun and easy to do.

This book makes learning physics fun!

I would highly recommend Janice VanCleave's Physics For Every Kid. I am a 6th & 7th grade science teacher and have used activities from this book numerous times. There are so many tough concepts in physics and sometimes all it takes is a simple activity that the kids can see. The way I use the activities in this book, along with the others in this series, are to set them up as stations and have the kids rotate through them. It's an easy way to create hands-on learning and the kids LOVE it! This book is divided up into these categories: electricity, magnets, buoyancy, gravity, balance, flight, simple machines, inertia, motion, light, heat, and sound. I think the activities in this book are intended for grades 4-6, but could be adapted for younger or older kids. You won't be disappointed!

Physics is Fun

This book is just right for introducing physics concepts to children in the 8-12yrs. age range. My students prefer learning the concepts by "doing" rather than by just reading about them in a science text.