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Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Are you naturally curious about the world? You may want to become a scientist. Scientists train their brains to think in a questioning way about the world around them. With the help of the ideas in this book, you can start to think like a scientist too."--
2) Creepy crawlies and the scientific method: more than 100 hands-on science experiments for children
Author
Publisher
Fulcrum Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
"Using bugs, insects, and other critters, this book teaches children the five steps of the scientific method: question, hypothesis, methods, result, and conclusion."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Kids
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Make sure kids' first experience of the wonders of science is a thrilling eye-opener with this fun reference book. Fun activities, games, and simple experiments encourage interactive learning, showing kids that anyone can use scientific observation and experimentation to be a scientist and discover new things. With bright images and age-appropriate text, this book inspires kids to be curious, ask questions, and explore the world around them and maybe...
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Prepare to have your mind blown! As you explore ten of the world's greatest unsolved mysteries, you'll witness a UFO encounter, search for the lost city of Atlantis, tour a haunted house, and discover the kraken's true form. Along the way, you'll use the scientific method and sharp thinking to separate fact from fiction and explain the unexplainable. Learn how sightings of flying saucers and stories of alien abductions can be explained by sleep paralysis,...
Author
Series
Ada Lace adventures volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Author
Series
Acadia files volume 4
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Acadia Greene has done science in summer, autumn, and winter. In the fourth and final book of this series, she carries her search for answers into the spring, investigating meteors and mass extinctions; germination and pollinators; parasites, ticks, and Lyme disease; and pesticides and malaria. Finally, looking back through her notebooks, she puts together her scientific inquiries from all four seasons into a holistic understanding of the natural...
9) Ghost busted
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When Ada, Iggy, and Rosie have a sleepover at Iggy's house, they want to start with a game of ping-pong in the basement, but Iggy warns that the basement may be haunted.
Author
Series
Ada Lace adventures volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When eight-year-old Ada uses her love of science and technology to tinker with a ham radio, Nina hears sounds that she thinks are space aliens.
Author
Series
Charlotte the scientist volume 1
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte, a serious scientist and a bunny, uses the scientific method to solve her problem: being squished by her many brothers and sisters"--
12) Winter science
Author
Series
Acadia files volume 3
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A melting snowman leads her•of course!•to explore climate change and how to reduce her carbon footprint. The helium balloons at her eleventh birthday party beg questions•naturally!•of molecular structure, weights of gases,and neutral buoyancy. An afternoon making paper airplanes brings discoveries in aerodynamics. Tracks in the snow raise questions of how animals survive the winter. And an afternoon of sledding slides right into an investigation...
Author
Series
Ada Lace adventures volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Ada Lace is determined to win the robot-building competition but is struggling with her art class so she soon wonders if there might be a way to use both science and art to solve her problems.
14) Autumn science
Author
Series
Acadia files volume 2
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Acadia Greene is at it again. In the summer she used science to figure out who was raiding her blueberry bushes. Now she's leading a campaign to clean up a local pond; figuring out why leaves change color; learning about time zones and germs; and discovering why we might all be drinking dinosaur pee. "Conduct an experiment," her parents tell her whenever she has a new mystery to solve. "Use the scientific method." So Acadia does science. And so can...
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Many years ago, the color purple was available only to a privileged few because the process was very complicated and expensive. Then in 1856, a boy named William Henry Perkin was testing a hypothesis about a cure for malaria and found that his experiment resulted in something else--something vivid and rare for the times: synthetic purple. Perkin, a pioneer of the modern scientific method, made numerous advances possible, including canned food and...
Series
Olga (Elise Gravel) volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"One day, Meh and I will leave the Earth. We ll get away from all these annoying humans and find the planet where Meh was born. I m already working on my astronaut skills; but it would go much faster if Meh wasn t acting so strange. What s up with her?"-- cover page 4.
Series
Olga (Elise Gravel) volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discovering a smelly creature in her garbage can that she names after herself, Olga befriends and studies the eccentric Olgamus using the scientific method, the practices of Jane Goodall, and other scientific concepts.
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