Stomp Rockets, Catapults, and Kaleidoscopes. 30+ Amazing Science Projects You Can Build for Less than $1

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Kids will learn how things they encounter every day operate by building their own models with this hands-on activity book. Projects include building a working model of the human hand’s muscles, bones, and tendons using drinking straws, tape, and string; using a pair of two-liter bottles and a length of rubber tubing to learn how a toilet flushes; and discovering how musical instruments make sounds by fashioning a harmonica, saxophone, drum, flute, or oboe. All devices are designed to use recycled or nearly free materials and common tools. Kids are encouraged to modify and improve the designs, or create an entirely new device using the concepts explored. Each project includes materials and tools lists, step-by-step instructions with photographs, a summary of the science concept demonstrated, and follow-up questions to gauge student understanding for use in the classroom. Front Cover Copyright Acknowledgments Table of Contents Introduction A Note to Adults Electricity and Magnetism Holiday Light Circuit Crane Electric Car Electrostatics Magnetic Spinner Solenoid and Speaker Sound, Light, and Perception Chirping Bird and Cuica Musica: Saxophone, Harmonica, Guitar, Bull Roarer, Oboe, and Sucker Xylophone and Marimba Kaleidoscope Thaumatrope Mechanics Balancing Acts Catapult Dangling Spinner Mini-bot Rubber Band Racer Voladores de Papantla (“Birdmen of Papantla”) Fluids and Aerodynamics Airplanes Flying Fish Helicopters Hydraulic Butterfly Stomp Rockets Toilet Tornado Biology Eye Model Fingers of the Hand Heart Pump Lung Model Chemistry Cartesian Divers Oil on Water Gak and Oobleck Appendixes Bringing These Projects into the Classroom About the Watsonville Environmental Science Workshop Index