Provides instructions for 200 experiments in biology, chemistry, physics, earth science, and astronomy.

Describes sixty-five experiments using paper clips and other inexpensive supplies, demonstrating such basic physics and chemistry phenomena as weight, balance, flight, and surface tension.

Poems, brief stories, word games, and palindromes let children have fun with words and also learn various facts and concepts.

A collectio of magic tricks using science, including "The Floating Finger Trick, " "The Dollar Bill Bridge, " and "Egg on Edge."

Number tricks for children.

Teaches math through humorously illustrated riddles, covering addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and fractions.

Describes 101 science experiments or activities that can be done with household items and easily found ingredients.

"Kids will learn about the history of skyscrapers with Engineer It! Skyscraper Projects. They will discover how skyscrapers are built. Then, build their own mini skyscrapers using toothpicks, pretzels, and more. Each project has color photos and easy-to-follow instructions. Young crafters will be budding engineers in no time! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Applied to STEM Concepts of Learning Principles."--Publisher's...

Math rocks! At least it does in the gifted hands of Sean Connolly, who blends middle school math with fantasy to create an exciting adventure in problem-solving. These word problems are perilous, do-or-die scenarios of blood-sucking vampires (How many months would it take a single vampire to completely take over a town of 500,000 people?), or a rowboat of 5 shipwrecked sailors with a single barrel of freshwater (How much can they drink, and for how...